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December 22, 2011 08:05 pm PST
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Merry Grotemas!: A celebration in honor of the greatest radiofan who ever lived
Between1937 and roughly 1946 there was only one radio astronomer in the entire world:Grote Reber, an amateur from the Chicago suburbs. Reber was a HAM operator who worked in radio manufacturing. At night, he'd come home and tune into the stars, using a home-built telescope he erected in his backyard in Wheaton. It was the [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uEBdykOnTf8/merry-grotemas-a-celebration.html
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