Heading home tomorrow.(3days with my family is enough) Will stop at HRO in PDX to pick up my Christmas present, new ID-5100a coming home!
December 29th, 2014 kennyrTags: twitter
Stuff that I like, stuff I hate and all that is in between….
Spending the weekend holed up with my family in Sunriver
December 28th, 2014 kennyrRebuilding WordPress blogs and trying to kick this head cold….
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WordPress blogs hate me…..
December 28th, 2014 kennyrMight have noticed that my blog (this thing you are reading) has been dead for the last couple weeks. My main server had a harddisk failure a couple weeks ago and it caused the machine to not boot. I knew the drive was going and my plan was to replace it with an completely new machine. I even had the new machine built and everything moved over to it, except the blog. So old machine died and I thought, now I HAVE to spend the 30 minutes to move the blog.
But of course moving the blog turned out to be much, much harder then it should have been. I have moved the blog several times in the past, I had directions on how to-do it and I even had a working installation to work from, but it would not work.
So after spending most of today doing everything I could think of to spin up the blog with my backup, I finally gave up and just installed a fresh blog. After much Google searching, I found a reference that said if I just restored the wp_posts table into the new installation, it would restore all my posts. This mostly worked, I had to-do a little directory hacking to get my image upload directory to be visual.
I’m done for tonight, I’ll install the plug-ins that suck in twitter and G+ posts tomorrow.
So 5.5hr drive turned into 7hrs yesterday
December 26th, 2014 kennyrBut made it to Sunriver. The sun is out today, but cold…
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About to hit the road for a 5.5 hr drive to Sunriver
December 25th, 2014 kennyrBut first Starbucks!
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Biggest issue so far with getting a iPhone6+ is that my iPad mini now seems very slow
December 25th, 2014 kennyrBiggest issue so far with getting a iPhone6+ is that my iPad mini now seems very slow.
Cool article
December 16th, 2014 kennyrCool article…
Magic Leap
It’s time to bring magic back into the world.™
RT @Ihnatko The only big thing I didn’t like about the SW teaser was that the full movie didn’t start when I frantically threw my wallet at the screen.
November 29th, 2014 kennyrTags: twitter
Follow-up to UDRx Beta Testing
November 23rd, 2014 kennyrI just realized that I never posted an update on my trip to Friday Harbor and the UDRx testing. The trip was great as always, ended up meeting WA7FUS and WB7FHC on the ferry. Budd was making contacts with his Pi+NWR DV3000 via a cellular link. We ended up having brunch(?) with K7UDR and then headed over to the SJCARS meeting.
After the meeting, N7NIX and I hauled out the equipment to begin the 9.6k TNC testing with the UDRx. The first step was trying to figure out what was going on with Basil's PK-96. I initially set mine up and made sure it was still working after being boxed up for the trip. I was feeding the test setup with my D700 and APRS packets at 9.6k. Once I confirmed my setup was still working, I started swapping out parts with Basil. We were able to confirm his TNC is fine, but something between the radio and cable to the radio was not.
Setting that aside, we started actually testing the transmitting abilities of the UDRx at 9.6k. We had three TNC's in the room, a Timewave PK-96, Kenwood's D700 and the Yaseu's FT1DR. All were able to receive the test packets without any problems. Granted everything was within 10 feet of each other, but it is still a big step.
I ended up taking the unknown PK96 radio cable home with me. I initially tried it with my Ft817, which proved the cable was 'broken'. This morning I took it apart and discovered the 1200 and 9600 input pins were tied together. (The PK96 only has a single audio input) I had never built one like that and suspected most radios were not turning off the 1200 output. I just finished making a new cable, one with only the 9600 input wired up and my PK96 started receiving 9.6k packets.
Follow-up to UDRx Beta Testing
November 23rd, 2014I just realized that I never posted an update on my trip to Friday Harbor and the UDRx testing. The trip was great as always, ended up meeting WA7FUS and WB7FHC on the ferry. Budd was making contacts with his Pi+NWR DV3000 via a cellular link. We ended up having brunch(?) with K7UDR and then headed over to the SJCARS meeting.
After the meeting, N7NIX and I hauled out the equipment to begin the 9.6k TNC testing with the UDRx. The first step was trying to figure out what was going on with Basil's PK-96. I initially set mine up and made sure it was still working after being boxed up for the trip. I was feeding the test setup with my D700 and APRS packets at 9.6k. Once I confirmed my setup was still working, I started swapping out parts with Basil. We were able to confirm his TNC is fine, but something between the radio and cable to the radio was not.
Setting that aside, we started actually testing the transmitting abilities of the UDRx at 9.6k. We had three TNC's in the room, a Timewave PK-96, Kenwood's D700 and the Yaseu's FT1DR. All were able to receive the test packets without any problems. Granted everything was within 10 feet of each other, but it is still a big step.
I ended up taking the unknown PK96 radio cable home with me. I initially tried it with my Ft817, which proved the cable was 'broken'. This morning I took it apart and discovered the 1200 and 9600 input pins were tied together. (The PK96 only has a single audio input) I had never built one like that and suspected most radios were not turning off the 1200 output. I just finished making a new cable, one with only the 9600 input wired up and my PK96 started receiving 9.6k packets.