Deepak @deepak_pathak

When I was a kid, bedtime was 9 pm. I couldn't wait to be a grownup so I could go to bed anytime I wanted. Turns out that is 9 pm.

More pics from RI1FJL crew as they sail to Heiss Island, their final destination.

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In the 1971 war, India lost a warship at sea. Its sonar had not been able to find the submarine that sank it. India then tried to buy better sonar. The countries that made it would not sell. So the Navy told one of its own officers to build it himself. His name is Arogyaswami Paulraj. He was born in Pollachi, a small town in Tamil Nadu. He joined the Indian Navy as a teenager and stayed for about 30 years. The Navy spotted him early and sent him to the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi for a master's degree. His professors told the Navy not to stop there. He finished a doctorate. After the 1971 war he was given the sonar problem. He had no foreign help, no foreign equipment and no permission to buy either. His team built the system from the ground up. It was called APSOH. It went into the fleet in 1983. It was not a compromise. It is still considered one of the best sonars in the world. He went on to set up 3 national research laboratories in India, in computing, artificial intelligence and military electronics. India gave him the Padma Bhushan. Then he left the Navy and joined Stanford University in America as a postdoctoral researcher, starting again at the bottom. While running wireless experiments there, he noticed something odd in his results about how signals could be separated from one another. He followed it. What came out of it is called MIMO. In simple terms, instead of one antenna sending and one antenna receiving, you use several at both ends at once, and the signals stop fighting each other and start carrying far more data. That is the foundation of every WiFi connection and every 4G and 5G phone on the planet. The chairman of the Marconi Society put it plainly. Every WiFi router and 4G phone today uses MIMO technology pioneered by him. He founded a company on it, which Intel bought. He founded another, which Broadcom bought. He holds around 80 patents. He has the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the Faraday Medal, and a place in the United States National Inventors Hall of Fame. The internet in your house is running on his idea right now, and almost nobody in this country knows his name.

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🎯🎯 @NMenonRao: “The Republic is an argument against the idea of the indispensable man. It argues that institutions matter more than personalities and that power must remain accountable to something larger than itself. Democracies require visionaries, but they also require sceptics. The tragedy of personality cults is that they encourage us to outsource our judgment and to mistake admiration for patriotism. They tempt us into believing that history is made by singular heroes rather than by the often invisible labour of millions of ordinary men and women. The true measure of a republic is not whether it can produce extraordinary leaders. It is whether it can renew itself without becoming dependent on them”

Birender Dhanoa @bsdhanoa

4 weeks ago

An excellent and timely reminder by @NMenonRao on why the personality cult and the idea of an indispensable man is detrimental to democracy.

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Next stop is Franz Josef Land #ri1fjl dx-world.net/ri1fjl-franz-j…

@volklub @chiragbarjatya GLA ka torque aur one hand driving bhi kaaran ho sakte hain 🙂

@DX_World Have they departed?

@dg1182 @#$% tum zinda ho?

🚀 CW4EVER Callsign Trainer – Update! 🚀 Top active operators 🥇 Mlade YT6W – 2,200+ sessions (CW & CW Pile-Up focus) 🥈 Fernando PY4BZ – 2,000+ sessions (SSB & Typing) 🥉 Martin LU5DX – active across all modes Great to see so many operators improving their skills daily!

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

Time to stop taking Gautam Gambhir-ly

Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket

2 months ago

We can confirm that we don't wish to add Gautam Gambhir to our coaching staff. He clearly has talent, though. To take those Indian players and deliver those results in Ireland takes truly remarkable gifts.

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(comic) Lowering attrition

FM radio is dying. So is the joy of accidentally hearing a song you once loved vogue.in/content/fm-rad…

@vu2lbw Awesome! Very well done 😊

What if I told you that in 2006, astronauts aboard the International Space Station took an old spacesuit, filled it with electronics, and threw it into space? Not as trash. As a satellite. This is the incredible story of SuitSat—the spacesuit that became a spacecraft. 🧵 (1/n)

You can barely buy a flat in Mumbai for this price. In Tuscany, you can buy the entire hill.

Tim @TimurNegru

4 months ago

Someone is selling an entire hill in Tuscany. 45 hectares, for €1.3M ($1.5M). That's 111 acres of southern Tuscan countryside with a 500m² stone farmhouse on top, 9 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a pool, and an outdoor wood-burning oven. The estate sits at 400m altitude on a privately

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Separation Confirmed! The world's first OptoSAR Satellite is now in space. Made in India for the world. Go Drishti! Go @GalaxEye! Go India!

Five years ago, the team at @GalaxEye were students at IIT Madras, chasing what many would have called an “outrageously ambitious” dream. Yesterday, they launched Mission Drishti, the world’s first OptoSAR satellite. There’s a simple but powerful lesson here: leapfrogging the world begins with a leap of faith. By combining optical and radar imaging into a single platform, they didn’t just improve on what existed, they reimagined what was possible. They’re showing us that the way to take a place on the global stage, is not by catching up, but by changing the game. They’re my #MondayMotivation

GalaxEye @GalaxEye

4 months ago

Separation Confirmed! The world's first OptoSAR Satellite is now in space. Made in India for the world. Go Drishti! Go @GalaxEye! Go India!

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@mumbaiheritage Bombay Docks explosion and gold bars landing on roofs