I was most delighted to find my little Reaching Escape Velocity book mentioned in the pages of my favorite magazine — creative makers were exactly the readers I had in mind when writing it. The book covers the art of working with sponsors, volunteers, and media in order to launch audacious gonzo engineering projects… and is…

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QST has always been the quintessential magazine of amateur radio, predating me by decades. As such, like all other hams, I’m dabbling in things that have long kept paleogeeks up all night… probing the ether and chasing those elusive DX (long-distance) stations. Of course, some of the things I’ve done with radio have been a…

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The premiere issue of this wonderful UK magazine carried a short review of my book about the BEHEMOTH and Microship projects… Book review by Peter Eland Velo Vision — Issue #1 March, 2001 Many readers will remember Steve Roberts book Computing Across America, and no doubt other magazine articles about his amazing computer-equipped long-wheelbase recumbent,…

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In Pursuit of Picasso #5 in the Cyber.kdz series by Bruce Balan In a curious twist, I got to be a fictional character… thanks to Bruce Balan, a long-distance sailor and author. This series of six books, released in the late ’90s, was aimed at young hack-savvy readers and related the adventures of the Internet-connected…

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This short commentary on my book was published the month after the author’s ConneXions piece about BEHEMOTH. Computing Across America: The Bicycle Odyssey of a High-Tech Nomad by Steven K. Roberts Learned Information, Inc. (Medford, NJ: 1988) 347 pp., ISBN 0-938734-18-0 reviewed by Carl Malamud ConneXions Volume 6, Number 9 September, 1992 Normally, we don’t…

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This is my short review in 73 Magazine about a little book from the iconic Bob Heil, K9EID, packed with useful ideas and mini-essays about amateur radio. I was a columnist for the magazine at the time, writing about the bicycle projects, and every now and then would review a book or product for my…

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This is a book review of Computing Across America (by Steven K. Roberts, shown in the photo above at age 1), focusing on the author being an adoptee who tracked down and reconnected with his biological parents back in 1980. The reviewer makes some very interesting observations, and this was published in a newsletter of…

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A view of Steven K. Roberts N4RVE’s book. Review by Alida M. Jatich KA9KAG 73 Magazine November, 1989 “Suburbia is not a place; it’s a state of mind… You live in suburbia when the cycle of work and play becomes dangerously unbalanced in favor of work.” (Computing Across America, page 3.) If you’re like me, there…

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I don’t know this publication, but have to chuckle at the comment near the end in which they say I must have a thesaurus with which I choose big words for effect. I have found that such comments only come from folks who are a bit vocabulary-challenged… they even misspelled “recumbant.” I last owned a…

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