Entries from April 2009

April 15, 2009

Amazing to watch today…

I think it was great to see all the Tea Parties spring up across the country today.
It was democracy in action.  If you agree or disagree with the events you have to marvel at what took place.
Citizens gathered peacefully to protest what they think is wrong with government.  They used the 1st amendment which grants [...]

April 12, 2009

Interesting day…

From the standpoint of no power in the room that houses my computer…  I’ve flipped all the breakers, etc…  It’s either a bad circuit breaker or something in the wiring here…
I had to run several extension cords from my bedroom into this room to get my systems back up and running… Oh well. [...]

April 6, 2009

IRLP 4865 – Down but not out!

IRLP node 4865 has been down several weeks due to an antenna that needs to be tuned.  Unfortunatly the weather has not been my friend the past few weekends.  This weekend was a bit too windy to be pulling down an antenna.  I hope to have that fixed this weekend and have the IRLP node [...]

April 6, 2009

FCC to begin broadband policy overhaul

C-Net.Com:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10213179-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

April 5, 2009

My serial/USB adapter saga…

Seems like all I do is have saga’s here isn’t it?
I operate a Kenwood TS-850S transceiver with auto tuner and the one thing I’ve been wanting to do was have computer control of my radio and to have that data updated automatically into my logs.
I use N3FJP’s ACLOG and all his contest software.  [...]

April 4, 2009

The new computer…

 Hello.
I’m been real busy with work and I just haven’t had time to do any blogging. However, I do want to let everyone know the new computer did come in. I got it on 3.21.09.
So far I am very impressed with the machine. It’s 64-Bit i7 CPU 920/2.67 GHz, 6 GB ram and 640 GB [...]