W4ZHR Score Breakdown Field Day 2010

Station      Contacts    Score
80/40 CW          369      738
20/15/10 CW       568    1,136 
All Band Phone    379      379
GOTA               51       51
Free VHF           37       37
Satellite          12       12
_____________________________
Totals          1,416    2,353
X2 power Multiplier          2
                       _______
                         4,706
Public Place bonus         100
Media Publicity bonus      100
FD bulletin bonus          100
Satellite QSO bonus        100
Web submission bonus        50
                        ______
Total Score              5,156

Birmingham Zamora Field Day 2010

Katie's Project Room

Breakfast on the Mountain

Yaesu VL-2000

As seen at Dayton 2010

In recognition of ARRL's new book: Remote Operating for Amateur Radio

See this earlier post.

Proof of Concept

Jorge give us an excellent idea to allow W4BXI to easily control all of his PCs from one machine.  The idea is to use Remote Desktop over BXI's Intranet.  The above screen shot is a proof of concept demonstration.  The laptop has used Remote Desktop to connect to two computers on the Mentone Cottage Intranet: Mentone-HP and Mentone-Dell.  I connected using their local computer names--I could just as easily connected using there Intranet IP addresses--however the computer names are obviously more meaningful.  Thus you can see at the top of their individual window and in the task bar at the bottom, the names of computers to which I am connected.  To make switching particularly easy, I then resized each of the connection windows to almost fill the screen.  Now I can use the Alt-Tab hot key combination to switch between each computer.  As I move between the windows with Alt-Tab, Windows reports what that window is--telling me if it is Mentone-HP or Mentone-Dell or Desktop (the local computer).

Now...here is the rub...isn't there always a rub!!!  While I can work with (control) ANY NUMBER of computers in this way--four in John's case--I can ONLY see ONE screen at a time.  As soon as I take control of each machine, that machine's monitor goes back to the login screen.  As a result, I can not see all four displays at one time.  Obviously, if I put 4 video cards in say Dell-Tiger, I could put each window in its own monitor--with all 4 monitors being driven by Dell-Tiger.  I would still have to use Alt-Tab to switch between windows to gain control but I would now see simultaneously what each computer was doing.

The following shot is the pop-up you see when you use the Alt-Tab hot key:

The next screen shot is Mentone-Dell.

I hope this makes sense. Maybe something to talk about Saturday morning. Thanks again Jorge for a great idea. Obviously it works great.

2-Chat

W4BXI

Camp McDowell Rainbow

Private Air Travel

Air Travel

New VOX CAT Command for HRD

Roundtable May 15, 2010

Everyone sounds fantastic this morning!

FT-2000 CAT Commands in HRD

HRD CAT Commands to Control FT-2000 functions remotely.

Antenna Test

Comparative Plot

Mentone Wile Life

Now preserved in Isopropal for casual viewing....

Trace route from WA5MLF Birmingham

Here is one captured from my location today at 0902 CDT.

John WA5MLF

Tracing route to addonchat.com [64.255.248.215]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.254
  2    23 ms    21 ms    21 ms  xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.lightspeed.brhmal.sbcglobal.net [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
  3    21 ms    25 ms    30 ms  99.133.12.6
  4    21 ms    20 ms    21 ms  99.133.13.16
  5    22 ms    20 ms    21 ms  99.133.13.10
  6    20 ms    21 ms    21 ms  70.159.220.252
  7    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  12.81.36.20
  8    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  12.81.36.0
  9    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  12.83.2.204
 10    26 ms    26 ms    25 ms  12.83.2.213
 11    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  74.175.192.74
 12    27 ms    29 ms    27 ms  cr1.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.141.186]
 13    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  ggr7.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.241]
 14    53 ms    53 ms    53 ms  192.205.35.218
 15    63 ms    53 ms    53 ms  ae-72-52.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.68.103.61]
 16    47 ms    53 ms    52 ms  ae-3-2.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.73]
 17    46 ms    46 ms    46 ms  ae-21-54.car1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.98]
 18    51 ms    51 ms    51 ms  Elm-2-Aspen.nframe.com [216.37.0.65]
 19    51 ms    51 ms    51 ms  Room122A-2-Elm.nframe.com [216.37.0.86]
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Chatroom Trace Route from Mentone

Full size view

Palstar Tuner and W4HE Blue Bird House

Palstar tuner now at the cottage.

















W4HE Blue Bird house. Look closely in the center of the white circle. The house
opening is approximately 6' off the ground. Hopefully the Blue Birds will like the
open flyway out to the west.

America's Favorite Contact Sport!

ARRL Field Day 2010

Soft Rock Links of Interest

http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/RXTX_V6_3/index.htm


http://www.kb9yig.com/

Chat Room Trace

Echo

This morning after everyone signed, I was testing from Tuscaloosa--just keying the transmitter in CW.  I noticed I was hearing an echo when I unkeyed.  The following audio wave shows the key down as a relatively straight line followed by receiver white noise and the return tone.  You can hear a slight hum when I go key down.  Click here to listen to the wave file shown below.

Marketing at Work

The English says "Made in U.S.A."

The French says "Fabrique aux E.U"

So...if you're a French or European buyer it's made in
the European Union. If you live in the U.S. it's made
in the U.S.

It's on of the clever "FO" batteries! Flexible Origin!

ps
Then again it could that E.U. stands for Etats Unis "United States"

Top wire new drop?

Bobby and me

KB4XX at Praire Creek Camp Site

So what are the structures across the river to the East?

This mornings rig control with Phil in the background.

Phil's China portable site!

Looking at this more carefully, I am thinking Phil's camp site is indicated by the Green arrow. What say Phil?