This charming bit of rubbish on a bottle of Innocent orange juice scored in Eyemouth:
I miss British advertising copy …
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
for mac-owning light sleepers
A UK 50p coin is just perfect for blocking the snooze light on a MacBook:
Those seven sides stop it rolling away.
RIP Jack
my inital impression of MS Office 2010
UncleWiki
For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on UncleWiki, a wiki about the Uncle books, by J. P. Martin. It’s a very rough framework right now, but I’m adding content as I go. Please join in!
Cheapo CW key
Cheapo morse key (an Ameco K-4, $20 from Ham Radio Outlet) mounted on a $4 piece of wooden moulding.
Back from AZ
Ham Radio Talk links
The ham radio talk went quite well last week; the usual TLUG (and Perl Mongers) suspects plus a couple of knowledgeable hams. For some reason, LibreOffice didn’t format the links correctly, so here they are as real links:
- Industry Canada – Amateur Radio Service — http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf01709.html
- Radio Amateurs of Canada — http://rac.ca/
- Industry Canada – Amateur Radio Exam Generator — http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf05378.html
- Repeater Operator – Toronto FM Communications Society — http://tfmcs.com/
- Western New York/Southern Ontario Repeater Council — http://www.wnysorc.org/
- Internet Radio Linking Project — http://www.irlp.net/
- Asterisk Open Source Telephony Projects — https://www.asterisk.org/
- EchoLink — http://www.echolink.org/
- Linux Amateur Radio AX.25 HOWTO (very outdated) — http://tldp.org/HOWTO/AX25-HOWTO/
- APRS: Automatic Packet Reporting System — http://aprs.org/
- Google Maps APRS — http://aprs.fi/
- Local supplier: Durham Radio — http://www.durhamradio.com/
- Local supplier: Radioworld — http://www.radioworld.ca/
- Local antenna supplier: Maple Leaf Communications — http://mapleleafcom.com/
- Yaesu FT857 Programming Software — http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/ft857mm/
- Handheld VHF/UHF radios and software: Wouxun — http://wouxun.com/
- Fldigi — http://www.w1hkj.com/Fldigi.html
- The Official PSK31 WWW Homepage — http://aintel.bi.ehu.es/psk31.html
- PSK Reception Map — http://www.pskreporter.info/pskmapn.html
- Hellschreiber: Feld Hell Club — https://sites.google.com/site/feldhellclub/
- RTTY history (including the gleefully demented Internet Teletype) — http://www.rtty.com/
- WSJT Home Page — http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/
- Olivia … the Magical Mode — http://www.oliviamode.com/
- Arduino CW Keyer — https://radioartisan.wordpress.com/arduino-cw-keyer/
- ARRL’s Logbook of the World — https://p1k.arrl.org/lotw/default
- eQSL Electronic QSL Card Centre — http://www.eqsl.cc/
- WebSDR: online SDR listening — http://www.websdr.org/
- SoftRock Radio Kits — http://kb9yig.com/
- WB5RVZ Softrock Software Defined Radio — http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/
- Scarborough Amateur Radio Club — http://ve3we.org/
analogue photo transfer over radio
Last night I picked up a weird signal on 14.074 MHz that wasn’t quite Olivia, and wasn’t quite Contestia. After a while I worked out it was MFSK16; but only after I started calling CQ nearby in Olivia and the original caller, Don (W5VRX) in Arlington, TX, told me what it was.
Don told me that MFSK could send pictures, and that Fldigi supported it well. It’s a bit slow, can be subject to noise, but you can get quite clean results. Here’s what Don sent me:
#nookfail
Got a couple of spare NOOKcolor Charging Cables, since (grar! gnash!) it uses its own special twist on the USB Micro-B connector that just doesn’t work with anything else. They came in a middling size box, and then each cable was packaged thus:
That’s a 120×75mm box with 70×70mm blocked out, leaving only 50mm for the cable. Stay wasteful, Barnes & Noble …
essential index cards
GTALUG: Ham Radio & Linux
I’m talking about radio next week at TLUG. More deets: Meetings:2011-08 – GTALUG.
The slides are here: http://scruss.com/talks/02011/radio/