Knights QRSS on Twitter.

Today there has been some activity on Twitter using the tag #qrss.

It makes it more "live/real time" where qrg's can be changed within minutes. Propegations can be analyzed and so on.

Testing.. having fun.. you know the same old drill (8

I have been looking at Spectran running under wine on a FreeBSD box, using baudline as a reference.

Still need to port glfer to FreeBSD, it seems to working, though with some quirks

Old Sealed Pb battery

I got the 12V 17Ah battery out of my storage, but it wouldn't take charge that well.

Well I got an 50R dummy load, it got used as load, then added another one in parallel.

Charge using a regular car battery charger, then when it was full decharging using this load.

I have lost count of how many times i've done that so far. Though it seems to take longer and longer to decharge every time.

Now i have added in parallel 2 100R and one 160R power resisters.

It seems to how the power very well now.

With this load the current should be between ½A and 1A, not the highest, need to dig around to see if i have more power resistors laying around.

FreeBSD installer on USB Stick

This info was made by miwi though i found it on freebsdnews.net

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1

    bsdlabel -Bw da0 auto

    newfs -L FreeBSD /dev/da0a

    mdconfig -a -t vnode -f 8.0-HEAD-20090609-JPSNAP-i386-dvd1 -u 0

    mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt/iso

    mount /dev/da0a /mnt/USB-Stick

    cp -RvL /mnt/iso/* /mnt/USB-Stick/

    vi /mnt/USB-Stick/etc/fstab and put following in:

    /dev/ufs/FreeBSD / ufs ro 0 0

And it works (8

Playing with perler / pearls

Work in progress




This what we have to make it of




Lilgeek and I are working.

Just came across this page.

I was looking for something today and came across this page:

http://www.analog.com/en/analog-to-digital-converters/voltage-to-frequency-converters/products/rarely-asked-questions/RAQ_restaurant/resources/fca.html


It is not that last time i read RAQ's!!

40m trx aka ozie

Well some time back i decided to work on making a totally homebrewed 40m trx. Well so far i'm almost done with the vxo and buffer.

I should really document the experiments. There has been made versrions of vxo and buffer.

One way to join in on building of this i by catching me on IRC on #hamradio on Undernet.

This project is also to try different approches. Homebrewing here we come.

Goodies, not lost just

Was visiting my mother the other day. I just had to look for some electronic parts. What i discovered was "new" AM variable air capacitors some with two and some with three.
They could be used for atu's maybe other antenna related projects.