which allows our ARES unit to cover from Victoria to Sacramento and inland to Boise from Portland on five watts; no repeater required.
NVIS has many advantages over traditional HF antennas, not the least of which is the ability to get out from canyons as well as flatlands and mountains. The antenna is light, matching the weight of the rigs recommended below. NVIS also reaches out locally, not skipping hundreds to thousands of miles away, so you will end up talking to a ham who likely knows where you are and which PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point, AKA 911 Call Center) to call to get you help quickest.
'QRP' radios are designed for low power operation on SSB voice and CW as well as FM. You can buy a factory made FT-817ND
if you don't feel the joy of DIY
qrpp.org/#qrp_kits
- but, I tell you what, the kits
elecraft.com/K1/K1.htm
are much lighter, as light as 9 oz.
elecraft.com/KX1/KX1.htm
eham.net/reviews/detail/101
g4ilo.com/mfjcub.html
CW is a paper tiger; you can learn it well in a month, and there's a surfeit of training aids now to help you learn.
In The Diamond Age: A Young Victorian Lady's Illustrated Primer, the discussion between Nell and Miss Matheson regarding the manifest unsuitability of Miss Stricken (on page 322 of the 501 page edition, the conversion to your edition is left to the student as an exercise...) makes it very clear:
Miss Matheson smiled. "You are not far off the mark. Miss Stricken's phase of the curriculum comes perilously close to being without any real substance. Why do We bother with it then?"
{snip}
"To teach you humility and self-discipline," Nell said. She had learned this from Dojo long ago.
"Precisely. Which are moral qualities."{snip}
I shall not forget Niven's Law and assume this opinion is shared by Mr Stephenson himself, but perhaps it is.
Well, to my ear, there is a perceptible improvement in S/N & dynamic range, but just barely. I picked mine up on closeout at Target for $40.
Since my (Chrysler) vehicle did not have an HD option when purchased, and tearing the stock radio out for replacement would lose the ability to use steering wheel audio controls, I have not considered a vehicle radio upgrade, and at home, there's better programming to be had (especially from CBC Radio 2 www.cbc.ca stroke video stroke radio-popup.html# stroke networkKey=cbc_radio_2_web&programKey=jazz
Radio amateurs can't do better quality in less bandwidth, period, as amateurs are enjoined from broadcasting and from transmitting music (except for NASA and astronaut hams) - K7AAY.
Official Observers, experienced equipment-heavy hams with experience in signal tracing. The FCC relies on them to _gently_ monitor the airwaves in these days of modern times, when you can't tell the ACs from the DCs...
I second this. I have T-mobile and while their android phone selection is kind of sucking right now, I can still get away with wireless tethering for free and they have one of the largest caps (10 gigs). I've easily blown through 2-5 gigs already this month. They also just boosted their speeds locally and I'm now pulling like 2.5-4mbps, which is a lot better than the 1mbps I was getting previously. Don't know when I'll start to see speeds over 5mbps, but I should probably upgrade to the latest radio. The worst they do to the people that exceed their caps is drop them down to edge, which still at least leaves their phones somewhat usable. Every other provider wants to nickel and dime you to death. Boost is good for cheap phone service, but their network is terrible and nowhere even near edge quality. I'd feel pretty bad for anyone that bought their proposed android phone. Its going to be rather painful. Seems like sprint is content to milk the old nextel network for all its worth.
Nope. The old Nextel (actually iDEN) network is not involved. Sprint uses CDMA for their resellers, and CDMA has so many parameters to tweak to favor cheap vs good that I just avoid CDMA whenever possible.
Capitalism, per se, is not at fault. It's tax lawyers who warped a system which originally focused on long-term growth of capital into short-term growth.
Didn't L. Neil Smith have a tee shirt in THE PROBABILITY BROACH with the Constitution overstamped with VOID WHERE PROHIBITED ? 26 years later, the more things change...
kiloseven.blogspot.com recalls two successful self-sealing subterrene nukes detonated in Mississippi only 187 miles from Leak Zero, Now, if we could onlytest it on BP headquarters first...
Did you publish your concept? I am very curious as to how far this was developed and believe I could add to it constructively. Pls contact me, k7aay {ayt ] arrl [ daht} net
Shipping containers are easy to secure in transit; thievery is rampant in transit through some places. Shipping containers are easy to secure at closing time; there's human beings involved, and therefore a five-percenter will appear who will steal anything. Shipping containers can be power-sawed into a structure which opens up easily yet closed for security at closedown. A tent-fly can be suspended above the metal to deflect sunshine and keep much heat from collecting.
I put the $10 amber stops-all-blue-light safety goggles on about an hour before bed. Works better than F.lux, which has some odd tinting patterns and does not seem to match daylight vs dark at 45.5N/122.45W.
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So? You've forgotten NVIS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Vertical_Incidence_Skywave
qsl.net/wb5ude/nvis
developed by the Fritz in the Big One
tactical-link.com/WWII_NVIS.htm
which allows our ARES unit to cover from Victoria to Sacramento and inland to Boise from Portland on five watts; no repeater required.
NVIS has many advantages over traditional HF antennas, not the least of which is the ability to get out from canyons as well as flatlands and mountains. The antenna is light, matching the weight of the rigs recommended below. NVIS also reaches out locally, not skipping hundreds to thousands of miles away, so you will end up talking to a ham who likely knows where you are and which PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point, AKA 911 Call Center) to call to get you help quickest.
'QRP' radios are designed for low power operation on SSB voice and CW as well as FM. You can buy a factory made FT-817ND
if you don't feel the joy of DIY
qrpp.org/#qrp_kits
- but, I tell you what, the kits
elecraft.com/K1/K1.htm
are much lighter, as light as 9 oz.
elecraft.com/KX1/KX1.htm
eham.net/reviews/detail/101
g4ilo.com/mfjcub.html
CW is a paper tiger; you can learn it well in a month, and there's a surfeit of training aids now to help you learn.
dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=3045
youtube.com/watch?v=6-3pYkvKRe8&feature=related
Not really. Amateur rocketry folks are not allowed access to LEO much less Clarke orbits.
WTF? Mod down, please.
Heinlein wrote about stratospheric relay aircraft even before Clarke wrote about geosync relay sats.
I shall not forget Niven's Law and assume this opinion is shared by Mr Stephenson himself, but perhaps it is.
Well, to my ear, there is a perceptible improvement in S/N & dynamic range, but just barely. I picked mine up on closeout at Target for $40.
Since my (Chrysler) vehicle did not have an HD option when purchased, and tearing the stock radio out for replacement would lose the ability to use steering wheel audio controls, I have not considered a vehicle radio upgrade, and at home, there's better programming to be had (especially from CBC Radio 2 www.cbc.ca stroke video stroke radio-popup.html# stroke networkKey=cbc_radio_2_web&programKey=jazz
Radio amateurs can't do better quality in less bandwidth, period, as amateurs are enjoined from broadcasting and from transmitting music (except for NASA and astronaut hams) - K7AAY.
Mod previous poster up, if you please.
Well, Opera works _very_ well on my Nokia E90. Try it if you can.
Official Observers, experienced equipment-heavy hams with experience in signal tracing. The FCC relies on them to _gently_ monitor the airwaves in these days of modern times, when you can't tell the ACs from the DCs...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Auxiliary
http://www.rac.ca/en/rac/public-service/official-observers/
E-3, Lance Corporal, according to insignia in picture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_rank_insignia#Enlisted
$83/mo more.
I second this. I have T-mobile and while their android phone selection is kind of sucking right now, I can still get away with wireless tethering for free and they have one of the largest caps (10 gigs). I've easily blown through 2-5 gigs already this month. They also just boosted their speeds locally and I'm now pulling like 2.5-4mbps, which is a lot better than the 1mbps I was getting previously. Don't know when I'll start to see speeds over 5mbps, but I should probably upgrade to the latest radio. The worst they do to the people that exceed their caps is drop them down to edge, which still at least leaves their phones somewhat usable. Every other provider wants to nickel and dime you to death. Boost is good for cheap phone service, but their network is terrible and nowhere even near edge quality. I'd feel pretty bad for anyone that bought their proposed android phone. Its going to be rather painful. Seems like sprint is content to milk the old nextel network for all its worth.
Nope. The old Nextel (actually iDEN) network is not involved. Sprint uses CDMA for their resellers, and CDMA has so many parameters to tweak to favor cheap vs good that I just avoid CDMA whenever possible.
Capitalism, per se, is not at fault. It's tax lawyers who warped a system which originally focused on long-term growth of capital into short-term growth.
No, not the Three Laws:
"Those with a name early in the alphabet succeed more often than those with names at the end of the alphabet."
Didn't L. Neil Smith have a tee shirt in THE PROBABILITY BROACH with the Constitution overstamped with VOID WHERE PROHIBITED ?
26 years later, the more things change...
kiloseven.blogspot.com recalls two successful self-sealing subterrene nukes detonated in Mississippi only 187 miles from Leak Zero, Now, if we could onlytest it on BP headquarters first...
http://kiloseven.blogspot.com/2010/06/open-letter-to-keith-olbermann-on-being.html explains succinctly, with references, how to shut down the leak.
Did you publish your concept? I am very curious as to how far this was developed and believe I could add to it constructively. Pls contact me, k7aay {ayt ] arrl [ daht} net
Carry a crane on the train, as well as generators, a 'water buffalo' tanker, trailer bases & intermodal tractors.
Depends on where you park it. There are some high dry parts of Missouri. Might have to pick your route carefully.
Shipping containers are easy to secure in transit; thievery is rampant in transit through some places.
Shipping containers are easy to secure at closing time; there's human beings involved, and therefore a five-percenter will appear who will steal anything.
Shipping containers can be power-sawed into a structure which opens up easily yet closed for security at closedown.
A tent-fly can be suspended above the metal to deflect sunshine and keep much heat from collecting.
I put the $10 amber stops-all-blue-light safety goggles on about an hour before bed. Works better than F.lux, which has some odd tinting patterns and does not seem to match daylight vs dark at 45.5N/122.45W.
"Here's my Frankenboxen running Amiga OS in one partition, and BSD in another. When can I pick it up?"
If you live anywhere near a FreeGeek http://www.freegeek.org/about/intergalactic/ , take your gear there. If they can't be repaired, or stripped for parts to build new boxen, your gear will be responsibly recycled http://www.freegeek.org/free-geek-designated-e-steward/ and not end up in a Third World landfill toxifying the planet.
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