Gaim 0.70 is still working for me. Hopefully it keeps working. Otherwise I'll have the painful job of trying to convince all my contacts to use jabber!
We have had this system in use in Australia for a considerable time now, and there are regular publications such as the WIA Callbook which contain copies of most of the callsign info.
I think that it is fair enough to publish that information, we are after all using the government's spectrum. It makes operators much more accountable for their actions and is handy when you are trying to figure out whos who and whats what on which frequency.
The problem with seti@home is that the Arecibo telescope covers only a tiny fraction of the sky.
I would like to see more funding put into projects such as those run by the non-profit organisation Seti League http://www.setileague.org/
Seti League's Project Argus aims to have approximatley 5000 small aperture radio telescopes (generally modified satellite TV antennas) operating in a coordinated effort which allows the entire sky to be continuously monitored. The problem with telescopes such as Arecibo is that because of their large size, they can only see a fraction of the sky. And we don't known when or where we are going to receive 'the call', which is why amateur organisations are important. Just think how many discoveries have been made by amateur (optical) astronomers.
Any signal cable which is not balanced is bound to pick up noise from any EM fields nearby. But because most soundcards are unshielded, they pick up noise from everything inside your box, switchmode PSU, hard drives, processor, everything!
In most situations I don't think it actually matters. A computer produces so much EMI which in turn creates noise in the audio regardless of whether you are running on-board sound or otherwise. Unless you are getting the signal out of the computer digitally, there is going to be noise.
The only real reason I can think of for buying a high-end peripheral sound-card is if you need it for use as part of a digital audio workstation (high smaple-rates, resolution etc... or because you want multi-channel surround.
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Somehow I doubt that the heating system runs on AVGAS.
Gaim 0.70 is still working for me. Hopefully it keeps working. Otherwise I'll have the painful job of trying to convince all my contacts to use jabber!
We have had this system in use in Australia for a considerable time now, and there are regular publications such as the WIA Callbook which contain copies of most of the callsign info. I think that it is fair enough to publish that information, we are after all using the government's spectrum. It makes operators much more accountable for their actions and is handy when you are trying to figure out whos who and whats what on which frequency.
I would like to see more funding put into projects such as those run by the non-profit organisation Seti League http://www.setileague.org/
Seti League's Project Argus aims to have approximatley 5000 small aperture radio telescopes (generally modified satellite TV antennas) operating in a coordinated effort which allows the entire sky to be continuously monitored. The problem with telescopes such as Arecibo is that because of their large size, they can only see a fraction of the sky. And we don't known when or where we are going to receive 'the call', which is why amateur organisations are important. Just think how many discoveries have been made by amateur (optical) astronomers.
Any signal cable which is not balanced is bound to pick up noise from any EM fields nearby. But because most soundcards are unshielded, they pick up noise from everything inside your box, switchmode PSU, hard drives, processor, everything!
In most situations I don't think it actually matters. A computer produces so much EMI which in turn creates noise in the audio regardless of whether you are running on-board sound or otherwise. Unless you are getting the signal out of the computer digitally, there is going to be noise. The only real reason I can think of for buying a high-end peripheral sound-card is if you need it for use as part of a digital audio workstation (high smaple-rates, resolution etc... or because you want multi-channel surround. -- Book