Baofeng UV-5R: Availability

Looks like several people have received their UV-5R. I am still waiting on mine. And Matt @ AmateurRadio.com discovered that Import Communications will begin selling them next week for $65. Others are reporting that the Chinese dealers like 409Shop are currently out of stock.

Baofeng UV-5R: DTMF Confirmed

VK2AEC confirms via a post on the UV-5R Yahoo Group that the UV-5R has DTMF.

Poor Craftsman

It is a poor craftsman that blames his tools. I agree in general, but would add that the tools do matter - especially at the extremes of quality or skill.

Peyton Manning Press Conference

Baofeng UV-5R: DTMF

Impossible to know for sure until someone gets their hands on one, but it really looks like the UV-5R will have a DTMF capability.

First, we have this form in the UV-5R software:

And from the manual, we have these two sections. The first from the list of menu options and the second the detail about that menu option.

Larry the Bird

Turns out the Twitter bird has a name - Larry the Bird. I wonder if the Fail Whale has a name, too?

$500 Computer or $25 Computer

Pick our fruit:

Apple iPad 3 to be announced on March 7. Or get your Raspberry Pi now.

Jamming

Jamming mobile phones is bad enough, but disrupting speech!?!? Scary!

ExtremeTech link via Slashdot.org

Free Book

Tam reads a lot. Tam seems really smart. When Tam posts about a free Kindle version of a book, I download it.

"You're not on far, Juan Pablo Montoya!!!"

wesrucker247 "You're not on far*, Juan Pablo Montoya!!!" RT @BenVeazey90: @wesrucker247 Is it bad i thought of this? youtu.be/74Obm6bEH80 Mon, Feb 27 22:35:07 from TweetDeck

Video of the actual crash.

* In case you don't speak Southern, far = fire.