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Wednesday, September 08 2010 @ 05:24 PM CDT

Winning the Battle

Thursday, May 18 2006 @ 10:22 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 241

Making progress in cleaning up the services mess. All water, gas, elect conduit and data conduits are in place with trenches covered. Well, almost: trench out to vegatable garden is still open and there is a work hole at the 2" conduit power tee branch leading to the house.

All that remains: pulling the power mains and plumb the garden water. Then, I can fill the last of the trenches and get to "blending" the new landscape.

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What a Mess!

Wednesday, May 10 2006 @ 07:31 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 230

This is the last of the infrastructure projects for '06. Had a small excavator come in and slice up the place for underground services.

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WikkaWiki

Sunday, April 30 2006 @ 02:52 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 335

While browsing around, I ran into WikkaWiki, a fork off the WakkaWiki code. Wow, really simple, at least on the surface. The goals set by the development group: flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight are appealing to me and I need to learn something about Wiki engines. Zo, I turned up the latest stable release 1.1.6.1, on my FreeBSD box....

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Shop Painted

Friday, April 28 2006 @ 06:45 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 286

Yesterday, I painted the shop building.

Boy, was it a big job. I started out w/ my Wagner airless and noticed that the spray pattern was tailing. I didn't make it very far before the boot dropped and the inlet check valve went tango uniform. Turns out Wagner uses an "O" ring across the faces of the valve seat to effect the seal (cheap!). Went into town and found the right size "O" ring. Returned back to the farm, re-assembled and re-started. Only got another 50 or so sq. ft. before the "O" ring let go again.

Called the rental outfit in Kamiah to verify availability of an airless and headed out to

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Commander HF-2500 Review

Saturday, April 22 2006 @ 01:26 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 498

Found this well done review of the Commander HF-2500 amplifier.

Worthwhile reading for anyone wanting know more about the Commander HF-2500. Real world testing and images are great too. Follow the link above.

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GPS on FreeBSD

Friday, April 21 2006 @ 07:46 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 357

Yesterday, I got a USB serial ported GPS working on the LAN FreeBSD 6.0 box. The GPS is an HI-204S Turtle mini DIN w/ a Prolific USB-Serial Controller extension to the cable.

I mounted the GPS on the eve

outside the radio room window with the cable coming in via the cable feed through insert below the movable lite.

The plan is to have gpsd running on the FreeBSD box, keeping time spot on with a simple python daemon periodicaly correcting system clock. An NTP server on the FreeBSD box will provide time sync for my LAN. This all trickles down to the fact that I need accurate time sync for High Speed Meteor Scatter and EME work. WSJT on the winder$ box will have just that, with XP slaved to LAN time.

I had minor issues getting the USB serial working on the FreeBSD box cuz,,,,

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Commander 2500 Arrives

Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 06:10 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 315

About an hour and a half ago the Commander 2500 arrived. Holy smoke, this thing is massive!

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More WX Sticker Issues

Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 06:49 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 204

WX.com stopped returning the .gif for the weather sticker zo, I took it down. Guess I'll have to gin up my own weather report block, no metar stations around here!

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New Weather Sticker

Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 08:35 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 239

Been watching the new weather sticker from wx.com and it seems to be fairly accurate. Problem w/ living in the sticks as I do, is that it is difficult to find a WX forcast engine that 'generates' a forcast from surrounding reporting stations. Not sure how the wx.com people forcast but, is going to have to do. Looks pretty good too.

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Weather Data

Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 10:33 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 227

Been watching the local weather in the block to the right and have killed it while searching for a better source for the local report. The service I was using was very slow to load and in-accurate to boot. Raining cats and dogs today and service was reporting clear.

I'll be trying various weather bugs for the block on right. Hope to settle on one soon.

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