The rechargeable clock battery in my Icom IC-7300 eventually stopped holding enough charge between uses. Because the original cell is surface-mounted and the charging circuit complicates replacement with an ordinary coin cell, I explored a few practical ways to preserve the radio’s clock without making…

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running PiAware to receive ADS-B transmissions from aircraft in the area and feed that data to FlightAware. It provides a real-time view of traffic approaching and departing Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, especially from my location beneath runway 12R approach,…

Airport was released in 1970 and was filmed in part at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport (MSP). Because of that local connection—and because the film helped define the 1970s disaster-movie genre—it has always been an interesting part of the airport’s history. I wrote a more detailed…