Blogospheric Refraction

The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in May, 2011

Without wishing to sound harsh, two words: Don’t bother. There are a few reasons why I’m not on FaceBook… Need First and foremost, is a matter of need. The primary reasons why someone would set up something on FaceBook is to enable their friends to be able to locate them on the Internet.  In my [...]

During the International Rally of Queensland, it was interesting to observe how people made use of the radios provided for the event. In fact, watching peoples’ behaviour to me, made it clear that none of them had any training in how to use one of these devices. And they all struggled, mostly as a result [...]

It’s okay, I know I live in my own strange little world but it’s okay because everyone here knows me! It takes just a little time on a boring Sunday afternoon …. … To really upset someone on Monday morning! (By way of David VK4KPM, cheers…)

This weekend just gone I was at Imbil helping out with the International Rally of Queensland, reporting scores for the car rally there.  This was my first look at packet radio in action.  Prior to this I had enabled the amateur radio options in the kernels I built, but never tried actually hooking radio to [...]

Well, this afternoon I decided to fix a couple of problems with the bicycle mobile… firstly, the mounting of one noisy headlamp.  I’ve re-done the mount using a more solid piece of plastic this time, so we shall see how it goes.  No noise on HF so things are looking up there.  I also fixed [...]