The other day I commented on my recent purchase of a new headset, and my intention to use it on air. The following are some very rough notes on how to set it all up. There a couple of things I’ve discovered… one being, if you’re not careful with muting the microphone, it’ll generate a [...]
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The attacks on the US that occurred 11th September, 2001, killed 3000 people, injured about 7000, cost and less than a billion dollars. Maybe a little more when welfare payments and rebuilding is factored in. The US following the attacks was still going strong. The mismanagement that has lead to the current economic crisis will [...]
Today I splurged on a new toy. Previously, I had been frustrated by the complete lack of wireless headsets (bi-directional, not headphones which are listen-only), even to the point of wanting to homebrew one. On the advice of a number of people, I also gave Bluetooth a try — unsuccessfully I might add. Well it [...]
Hi All, My P4 laptop died recently, which is a pain as I now have to look at replacing it in the near future… however, this has meant I now have 2GB of DDR400 SODIMMS that can be used in the Lemote systems. There was a catch however. The PROM had to be flashed on [...]
I’ve had a 40m inverted-V dipole set up along the side of our house for as long as I’ve had the HF set. Prior to getting the ATU, I was restricted to 40m and 15m which are the resonant frequency bands. Once I acquired an ATU, I found I was able to tune up 80m… [...]
Here’s some humourous food for thought. Those of you in front of a Linux/Unix system, install fortune-mod and have a squiz at /usr/share/fortune/law — or just view this file that I have compiled. Looking around, I found some more from elsewhere. After you’ve stopped laughing… a query… How many of these laws are actually true? [...]
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