# How Many Drake 2-Bs Were Ever Made? Counting Boatanchors with the German Tank Problem It started, as these things do, with Bill (N2CQR) thinking out loud. On an episode of the *SolderSmoke* podcast he wondered how many Drake 2-B receivers the R.L. Drake Company had ever actuall
A pencil-and-paper observation about the asymmetry of the borrowing algorithm.
An RSA SecureID Dongle Story
How many decimal places of π do you know? π is one of those numbers we call irrational . Rational numbers can be described as the ratio of…
Following on from my last post, I’ve been trying to read the voltage values that are generated from the random number generator I put together. I was initially using an arduino unit so I could control the voltage output down to below 1 volt. Ultimately I want to read the values w