Not too much new going on lately in my world of radio, but tonight I made my way over to the Zayante Fire Station for the monthly meeting of the San Lorenzo Valley Amateur Radio Club to check out one of their monthly meetings. Got to see or meet several of the people I [...]
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no [...]
I’ve been using Packet Radio so little that I keep forgetting what steps I need to take to connect with my Mac Powerbook and the Kenwood TH-D7, so I figured I’d scribble my notes below:
Here are some additional ways of tracking my position in Google Earth. To use these:
Fly to current position (Best when I’m on the move!)
Last 24 hours
Last 10 Days
Last 100 positions
After talking to several amateur radio operators during my week at Burning Man I overheard two people who were going to have a meeting near the “tripod statue” … the “War of the Worlds” statue. So I grabbed my radio, jumped on my bike, and headed out in that direction. It was pretty [...]
Easiest ways to find me are the following:
DB0ANF APRS Server:
Ugly, but has tons of information, and the best track log I’ve found.
http://www.db0anf.de/hamweb/aprsdb/showdata/KI6ESH-3/shmovements
GAPRS:
Just search for KI6ESH, it’ll map all related SSID’s. A good job of mapping and searching.
http://www.gaprs.net/
FindU:
The most popular APRS Mapping Site
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?ki6esh-3
Google APRS:
Shows all APRS data for an area, no search offered, [...]
Playing with the radio continues! Last week Ellen (KI6FEB) and Mark (KI6FEA) both passed their technician exams, I hoped they might take the test but I really never believed hey would! Following their successful completion of the exam we went to a class for new hams about emergency communications put together by [...]
A typical first blog comment… “I doubt I’ll post much… but I might as well get one started…”
Last night was fun, got my radio in the mail in the morning, got the GPS, played with it at lunch while eating with Ellen, then last night finally got the two to talk to each other and [...]