Funny Repeaters

Dan, AE5DW, has a post about some funny repeater IDs and includes MP3 recordings. One of which is the W4KEV repeater here in Knoxville that I posted about in July of 2011.

To Infinity and Beyond!

The latest space suit from NASA. It should look familiar to Toy Story fans.

Via The Blaze

QKC

On the lighter side, a new Q code for kerchunking:

"QKC: I am kerchunking the repeater

QKC?: Are you kerchunking the repeater?"

Merry Christmas

Baofeng UV-5R: BF-F8+

Baofeng has introduced a new BF-F8+. It looks very similar to a UV-5R, but they advertise an enhanced LCD screen:

BF-F8+ series two-way radio are the newest styles by BAO FENG, it has multi-functions, such as dual band, dual display, dual watch, its performances are excellent, the shape is fashionable. The background is very unique, make it look elegant and luxurious.

It looks good. The only problem is that the listing on 409Shop ($51 USD) doesn't have the same screen. The radio is marked as a BF-F8+. Somebody is wrong.

Thanks to Hans for pointing out the BF-F8+ to everyone.

Chromebooks

Two posts today about Google Chromebooks... more momentum for the cloud.

Mike really likes his and Martin is trying one, too.

Good Guy

A very professional and mature response to a difficult situation.

Josh_Ward Strength coach Ron McKeefery blogs about recently being fired at Tennessee - bit.ly/SQ6C1o (h/t @Volquest_Paul)Sun, Dec 09 17:38:40 from TweetDeck

High Frequency Trading and Radio

Hopefully, the people using microwave to do high frequency trading don't have any woodpeckers around.



Acorn video via The Rest of Me

Seinfeld Today

I've often thought that many of the conflicts in a typical Seinfeld episode would have been easily resolved if all the characters had easy access to a mobile phone. One person had gone a step further and imagined what the story lines might be if the show was produced today: Seinfeld Today.

The modern problems would include Elaine being banned for a critical Yelp review, Kramer getting into a fight with an Apple Genius, George's parents start using Skype, etc.

Best

Best Morse Decoder - maybe I should look into that since I can't even spell – · – ·  · – – .

China's Best (and Worst) Ham Gear from Hans