Posted 25 Jun 2008 — by Alex
Category Pocket PC
Before I start I’m going to caveat this by saying two things. Firstly I’m not sure where this stands as far as legality is concerned, I’d suggest that it’ll be frowned upon by at least one section of the software industry. Secondly it worked for me and I’m not responsible if you brick your device.
Anyway with those bit’s out the way lets get down to business. I bought a Dell x50v a while ago and it’s been pretty good at doing what a pda is supposed to do. There are a few little niggles like battery life but all in all it’s done a good job. The trouoble is it runs Windows mobile 2003 SE which is quite dated now and begining to stop me from getting some good software. The original WM5 update offered by Dell was awful to say the least and after trying it for a couple of days just the thought of upgrading made me feel a little queasy at best.
Over the weekend I mistyped something in google and got a post in a blog about upgrading to WM6. This I had to try so a trip to some forums and a bit more googling and downloading came across a post which said it all, very simply.
I’m not going to regurgitate someone elses work but in order to save a bit of time I suggest you go here directly to page 140 and follow what joshlindem has to say
Needless to say the upgrade went well and I’m now re-enjoying my X50v with WM6. I can wholly recommend it as it’s a real winner over WM2003SE. A big thanks to those who tinker for hours to bring us these things
Posted 23 Jun 2008 — by Alex
Category Radio
The station is back up and running and the results should be coming through some time today. The old laptop is looking even more shakey now and it may fall over at any time so if it does, bear with me until another solution can be found.
Apart from that I hope you enjoy the results
Posted 09 Jun 2008 — by Alex
Category Radio
The beacon station is packing upit’s bags and going on holiday for a week or so. The station will be inactive from 13th June to 22nd June although I will be operating QRP when time permits from a little bit lower down the country so it’ll be nice to see if the conditions are better than they are here. Currently that couldn’t be too difficult!
Hopefully that’ll be a bit of advanced notice just in case theres a sudden upturn in the (space) weather.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 — by Alex
Category Radio
You may have noticed that there are more and more applications coming to light that make use of google earth. the first that I came across was logging and I was pretty impressed with what I saw, next was dx clusters and that too sent me sky high with what this integration can do for us mere mortals.the list was growing and growing and nicely done it was too.
Now the ARRL has reported that there is a virtual ionosphere that can be superimposed onto your very own google earth.
I upgraded my installation through the faithful synaptic and I am really impressed with what you get. the work is done by CAPS (Communication Alert and Prediction System) and the details are here. A screenshot of it displaying the foF2 fro today on my machine is below.
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The 3rd June has only just begun for us Europeans and already there was a deluge of reviews and dogy trade stand / hotel room type photo’s of new netbooks. The spec lists and comparisons are all coming out as well and before long I’ll have to commit to one.
Top 3 are still the eeepc 901, msi wind and acer one. All of them are about the same for my purposes. I have some network storage so don’t need a large hard disk but I do need a good screen and good battery life.
The other problem is windows or linux? Whilst I’m staying with Ubuntu for the duration with the desktop, I’m not able to use Ham Radio Deluxe with linux or log onto our corporate server so I may have to by the linux version as they tend to have the better specs and install XP from my currently redundant disc’s.
It’s unlikely that the rest of the day will pass without more news on the tech sites. So I’ll be keeping google reader open and running
