Archives for November, 2007

Hustler 6-BTV tuning

  • Posted by Alex
  • November 27, 2007

During this weekends World Wide CW contest weekend where you’d be forgiven in thinking that there has been a change to the band plan I decided to finish up tuning the vertical antenna that I installed a few weeks ago so I could operate from the portions of the bands that I prefer are at [...]

Software Defined Radio (SDR) Beacon Monitoring

  • Posted by Alex
  • November 22, 2007

Earlier this week I got in touch with Steve Ireland (VK6VZ) after reading his column in Radcom to see if I could get some guidance as to if there were any SDR products that he knew of to be used as a beacon monitoring station. My little project will hopefully be able to use an [...]

Word to the wise

  • Posted by Alex
  • November 7, 2007

I’ve switched hosts
Installed Wordpress (which I might add is excellent and now provides the ‘no excuse for a bad site even if you are an IT muppet). Using my new hosts installation tool ‘Fantastico’ which it quite clearly is
Started the sorting out process…loads to do and not much time to do it in. A load [...]

Mobile Blogging

  • Posted by Alex
  • November 2, 2007

Well, as a first attempt at posting using my pocket pc I don’t think it went too bad

New host

  • Posted by Alex
  • November 2, 2007

I’ve found a new host, paid my fees to the old one for transferring my domain and am waiting for everything to be moved and ready for the wordpress installation. Hopefully this time I shall be able to do it myself but I’m not too proud to ask for help.
There’s still plenty to do now [...]