Yes, I think I am funny with my little play on words.
Andy, OK1CDJ, has some good information about the UV-3R on his site. (If you cannot read Czech, Google Chrome will offer to translate or he has a Google Translate Widget on the sidebar.) He analyzes some antennas - including a disappointing result from a telescoping NA-773.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Improve Your Android GPS Performance
I've not had any real problems with using RunKeeper on my Android phone, but it usually exaggerates the distance somewhat as it depends on the phone's GPS. For people that are having a lot of problems, Lifehacker has some suggestions to improve the GPS performance.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
You know it is cold...
You know it is cold when you walk into the data center and it seems warmer than the offices.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Learn to Code 2
In addition to the Code Year project, Lifehacker has their Learn to Code: The Full Beginner's Guide available in 5 parts. I always learn better when I have multiple sources. Different books/courses/instructors complement each other and help me fill in the weak spots.
Repeater Primer
From Stu (G3OCR) on the Wouxun KG-UVD1 Yahoo Group gives a repeater primer on the various burps/chirps/tones/beeps/dits/dahs/buzzes you might hear:
"The tone is commonly referred to as a "K" tone, because all repeaters used to be programmed to send a Morse __ _ __ (letter K, the Morse code abbreviation for "over to you") to let you know that the other station had finished transmission and the time-out timer had been reset. A lot of repeaters these days use a letter T (one dash) instead, but there are other variants too.
Other tones used sometimes are an "access tone", which is a bit of history as a 1750 tone-burst used to be (and sometimes still is) required by the repeater at the start of a transmission to stop unmodulated carriers opening the repeater and possibly keeping it open.
The 118Hz tone you refer to is called a CTCSS (Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System), sometimes called a PL-Tone in other countries like USA. This can be one of a number of low-audio tones (sub-audible) and these are usually chosen to avoid a station inadvertently opening up a repeater half a state away as well as your local one, if there's a "lift".
So there you have (wanted or not!) a quick rundown on the terms for the different tones relating to repeaters."
Bye-bye Dooley?
With Wilcox and Sirmon gone, is Dooley next? Clay Travis thinks so and lists his Top 10 candidates. He is wrong about #3 in his list:
3. Peyton Manning
I would publicly offer the head coaching job to Peyton Manning in the event he doesn't want to take the health risk of returning to the NFL.
In fact, I'd even put Manning at the top of this list if it was my call.
Give him the offense and persuade John Chavis to come back and take over the defense under another Tennessee grad head coach.
Are you telling me that Manning wouldn't have the top quarterbacks in the country every year? Can you imagine what a home visit from Peyton Manning would be like?
This is every Tennessee fan's secret dream, that one day Peyton Manning will return to Knoxville and take back over the Vol football program. His injury may have just accelerated the timetable.He is wrong about this being a secret dream. We say it loud and proud.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
2012 Goals
Healthly, wealthy, and wise:
Run a marathon, pay off my student loan, and earn my Extra Class ticket.
Run a marathon, pay off my student loan, and earn my Extra Class ticket.
Code Year - Learn to code in 2012
 parislemon Screw your other new years resolutions -- learn to code! (nice new initiative from Codecademy) codeyear.com #codeyearSun, Jan 01 18:44:20 from Tweet Button retweeted by arrington |
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