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brainwagon

  1. To add insult to injury, he writes and photographs amazingly well too.
  2. Holy crap, I can't imagine the skill it takes to make food like this: allenhemberger.com/alinea/
  3. My IC735 isn't a great radio for WSPR: even 5w for 2m makes the radio drift, and it doesn't fully recover in the next recv cycle. #hamradio
  4. WSPR DX on 20M last night: VK7BO, VK1UN, VK3JY, VK3GMZ, VK2TCC, VK2PWS, VK2AJW, VK2TPM, DU1MGA, ZL1JA, EA8FF, and WAY2YUN. #hamradio
  5. I just finished The New York Times Crossword for May 29, 2012 in 0:24:10. Download FREE for iOS: bit.ly/nXGA9q #NYTXW
  6. @vk2zay @alangarf @wa7iut @AA7EE It's not hard to get licensed here, if you have a US mail address and $13 or whatever the fee is...
  7. Got two new states for my WAS this evening, shifting over to 20m WSPR for a change of pace and to test the new doublet antenna. #hamradio
  8. Blog Post: The Beaglebone: an $89 Time Machine... bit.ly/N1tOF1
  9. I just finished The New York Times Crossword for May 28, 2012 in 0:16:01. Download FREE for iOS: bit.ly/nXGA9q #NYTXW
  10. @AB3UM Mine is just speaker wire, and way too low. But it seems to work!
  11. simh on my beaglebone + tops 10 distribution == time machine back to my first mainframe experience, for only $89 and 1W of power.
  12. Shifted my 40m dipole for a doublet made from speaker wire. Still low, but early testing suggests it is at least as good.
  13. Eric Chavez batting for the Yankees. Doubles to left. Score 1-1. twitter.com/brainwagon/sta…
  14. Took surprisingly long to get Ubuntu installed on VirtualBox. No problems, just slow.
  15. My beaglebone is pretending to be a PDP 11 this morning, running V7 Unix. Power used is less than 1w.
  16. @chrisgj198 I remember seeing this in Sci Am years ago. Very cool.