QST DE WA7NWP

UI-Webserver

2012-01-29T13:10:00.000-08:00

1/29/11 Update - the UI-View maps quit working and thus the Webserver display. A simple update and refocus of the _PA7RHM map server using the updater was all that was necessary to fix it. We still need a source of local or cached maps but this keeps things going. BVThis is an update of a preliminary post on using UI-Webserver and the start of more detailed information describing how to use

Tracking the Home Station

2012-01-29T11:40:00.000-08:00

Yes - there are uses for a GPS on the home packet radio station.... Least of which is tracking the house after an earthquake.(lots to be added)GPS 353 from Amazon.Tried at Brunch. Bob did it first and everything worked fine on his laptop and my little white ASUS netbook.Thanks to Bob/K7OFT for the reference to Visual GPS - it's a handy too.Put on KVID - the packet machine.Hard time getting

New Project Starting - Portable Server with Packet

2012-01-25T17:16:00.000-08:00

I've long sought the practical portal group server with Ham Radio Packet and Wifi access for the various brunches and ham fest meetings. The plan and tasks for Revision A (or W?) of the server have been assigned a list in the Remember The Milk task tool. Stay tuned to this blog page for updates and details. Bill

Back to the APRSHOG - Out with the moving, in with the objects.

2011-11-05T09:10:00.000-07:00

Hard to believe it was back in August that I started putting in special handling for Moving packets which I didn't get finished. So the links have been broken for about three months - and nobody noticed. Or cared enough to mention it. Oh well - I'm the biggest user and I didn't feel the need to get it fixed. So now the listing of locally heard and archived moving packets is back onto the

Portable Server Progress

2011-06-30T22:38:00.000-07:00

A little white netbook is getting more and more functionality as a portable, in a big plastic box -- take it and go, portable radio server. While the eventual setup will be a true NIX server of some sort, this is a Windows XP system. Much functionality is coming from the UI-View addons. Tonight I added the pa7rhm map server. The Tiny Web Pages will, no doubt, be added in the near future.

9600 Baud Packet Radio - some of the theory....

2011-03-25T16:45:00.001-07:00

Some 9600 baud packet radio theory:There are a couple of things you need to look out for when attempting to use a radio for 9600 bps. First with AC vs DC coupling, you can get yourself into trouble both ways. With AC coupling, you have to make sure that the transient across the coupling capacitor(s) dies out before the preamble is done and the receive modem has locked up. If not as the

APRSHOG Active Display

2011-03-23T18:12:00.000-07:00

Who's active on APRS in the area right now? The Active page of the APRSHOG program provides a snapshot into local activiy.

bpq32 Mail Chat BBS

2011-03-02T20:21:00.000-08:00

The BPQMailChat Amateur Packet system is developing nicely. Started using the remote access terminal last week and this week I've been hooking up the 'real' Email and News client to the packet system.. Should have done that with JNOS years ago.73Bill

Testing testing...

2011-03-02T09:29:00.000-08:00

As cozy as Facebook is, it still doesn't bring the posts together in one place. While Blogger is still in the cloud, at least it's a way to hold closer to ones own comments. So I think I'm going to use two blogs, for the personal and the geeky, for the more significant postings. Then FB's RSS scraper will pick up and publish the postings. For now I'm testing the technology and trying to

Upcoming Technician/General Course at Seattle American Red Cross

2010-10-08T17:15:00.000-07:00

From PNWVHF reflector - http://groups.google.com/group/PNWVHFSThe American Red Cross Communications Team will be holding a LicenseExam Preparation Course for the Technician and General Class AmateurRadio Licenses. The course is open to people without a license andthose seeking to upgrade to General.Class Starts: 11/2/2010Class Night: Tuesdays from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PMSpecial Optional Study Day: 12/

D-STAR WORKSHOP RETURNS TO FEDERAL WAY

2010-10-03T21:35:00.000-07:00

Back by popular demand! Another D-STAR workshop is being presented in Federal Way on Saturday November 20th from 9am to 5pm at the City of Federal Way Community Center. Topics presented at the workshop include "Getting Started with D-STAR", "Gateways, Reflectors, & Ratflectors", Northwest D-STAR Repeaters, and various hands on labs. John Davis-WB4QDX will be the keynote speaker for the

[network105] Just a reminder on packet parameters

2010-09-27T13:44:00.001-07:00

From: Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:40 PMSubject: [network105] Just a reminder on packet parametersTo: network105@yahoogroups.comWelcome to our newest members!I usually send out a reminder every so often just with a few guidelines to make sure we're all on the same page with parameters and network operation. Everything is covered in detail in Burt's intro text

Another 30 Meters APRS Test Starting on Wed 22 Sept

2010-09-22T09:46:00.001-07:00

Update to the original posting. Here's the spots of WA8LMF-63 heardby WA7NWP-63 this morning:20100922141945,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3412.21N/11858.84W>Mobile!20100922142544,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3413.25N/11905.43W>20100922143546,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3415.55N/11915.18W>20100922143952,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3417.01N/11919.12W>Mobile!20100922145050,WA8LMF-63>

testing testing 1 2 3

2010-02-10T11:14:00.000-08:00

Is this working? It's been a long time. Now that the wiki is back I'm finding a need for blog postings longer then 140 characters.

Re: BPQ BBS - GMail as the univeral mail ISP

2009-08-05T11:02:00.001-07:00

> The second part of the BPQ-BBS is the ISP function allowing> E-Mail to be sent to and From the BBS, an E-Mail host will> be needed to keep the BBS Call sign correct, an example> Would be n9pmo.com, you can setup a separate E-Mail Account> with your ISP Server how ever The @Call Sign will be replaced> with the Senders E-Mail Address, this is an Example of> Using my E-Mail Account, n9pmo@(

FYI - BPQ BBS

2009-08-05T10:54:00.001-07:00

Finally - some modern software... Even I'm finding it harder to stretch the usefulness of JNOS due to some rough edges..73Bill - WA7NWP---------- Forwarded message ----------From: MikeDate: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:00 AMSubject: RE: [BPQ32] Re: BPQ BBS >JTo: BPQ32@yahoogroups.comThe BPQ-BBS is A 3 part program, The BBS forwarding setup issimilar to Winpack as far as the Forwarding is setup,BBS (

Mike and Key Swapfest

2009-03-07T22:47:00.000-08:00

Puyallup was great fun this year. I'm still hunting for an ICOM speaker but my other treasures were cool. Big purchase was an ICOM discone which I'll put to use right away. Always need more antennas. A 12 V lcd monitor for the mini-ITX, a KAM+ and a old TenTec PM-1 joined the collection. It was the first time I had to make four trips to the car.. Getting smart in my old age and moved

Little Green JNOS..

2009-02-19T21:50:00.000-08:00

How about that - JNOS runs on the OLPC XO!This is a bit cheating, it's running on Ubuntu 8.10 which is installed on a 4 GB SD.

Speed of light...

2008-11-26T00:13:00.000-08:00

Let's see - today's the 25'th. It was on the 19th that Goggle said they'd review this spam blog. I'm not impressed with either their spam checking tools or their speed.. Get one or the other right...

Spam Blog

2008-11-19T10:47:00.000-08:00

I'll all for stamping out spam of all sorts and I have great respect for the daunting task Google and Blogger.com have to deal with - but gosh guys - if you flag a simple little blog like this one as a spam blog, your tools need tweaking.

More memory...

2008-10-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

My home XP-Pro 'workstation' started with 256 MB back in 2003. A couple years later I spent another $95 to add 512 MB. That 768 MB worked fine until a couple months ago when I moved my Linux server from a dedicated box to a VMWare virtual system on the XP box. A bit of fine tuning on the memory allocation mimized the swapping of the XP applications but it was easy to tell both systems were

Morse Code - the original digital mode

2008-08-31T10:49:00.000-07:00

Good stuff on the code: Learn CW Online - This website features include High score rankings, Discussion forum, Text to CW and a KOCH based CW learning course.FISTS - the International Morse Preservation SocietyStraight Key Century Club - Straight Key Corse Code OperatorsCW Blasphemy - doing CW without knowing CW.... A group dedicated to the infamously unpopular use of software to decode and

XLPC with Ubuntu

2008-08-15T23:05:00.000-07:00

The One Laptop is of minimal use with it's SUGAR OS. Ubuntu will make it a real tool... Maybe Sunday I'll get Ubuntu installed on my new 4 GB SDHC card ($30 + tax from Costco today) hopefully the SDHC will work with the XO...ReferencesUbuntu MobileUbuntu On OLPC XO by laptop.orgIan's story of installing Ubuntu on XOUbuntu Netbook Remix - made for the little PC'sFree Like GNU did itAnother

Amateur Radio Licensing

2008-08-13T13:46:00.000-07:00

I read about this no nonsense General class license study guide at the AJ4IJ Hame Radio Internets blog.I have to get the Wiki back online - this would make more sense there then on a blog posting. At least the wiki should have the overall summary.

Remote Radio Operation

2008-08-11T13:25:00.000-07:00

Another blog page being used as a scratch pad for a project being worked on.http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/extras/using_waveLink.htmham radio deluxe.

VHF is High Fun

2008-08-09T21:32:00.000-07:00

Start of some VHF and UHF notes...http://www.on4kst.info/chat/index.php

Favorite Antenna Sites

2008-08-08T09:58:00.001-07:00

Here's a (start of) a list of my favorite antenna sites:www.astromag.co.uk/j-pole - a 6 meter J-Pole made from 450 ohm twinleadwww.wb8erj.com/bike-ant - a 2 meter J-Pole made from RG-58 coax instead of the convential design using 300 ohm twinlead. This is essentially what I use taped to my bicycle safety flag.

Good Things Radios Amateurs are doing

2008-07-16T09:43:00.000-07:00

International Health Services of MN supporting medical/dental/eye care teams for 10 day missions in Honduras with Winlin e-mail over the past 5 years.

Operating Links

2008-07-14T15:24:00.000-07:00

A list of links to support on the air operation...VHF DX Spotsmore soon..

FLdigi and amateur radio

2008-07-11T14:50:00.000-07:00

This exposure to Amateur Radio by the general Linux public is what we need more of... Fldigi and amateur radio on LinuxOn a sad note, the author of that article recently became a silent key(board)...

HT Counterpoise

2008-06-13T13:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a web page by K6GPH with a couple good ideas for building an HT counterpoise..Use the spade connector so the wire is easily detachable.Use different lengths of wire for different bands

Too many toys or too little time - Seapac plans

2008-05-29T17:18:00.000-07:00

Every year I bring far too many toys and projects to Seaside. I'm sure this year will be no exception but I'm going to try and keep it down to only twice as much as I can use.Here's a fluffy list of my projects for the weekend.1. I'd like to get the Vista laptop "Internet Connection Sharing" from the wireless card feed the WRT634 router. Shouldn't be too hard and should be very useful.2. Related

I need an External Bluetooth GPS

2008-05-25T19:03:00.000-07:00

Which GPS should I get? Will it be here in time for Seapac at Seaside? Is there anyplace to buy it locally?http://www.semsons.com/ib737blgps32.htmlUS GLOBAL BT-338 at AmazonAmazon is promising. Could they get a GPS across Lake Washington in a mere three days? Probably not an issue as it probably isn't shipped from Seattle any way.

Wetnet Brunch 5/24/08, Whisper, 6 meters, HDTV

2008-05-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I filled out a page with notes durning brunch. This was a good one... Here's the high points in no particular order:Whisper - It appears this is the hot mode on 6 meters these days. If I get an antenna at Seaside next weekend I'll be able to give this a try. Stan's article in ARRL mentions 30 meters but 6 meters (50.290?) is also used. So far the Diamond DP-GH62

JNOS does B2F

2008-05-24T15:06:00.000-07:00

Thank you Maiko!!! This is a big thing. Personally I'll have it installed and running by the end of the day.Bill-----Greetings to all,Here is another snapshot of my development system, which now includes full support for B2F forwarding (and attachments). Please READ the link to 'details / how to compile' for full details. It contains information on new commands, enhancements, bugs that still

ARRL marketing Amateur Technology.

2008-05-19T12:45:00.001-07:00

Here's another new blog. ARRL is adding technology as their 5th pillar and this, in theory, is a good start toward future good things...http://wedothatradio.wordpress.com/

Online Amateur Magazine - AntenTOP

2008-05-15T13:02:00.000-07:00

I discovered the online Amateur Radio and Antenna magazine, AntenTOP, thanks to Google Reader and the AC7FA blog posting.Now if only they would have RSS or Email announcements...

Crank up the power!! - nwaprs sig posting

2008-05-09T23:43:00.000-07:00

> Placed order for a MT-8000FA on Wednesday, it arrived todayThere seems to be a significant number of folks getting these newtracker units. While it's always great to see new technology hit thestreets, this is one place where it's a real step backwards. Despitecomments that a system with a receiver was coming, they continue torelease new products that cannot tell if they're transmitting at

Linux Ham

2008-05-06T23:35:00.000-07:00

There have been some impressive new software offerings on Linux recently.. It needs better advertising. More on that soon...

Linuxfest Northwest 2008

2008-04-29T22:27:00.001-07:00

My first linuxfest... http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/Here's some quick notes.This was the first time in years I made it North of Mt Vernon and the first time ever off the road at Bellingham. I didn't realize how big the town was, how long it stretched along I5 and that there were three major schools.It was yard sale weekend in the county...Nice place for a gathering at the Bellingham Technical

First Post

2008-04-29T21:56:00.001-07:00

We have to start somewhere. How about this?73Bill - WA7NWP