Faucett

NOAA v. WU

Choices

Solus

Morning Moon

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KQ5S DX Cluster Analysis for Past 24 Hours

The attached files are analysis of DX Spots for the past 24 hours where the spotting stations were either within 200 miles of my house or from the Eastern part of North America.  

This is propagation by band for the past 24 hours from Eastern North America.

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This is band versus continent for spots from Eastern North America.

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This one is 24 hour propagation from within 200 miles of Albertville, AL.

W8JI 80M Profile

Formula Magic

SWR 220' W8JI 160m to 10m

220' W8JI Dipole

R     X     Z

T-suffix Tuner Baluns

DX Engineering Baluns for Use with Antenna Tuner

Birmingham Remote

FT-2000D

Cables Cables Cables

Because I want the K3-KPA-KAT in order, I will have to move every piece of equipment except the KAT.

Hog Wire?

Anyone need an investment in NYC?

This little opportunity is just a few house down from Josh's walk-up.  It has a little more to offer than Josh's place.

View from Josh's NYC Rooftop

Bell Labs

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4655517

LP-Pan 2 Crystal for K3

NaP3 Connected to CW Skimmer

NaP3 getting spots from CW Skimmer.
Multiple connections made possible to FTdx3000 made possible by
LP-Bridge 2.  See post below.

LP-Bridge 2

LP Bridge 2 connected to FTdx3000 then sharing via Virtual Ports, the FTdx3000 with

COM11==>NaP3

COM12==>CW Skimmer

COM13==>N1MM

LP-Bridge 2 at Work

LP-Rridge 2 connecting FTdx3000 to NaP3, CW Skimmer, and N1MM

NaP3 Talks to Skimmer

John Constable Painting

COM Port Sharing App

You can find this product here.

Big screen panadapter

E-MU and LP-PAN 2

Fog Lakes in the Valley

HRD with Customized Buttons

Command Line Programming Never Grows Old

I use an IP power switch to energize my radios and tuner. This particular power switch uses cURL to communicate through a browser interface.  For example the following cURL command lines power on the equipment plugged into ports 1 and 2.

C:\curl\curl.exe "$1/nagios_powerctrl.csp?slave_id=1&port=1&ctrl_kind=1" -u $2:$3

C:\curl\curl.exe "$1/nagios_powerctrl.csp?slave_id=1&port=2&ctrl_kind=1" -u $2:$3

where

$1 is the URL of the power switch

$2 is the power switch login user name

$3 is the power switch password

If you put these two commands in batch file and then run the batch file, the equipment will be successfully energized. However, you will see the batch file open a window and run. Functional but not so elegant.

A simple solution is to create a shortcut pointing to the batch file and set the shortcut to run minimized. The shortcut runs the batch file while minimized, opening no desktop window.  The equipment is simply energized upon clicking on the shortcut.  A corresponding batch file turns the equipment off by changing the "kind=1" to kind=2".

View on East Wall

Shop is a Work in Progress

Fog in the Valley

Old Handbooks

Looking for work?

Lot of companies hiring today.  Do you have what it takes in today's economy?

Personal Internet Security

Please take a moment to read the following article.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/hacking-basics

Please consider doing the following:

1. Get a good password vault for your smart phone.  Best to get one that can sync with your desktop/laptop machine. Enter ALL your passwords into the password vault. Most such applications give you the flexibility to securely store other information that you might want to carry with you at all times.
2. Change passwords regularly (no less often than twice a year) .  You might for example change your passwords in January and July. I realize this is work but it is to your considerable advantage.
3. Do not use the same password on critical accounts or web sites, e.g. banking and financial.  
4. If your financial or brokerage company offers two level security, such as Symantec VIP, use it.
5. Be extraordinarily careful when clicking on email links.  NEVER click on an email link that leads you to login to one of your financial accounts or other web service.  ALWAYS go directly to the website to login.  Check the URL and be sure the name is correct (you have not mis-typed it) and that it displays the features you see here:
   
   Notice the green lock, the https, and verify that the site name is correctly spelled, e.g. you have not transposed letters or mis-typed the first letter or a combination of letters.
   One of the ways that "hackers" steal login user names, email address and passwords is through the use of fake/spoofed websites.
6. Cyber security is not only for the corporations, you too are a target. Protect yourself.

Bedroom a little cool this morning

Thanksgiving in NYC

Thank you Meredith and Josh!

Filling the Macy's Balloons

Classics

KX3 Antenna Connector

Fires across the SE

Lookout Mountain Fires

The Wall

KPA-500 & KAT-500

Generic & KAT-500

2016-11-08

Central Park this A.M.

KXV3

Oh my!

Drought

We have a lot of wildlife in the yard anyway but the recent drought has really brought them out. As you probably know, deer get most of their required water from the plants they eat.

Mom and her fawn taken just a few minutes ago. Click on the image to enlarge.