I’ve been out of the loop for a few weeks due to some family things. I hope to be back on the air and on the blog shortly.
Normal service will resume shortly. Or when there is some useful propagation…..
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Local issues
Posted 03 Jun 2010 — by Alex
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Whilst it won’t have escaped most peoples attention that our sleepy community has been in the news this week for all the wrong reasons.
A very unsettling series of events took place yesterday where a man went on a shooting spree killing and injuring many. One of my cycling friends happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and came face to face with the gun man. Whilst he wasn’t singled out for whatever reason he is lucky to be alive and understandably shaken about attempting to administer first aid to one of the random victims.
Whilst the media will eventually dissipate these events will leave a scare on the beautiful area that I am privileged to live in. I hope that the community is able to come to terms with these events which it will do in time.
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Masters done
Posted 04 May 2010 — by Alex
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This weekend saw my final edit of my masters. It has been a long time coming, over 6 years of study to get from a lowly BTec HND through to an MEng and only one smaller hurdle to chartership.
So what does this mean? for one thing time to spend learning other new skills, for one I’ve had a hankering to learn some kind of computer language, nothing complicated like HRD but something that will be able to give me a new skill, the other thing is CW, I have never had theability or time to learn CW. The final thing was to get better at homebrew.
Code – I have amassed a lot of data from my beacon monitoring exploits and will continue to generate data, currently it presented as the gif you get from Faros. I’d like to present the data better. Perhaps a small programme could be written that converts and presents the data better.
The other code – Koch or other method, I’m not sure it really matters but the ability to send and recieve CW is a missing attribute that I feel I ought to have as a ham. Even if it is for listening rather than sending, it’s a good skill to have.
Homebrew – I bumped into Kevin, MOKHZ at the other day and he gave me the inside scoop on the new HPSDR that is in this months Radcom. I’m not expecting to get to that level of skill but something that will help me understand SDR a bit better and get me to the goal of the SDR beacon monitoring station.
Back home
Posted 01 Feb 2010 — by Alex
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Back home now, thought it best not to advertise that I’ve been away in case we had some unwelcome visitors at home.
Back on the bike
Posted 20 Jan 2010 — by Alex
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Had a quick 20 mile run out on saturday to see how bad my cycling legs are and surprise surprise they were pretty stiff. Got a few more miles under my belt as well on the road with a nice quick tempo run on monday evening 4.5 miles at a sniff under 7 min miles. The first time I’ve got down below the magic 7 for a while. So the pre training is nearly over and the real 16 weeks start soon.
I’m struggling to get enough sleep at times and so I’ll have to work on getting to bed earlier or getting better quality sleep. Too much tossing and turning andnot enough snoring!!!
