Monday, September 20, 2010

Signal strengths this morning

This plot shows noise floor followed by  WA5MLF followed by W4UOA transmitting.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Yeah right!

Since as long as I can remember, I've been a "glass half full" kind of guy--until I bought an iMac and iPhone. Truth be told, both are better know as iPatch. You think Windows has gone through a lot of releases...iPhone patches bugs as often as they hit my windshield!

This most recent one holds a LOT of promise.  Patch 4.0 was supposed to make the iPhone 4 better...a case of trying to fix the vapor ware and even give the 3G some of the missing functionality that Palm had when it was released 10 something years ago.  Well, you can guess that most of that new functionality came at a price--the new functions along with eveything else were unbearably slow!  Apple's answer, like their answer to the clever iPhone 4 antenna was ... you're on your own dude. 

After enough bad press here comes the fix.  We'll see...but don't hold your breath.  Then again, if you hold your breath just right...MAY BE the phone will run faster!  Now, there's a thought!


Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Cable race



The outside entrance.



I'll probably shorten the piece coming into the room from the outside wall and add a bezel both at the ceiling and wall entrance for a more finished look.



This is the entrance way into the crawl space. This piple exits into the ceiling shown in the above picture.


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Autostitch







I recently came across an excellent autostitch program:

http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html

This picture and those of the shop below were all stitched using this app.  The picture above was stitched from 4 individual images.  Can you find the boundaries? 
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Store Room - Shop - Radio Room


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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Shop/Storeroom

Well...with some regret I have decided a dual use room is not going to work.  So...here is the store room plan.  The workbench is almost 11' long with cabinet and open storage underneath with room on the top for stationary tools and project workspace.  The item to the right of the work bench is a place holder for the shop vac.  There will be space in the room for folding work tables, and other portable items as  well as modest project build-out space.  The room will be heated and cooled.

Tuesday Morning

Friday, August 13, 2010

Tuesday, August 3, 2010