Spring cleaning. (in the middle of the winter)

Just moved.

So as things are put into place they are being evaluated, to be placed on shelf etc or long time storage (The local recycle place).

I have alot of PCB's with just one or two components on that i might could use some other time.

So this evning some time was spent on desoldering some of these components to be able to discard the rest of the PCB.

A 150W gutter soldering irong works, though not for relays and things that size.

What I mainly has harvested has been switches, high voltage caps 3.5 mm female jacks.

Also got a couple of shelfs put together for a place for some of my instruments.

The main idea .. more room for usable "stuff" and get rid of the rest.

.. easy said .. hard to do ..

Sprat-on-CD + IPhone + Aji Reader PDF + local webserver = Sprats on IPhone

I received my copy of "Sprat-on-CD" yesterday.

First thought was how to read them when away from my computer.

Second made a backup copy to an USB flash stick.

I do not own an ereader, though i do own an IPhone 3G .. think think ..
Into Appstore i went for a PDF reader that could download/fetch PDF documents from a web server.
I chose the Aji Reader PDF, mainly due it is free (8

Due to i'm running FreeBSD on my computers i had to setup a webservice, i chose cherrypy and compased a small index function.

Basicly any webserver that can produce an index and server the files can be used.

Go to "Fetch" enter the address on the webserver.

145 taps later I now have Sprat issues 1 to 140 on my IPhone to read when ever I like.

What I have learned about the Aji Reader PDF is as follows:
1) When restarting the app it starts where one last read in a PDF.
2) Zoom to prefered view, then tap once about in the middle of the screen, then tap on the unlocked lock, it will now show up af locked, this means that one can only scroll up/down even when the finger scrolling is now straight up or down. To undo do the same as when locking.

This app could also be used for datasheet and so on.

QRSS on 80m just now

Aquried with baudline the base qrg is 3.599.000Hz

VFO design page.

I stumbled upon this page: Basic RF Oscillator by Harry Lythall - SM0VPO

Harry has made a lot of simple to understand pages/articles on his website.

Morse code ..

It takes time to learn, as we have a 19 months old and about to move it is at a halt again )8

WebSDR ..

This is listening to radio without a radio:
WebSDR

It is a great service

dxzone links

Here is a few links from today:
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~jwp/radio/software/loading.html
http://ecosse.org/jack/radio/software/newcoil3.html