Blogospheric Refraction

The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in July, 2010

Well, I’ve been riding a lot between West End and The Gap, and I get a lot of questions from people on the band about my setup. I was doing some repairs… one of the wires to the PTT had disconnected, luckily there was a 0V return via other connections… and so while I had [...]

It has been a long time between drinks for Gentoo/MIPS… but at last, I’ve managed to get something rolling, and hopefully I should have some stages out by the end of the year. What took me so long? A number of packages didn’t want to compile… particularly python-2.6 and gcc-4.4. The former exhibited various compiler [...]

Well there it is… this is the contact made using the bicycle mobile station… with little more than a mobile CB whip. That arrived in the mail this evening. Time for me to investigate ways of tuning this antenna properly though, rather than making the auto-tuner do all the hard work.

I was just reading back through the posts on Gentoo Universe… and Diego’s post regarding Free Software Washing Machines caught my eye. There are many benefits for why free software firmware would be good… However, you’ve got to convince the marketeers and management of such companies that this is a good idea. This is not [...]