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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 [...]
Well, the antenna I tuned up in my last post, I can say, while it doesn’t work that great on 80m, it did get a contact into Victoria this evening on the AWNOI net. Terry VK2TEZ near Coffs Harbour gave me a 4-3 signal report, so still lots of room for improvement… part of that [...]
Well, been some time now since I announced the start of some µClibc stages. So far, not much has happened there other than the fact that I’ve successfully hard-locked the Fulong 2E system that I tried compiling on. This is despite compiling with binutils-2.21 and using -Wa,-mfix-loongson2f-nop… which is usually enough to prevent lockups. Clearly [...]
If you ever decide to put any kind of sensitive receiver on a bicycle, you’ll want to avoid this ugly duckling of the bicycle lighting world: These lights are great from the illumination point of view, and they’re not badly priced either. However, from an EMC viewpoint, they stink. I was given one as a [...]
Well, I figured I better post up pics and notes on the improved antenna design for my HF bicycle mobile station. I spent some time tuning it up today, and without resorting to the autotuner, I’ve successfully managed to tune up all bands available to me from 40m through to 6m. 80m still remains ellusive [...]
Well, I’ve done some tinkering with Gentoo/Prefix on MacOS X. Not bad so far, although there’s a lot of packages not keyworded… (a bit like MIPS) and some packages I miss from regular Gentoo (e.g. crossdev). However, we can work on sorting this out over time. For those of you who aren’t particularly fond of [...]
Well, today I got news that the Wireless Institute Australia has decided to change the cost of membership, not in the favourable direction either. This, on top of a $1 increase in our annual license fees (to $66/year), and substantially blown out costs for obtaining a license. For someone like myself, who is no longer [...]
Alrighty… AU$40 and two bus trips later later and I’ve now got MacOS X 10.6.3 installing. Interestingly, this MacBook’s DVD drive seemingly does not like this disc. Whilst waiting at the bus stop, I figured I’d fire up the machine and have a look at the disc. Powered on, inserted the disc, the moment it [...]
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