The problem For some time now, we’ve been putting up with interference from a few stations, who for now will remain nameless. Foul language, deliberate interference, the list goes on… Allegedly some of these people have been doing it for longer than I’ve been alive. It is as if, these people, believe we are not [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
This is a question raised on an earlier post of mine. It’s an interesting comparison between radios and mobile phones. And some are of the belief that all you do with a radio, is talk on it, or that mobile phones can completely replace radios. Rather than respond there, I’ve decided there’s enough content there [...]
The following was a news article that I intended to record and have included in this week’s WIA National News service, however I had problems cutting it down to the 1:30 required. So, I’ve put in additional information that there wasn’t time for, and I intend to put in a short piece for next week’s [...]
A thought just occurred to me… With addressing in IPv6, there’s enough addresses to cover every square metre of the earth’s surface with something like 100 addresses or so. Not sure if a standard exists for mapping geographic co-ordinates to addresses, but one just occurred to me that I might try some day. The Maidenhead [...]
Well, I’m not sure where to ask this, I did ask on the netdev mailing list and while I don’t think it’ll get ignored indefinitely, I’m not sure that was the right place. A stab in the dark if you will. In the hope of netting more answers though, I cast this query into the [...]
I picked up a few new toys recently. I’ve been looking around for a small microcontroller based device to act as a combined remote face / DTMF generator for my FT897D. The idea is that this device could interface with the FT897D via its CAT port, and allow me to adjust the frequency and mode, [...]
One thing I do enjoy is bicycle mobile operation… that is, operating the radio whilst traveling on the bicycle. One significant barrier to this is battery life however. So far I’ve stuck with 13.8V 9Ah gel cell batteries. These are far from ideal, but are pretty good for the price. They are lighter and cheaper [...]
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 [...]
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