Well, today I was in town… getting some bits and pieces I’d need for my final year project at university. Among those things I needed, was a bottle of acetone, so I could clean off the etch-resistant ink used in the PCB making process. I popped into the hardware store, and quickly located what I [...]
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Well… this week for me has been a week of firsts for me. Last Sunday, I managed to make contact with Jason ZL2FT on the North Island of New Zealand. We were communicating using SSB on 40m — this is the first time I’ve successfully heard and contacted an overseas station. Okay, New Zealand isn’t [...]
The WIA sent me a very welcome letter today. As of today, I now have a Standard amateur radio license which entitles me to… Power: 100W PEP for SSB and CW (I’ll have to check for FM) Bands: 80m, 40m, 20m*, 15m, 10m, 6m*, 2m, 70cm, 23cm (* new bands) Digital Modes! (timely too … [...]
Hi all… I’ve been rather busy and thus haven’t had much time for Gentoo work, but today I managed to get some patches together that allow Firefox 3.0.1 to build and run on MIPS. The ebuild is as yet, unkeyworded, as I wish to do some further testing. I have successfully compiled it on little-endian [...]
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