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Wednesday, September 08 2010 @ 05:23 PM CDT

Nice 6m Sporadic-e opening.

Wednesday, June 14 2006 @ 04:28 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Just worked a couple of stns south of Denver, CO (DM-79). Strong +20 signals. Last Sunday there was a spectacular opening and worked Virginia!

GPS on FreeBSD

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