Using a Revolution MX mouse on Windows 11

Computer Stuff

If ever there was a best computer mouse in the world, it’s the Logitech MX Revolution. “Was” because they were discontinued in 2009, with subsequent offerings never quite measuring up to its standard. I had lost the receiver dongle several years ago and have been using a much newer MX Master 2S, until last week, when whilst emptying my laptop bag found the dongle! Happy days! Unfortunately running under Windows 11 has required quite the journey, so am documenting this for the next time I need to re-install.

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Humming, Trains and the Joys of Zero-Beating

Amateur Radio

We’ve all heard the term “zero-beat”. “Please zero-beat to me”, or “when listening to two stations that are zero-beat, I don’t know who’s who” or “to bust the pile-up, make sure you don’t zero-beat”. In modern parlance, people just mean “exactly match the frequency”. To “zero-beat” however does refer to a specific technique with some interesting physics behind it.

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