Lately I have been riding my bike … a lot. As in all the way into the Brisbane CBD and back again to my home at The Gap. Lately, my handheld, a trusty TH-F7E has also given up the ghost… previously this is what I used when bicycle mobile — had that thing on the [...]
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One thing that I’ve noticed is how inefficient most calculator apps on the desktop computer are. Not just from a computational point of view, but from a user interface point of view. It seems the vast majority of them are more of an exercise in UI element layout than in producing a practical computation application. [...]
At university, I’m currently studying a subject entitled “RF & Applied Electromagnetics”, and at the moment, we’re looking at the issue of electromagnetic compatibility. One thing that has come up both here, and browsing through the ARRL Amateur Radio handbook (I have the 1975 edition) is that above all, circuit layout has some of the [...]
Lately I’ve been looking around at microcontrollers. With my work with Eze Corp, I’ve gotten quite accustomed to the MSP430. It’s a nice little MCU, with a very low power drain, gcc port and is in general, quite easy to drive. At my workplace, I use a Windows XP machine to do development under MSYS, [...]
I just stumbled across this article, discussing the issues behind digital voice encoding at low bitrates. The use of AMBE in the D-Star protocol really does get up my nose, at best it’s distasteful, at worst, harmful. I’ve been doing some experimentation with Speex… so far my experimentations have been with bitrates above 12Kbps. Above [...]
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? [...]
Well, I spent much of my weekend fooling around with antennas in one form or another. I had taken down my HF rig to bring to the Brisbane Amateur Radio Club social — to sort out why it wouldn’t tune up on 10m… the problem turned out to be my power supply. I was using [...]
Seems I’ve coined a new term tonight… “faceborg”. Okay… seems others have come up with the same idea before me, as pointed out by others. Not sure what to call the MySpace users… I’m sure someone will come up with a succinct term for them. Ever since social networking sites such as MySpace and FaceBook [...]
I’ve been doing some thinking today. I haven’t been in the amateur radio gig very long… I got my license in mid January, and I’ve been active mostly on the 2m and 70cm bands for the past few months. The last month saw me acquire the parts needed for a HF station, and so lately [...]
I’ve been pondering this idea for a while now. When I’m at home, I like to listen to my music… and sometimes, talk to people using VoIP. One big bug-bear I have, however, is being tethered to a desk by the cord of a headset. Now… I basically have a few options: Cordless headphones (either [...]
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