Feel quiet here? your all busy ?
Feel quiet here?
Re: quiet
By: Ennev to All on Wed Jan 10 2018 10:13 am
Feel quiet here? your all busy ?
Not particularly...
Feel quiet here? your all busy ?
Feel quiet here? your all busy ?
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Yeah ive been feeling since christmas the frequnecy of posts has gone down
a whole bunch.
i worked one hour today. the rest was at my desk on facebook or listening
to the radio
About radio I've dusted out my old shortwave receiver and I was shock about the silence, a lot have stations stopped service. Sad, our democracies shoul still broadcast, for many with theirs governments blocking the internet that was a way to circumvent somehow the censorship (they could try jamming, but not has efficient as cutting the wires).
Oddly enough there is a S%17 load of Chinese stations.
Elaek wrote to All <=-
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Feel quiet here?
Yeah ive been feeling since christmas the frequnecy of posts has gone
down a whole bunch.
Feel quiet here? your all busy ?
Kind of sad that short wave radio is falling by the way side. It was kind of cool to pick up a couple of French stations (for all I know, it could have been broadcasted from Quebec) and not understand a word of what was said.
Looks like I'm back, after a few technical hitches.
Jagossel wrote to Ennev <=-
Kind of sad that short wave radio is falling by the way side. It was
kind of cool to pick up a couple of French stations (for all I know, it could have been broadcasted from Quebec) and not understand a word of
what was said.
Kind of sad that short wave radio is falling by the way side. It was kind of >cool to pick up a couple of French stations (for all I know, it could have been
broadcasted from Quebec) and not understand a word of what was said.
Re: quiet
By: Ennev to All on Wed Jan 10 2018 10:13 am
Feel quiet here? your all busy ?
Stomach flu.
Jagossel wrote to Vk3jed <=-
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Re: Re: quiet
By: Vk3jed to Elaek on Fri Jan 12 2018 21:26:00
Looks like I'm back, after a few technical hitches.
Welcome back! I was wondering if everything was OK, haven't heard from you in a while.
Yeah, dead SD in the Pi, and a corrupt backup, so had to rebuild from scratch. Took the opportunity to upgrade to SBBS 3.17. :) Still getting various networks back up and running, the slowest part is contacting the hubs and getting session passwords again. :)
Looks like I'm back, after a few technical hitches.
Welcome back! I was wondering if everything was OK, haven't heard
from you in a while.
Yeah, dead SD in the Pi, and a corrupt backup, so had to rebuild from scratch. Took the opportunity to upgrade to SBBS 3.17. :) Still getting various networks back up and running, the slowest part is contacting the hubs and getting session passwords again. :)
MRO wrote to Vk3jed <=-
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Re: Re: quiet
By: Vk3jed to Jagossel on Sat Jan 13 2018 06:08 pm
Yeah, dead SD in the Pi, and a corrupt backup, so had to rebuild from scratch. Took the opportunity to upgrade to SBBS 3.17. :) Still getting various networks back up and running, the slowest part is contacting the hubs and getting session passwords again. :)
you dont backup every week?
Denn wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I just moved my entire BBS from an HP thin client to a acer thin
client, the move took about 30 minutes and everything seems to be
working great.
Glad to see you back online with your BBS, to bad your backup was
corrupt.
"... User: the word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot.""
you dont backup every week?
doesn't work real well when the SD card it was being sourced from and prepared on was failing. New backup system should be a lot more robust, with an archive of every backup taken. Also have a backup of the OS, so I don't have to reinstall all my dependencies.
I even remember when I had this one toy to where you
could wire up a lot of electronic components to make whatever you want (it was one of those things to where you have resistors, capicators, a couple
of ICs, and speaker, etc.). One project that was in there was to make a short-wave radio that didn't need any batteries or power. I tried to put power to it, but I was not smart enought with curcuitry to understand that
I needed an amplifier for the speaker and that could be the only thing to take batteries.
I miss listening to Deutsche Welle, Radio Nederlands, and Radio Bulgaria every evening after work. These days I'm lucky if I can pick up anything other than Radio Havana Cuba, China Radio International, or EWTN's
shortwave broadcast.
It's still kinda fun chasing utility, volmet, and numbers stations, but it ain't the same...
I even remember when I had this one toy to where you
could wire up a lot of electronic components to make whatever you want (i was one of those things to where you have resistors, capicators, a couple of ICs, and speaker, etc.). One project that was in there was to make a short-wave radio that didn't need any batteries or power. I tried to put power to it, but I was not smart enought with curcuitry to understand tha I needed an amplifier for the speaker and that could be the only thing to take batteries.
What you are describing is a product like "150-in-one" electronic project. I had so much fun with those, sometime i fell like getting one again, seen something similar on amazon. Learned so much from it, without realizing it.
I think it was a Matrixonic (or something like that). I did find one on Amazon for ~US$95. I, also, saw a recommendation of some kit that comes
with a breadboard, a couple of IC's, buttons, and a few 7s led displays. It comes with a microcontroller (want to believe it's an Ardrino Uno) as well: ~US$50.
Would like to get back to curcuitry again, but I cannot find a practical project to make something. So, I just end up watching The Ben Heck Show videos.
Ennev wrote to Vaclav <=-
One site that is fun to play with is :
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901
but it's not the same. But fun to find theses software defined radios available on the web.
Ennev wrote to Jagossel <=-
What you are describing is a product like "150-in-one" electronic
project. I had so much fun with those, sometime i fell like getting one again, seen something similar on amazon. Learned so much from it,
without realizing it.
Jagossel wrote to Ennev <=-
I think it was a Matrixonic (or something like that). I did find one on Amazon for ~US$95. I, also, saw a recommendation of some kit that comes with a breadboard, a couple of IC's, buttons, and a few 7s led
displays. It comes with a microcontroller (want to believe it's an
Ardrino Uno) as well: ~US$50.
Would like to get back to curcuitry again, but I cannot find a
practical project to make something. So, I just end up watching The Ben Heck Show videos.
Ennev wrote to Jagossel <=-
Yeah same here, still have a soldering iron and stuff. But only use it when it time to do easy fix. Don't really do projects anymore. Like
crazy stuff i did a year or two ago was to control a led light with a Raspberry Pi !! Wow, it's the future :-)
But I have a couple of old AM radio and thinking that my 150-in-one had
a schematic to make a am transmitter. Could make it play what I want on theses old radio without having to alter theirs circuitry, which would
be a sin :-)
Did dug out a pdf of the manuals so i could basically just get the part and breadboard it but radio circuit are tricky. Maybe i would just
start with a kit like that first :-)
When I was a kid me and one of my neighbour friend was making a radio station like that :-) power was low go we never made more than a mile
even with go antenna, so it stayed legal :-D
Yeah same here, still have a soldering iron and stuff. But only use it when time to do easy fix. Don't really do projects anymore. Like crazy stuff i di a year or two ago was to control a led light with a Raspberry Pi !! Wow, it' the future :-)
When I was a kid me and one of my neighbour friend was making a radio statio like that :-) power was low go we never made more than a mile even with go antenna, so it stayed legal :-D
What you are describing is a product like "150-in-one" electronic project. I had so much fun with those, sometime i fell like getting one again, seen something similar on amazon. Learned so much from it, without realizing it.
Those were great kits. Very educational and easy to work with, no soldering required. I only had a 10 in one, but even that had some interesting projec
Greetz from Winnipeg!
You _may_ get away with breadboarding it at AM broadcast frequencies. Will likely be slightly off frequency or detuned to the stray reactances of the connecting wires and the breadbard conductors.
Sadly in Australia, things are a lot more restriceive, we don't have the same flexibility with low power broadcasting that other countries (e.g. USA and New Zealand) seem to have. :(
I remember one of the curcuits that the manual provided was a game, something about having to shoot down a UFO as soon as it approaches. It
was kind of cool, and worth it after following over 5 lines of instructions (it was one per line, a series in a line) of wiring and nearly running out of wires. :)
When I watch a lot of the Ben Heck shows, it seems like electronic engineering is starting to have a lot of programming involved. It really seems like software is starting to take over our daily lives. :)
When I watch a lot of the Ben Heck shows, it seems like electronic engineering is starting to have a lot of programming involved. It really seems like software is starting to take over our daily lives. :)
Anybody watch Techmoan or Mr Carlson's Lab, could watch that all day :-D
Jagossel wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Those were great kits. Very educational and easy to work with, no soldering required. I only had a 10 in one, but even that had some interesting projec
Man, they were loads of fun and it was one of the few toys that I would play with (along with Legos and a computer) very frequently. Like I
said, I went to look it up one day and saw that they are now over
US$95, but the one kit that I saw that comes with a microcontroller is like about US$50. I would like to pick it up and see if I can do something with it, but I wouldn't know what to do with a curcuit and a microcontroller.
When I watch a lot of the Ben Heck shows, it seems like electronic engineering is starting to have a lot of programming involved. It
really seems like software is starting to take over our daily lives.
:)
Speaking as a developer, of course. <grin>
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yes very tricky, you look at it and it shift frequencies :-D I guess
the best would be solder and shield the board. But for a start.
Sadly in Australia, things are a lot more restriceive, we don't have the same flexibility with low power broadcasting that other countries (e.g. USA and New Zealand) seem to have. :(
Here I just looked and I was surprised as what is legal : http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf01323.html
Jagossel wrote to Ennev <=-
I used to do the same thing with my kit, make the AM radio transmitter
and broadcast whatever I want. I believe mine only had a very short
range that it would not go past the neighbors houses. I had an added bonus where my dad is an electronics enigneer as well, and he would
have other parts around the house. I believe I would have been able to grab a 3.5mm plug and plug it in instead of using the speaker as a microphone. Fun times, man.
I remember one of the curcuits that the manual provided was a game, something about having to shoot down a UFO as soon as it approaches.
It was kind of cool, and worth it after following over 5 lines of instructions (it was one per line, a series in a line) of wiring and nearly running out of wires. :)
Ennev wrote to Vaclav <=-
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Greetz from Winnipeg!
-22c here, how about you?
Ennev wrote to Vaclav <=-
Greetz from Winnipeg!
-22c here, how about you?
In the field, this unit was extremely successful. I used it to likk a 70cm FM frequency, 2m SSB frequency and PC with Echolink together. The combination of DSP audio processing and smart squelch made the SSB users sound more like FM users, provided they tuned to the exact frequency the link was running on. I frequently heard reports from Echolink users,
amazed they were talking to someone on SSB. :)
Got a quick summary? I don't have a need to peruse Canadian regulations.
:)
31C today, expecting 43C on Friday. :)
-27c (-37c wind chill) at the moment, almost tropical for this time of
year! ;)
When I was younger, and the cold war was still on, I thought I was some kind of spy when I was able to pick up radio moscow world service! :D I would listen to it for hours, hoping to expose some commie plot.
I just moved my entire BBS from an HP thin client to a acer thin
client, the move took about 30 minutes and everything seems to be
working great.
What you are describing is a product like "150-in-one" electronic project. I had so much fun with those, sometime i fell like getting one again, seen something similar on amazon. Learned so much from it, without realizing it.
SSB on 2M ? wow !
When I was younger, and the cold war was still on, I thought I was some kind of spy when I was able to pick up radio moscow world service! :D I would listen to it for hours, hoping to expose some commie plot.
My grandfather handed down an old Sony shortwave from the 70's that I'd list to late at night. I remember hearing my first numbers station as an early te and thinking I'd run into a global nucyular conspiracy.
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
SSB on 2M ? wow !
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
@VIA: VERT/MTLGEEK
Got a quick summary? I don't have a need to peruse Canadian regulations.
:)
It is for example legal to operate gadget like this : https://www.chezradio.com/ (1290 - 1700kHz )
that have a range from 1/2 miles to 2.
Similar devices are available for FM
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
@VIA: VERT/MTLGEEK
31C today, expecting 43C on Friday. :)
Yup, summer over there !
I'll be on a cruise in a couples of week in the Caribbean, hope to have similar to that, but maybe not 43 :-D
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ennev <=-
I tried to find my son a traditional crystal radio kit, may have to
make my own with him... :(
echicken wrote to Ennev <=-
SSB on 2M ? wow !
It's a thing, but not a thing you can do with most 2M rigs.
There's a semi-weekly net in my area that I keep meaning to check into; need to throw an appropriate antenner outside first.
My grandfather handed down an old Sony shortwave from the 70's that I'd listen >to late at night. I remember hearing my first numbers station as an early teen >and thinking I'd run into a global nucyular conspiracy.
I just moved my entire BBS from an HP thin client to a acer thin
client, the move took about 30 minutes and everything seems to be
working great.
Care to describe your setup? I've been tempted to play with one of those, hear rumors of being able to run DOS/Windows 3 on them as a retro station without the retro hardware complications.
I'm really sad that Radio Canada International has stopped broadcasting and a long with that they would repeat some foreign stations that you couldn't pick up in North America.
Nothing new about SSB on 2m, but using it in a radio link is tricky,
because there's no carrier to distinguish the signal from background noise.
I tried to find my son a traditional crystal radio kit, may have to make my own with him... :(
like any SSB, are they using usb or lsb ?
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
@VIA: VERT/MTLGEEK
Nothing new about SSB on 2m, but using it in a radio link is tricky,
because there's no carrier to distinguish the signal from background noise.
like any SSB, are they using usb or lsb ?
By convention, below 9 MHz, LSB is used, and above 9 MHz, USB is used. So
weird synchronicity, but instructable was featuring this project on theirs mailing this week : http://q.ennev.com/b01
JAGOSSEL wrote to ENNEV <=-
Man, I miss having one of those multi-band radios. My dad had a couple
of those radios on hand. I even remember when I had this one toy to
where you could wire up a lot of electronic components to make whatever you want (it was one of those things to where you have resistors, capicators, a couple of ICs, and speaker, etc.). One project that was
in there was to make a short-wave radio that didn't need any batteries
or power. I tried to put power to it, but I was not smart enought with curcuitry to understand that I needed an amplifier for the speaker and that could be the only thing to take batteries.
Kind of sad that short wave radio is falling by the way side. It was
kind of cool to pick up a couple of French stations (for all I know, it could have been broadcasted from Quebec) and not understand a word of
what was said.
POINDEXTER FORTRAN wrote to JAGOSSEL <=-
Kind of sad that short wave radio is falling by the way side. It was kind of cool to pick up a couple of French stations (for all I know, it could have been broadcasted from Quebec) and not understand a word of what was said.
I loved the romantic notion of traveling and using a shortwave to stay connected to home -- and running an antenna up and listening to
broadcasts from halfway around the world. The internet's made the world
a smaller place.
ENNEV wrote to JAGOSSEL <=-
I even remember when I had this one toy to where you
could wire up a lot of electronic components to make whatever you want (it was one of those things to where you have resistors, capicators, a couple
of ICs, and speaker, etc.). One project that was in there was to make a short-wave radio that didn't need any batteries or power. I tried to put power to it, but I was not smart enought with curcuitry to understand that
I needed an amplifier for the speaker and that could be the only thing to take batteries.
What you are describing is a product like "150-in-one" electronic
project. I had so much fun with those, sometime i fell like getting one again, seen something similar on amazon. Learned so much from it,
without realizing it.
JAGOSSEL wrote to ENNEV <=-
I think it was a Matrixonic (or something like that). I did find one on Amazon for ~US$95. I, also, saw a recommendation of some kit that comes with a breadboard, a couple of IC's, buttons, and a few 7s led
displays. It comes with a microcontroller (want to believe it's an
Ardrino Uno) as well: ~US$50.
Would like to get back to curcuitry again, but I cannot find a
practical project to make something. So, I just end up watching The Ben Heck Show videos.
VACLAV wrote to ENNEV <=-
One site that is fun to play with is :
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901
but it's not the same. But fun to find theses software defined radios available on the web.
I've played with a couple of web SDRs (and scanners!) but not this particular one. Will have to give it a look.
ECHICKEN wrote to ENNEV <=-
SSB on 2M ? wow !
It's a thing, but not a thing you can do with most 2M rigs.
There's a semi-weekly net in my area that I keep meaning to check into; need to throw an appropriate antenner outside first.
JAGOSSEL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
My grandfather handed down an old Sony shortwave from the 70's that I'd list to late at night. I remember hearing my first numbers station as an early te and thinking I'd run into a global nucyular conspiracy.
I just watched a YouTube video about live broadcasts that had been recorded and gone virual. One if them is a numbers station, and the recording that dI heard and how it was described was really erie.
I hear podcasters talking about building stuff with Ardrino and I
think I'd like to do it - then realize I already have a TON of
things I enjoy doing. :-) Even now I'm reading BBS mail for the
first time in over a month! Just been super busy!
I still remember going to the local radio place (not radio shack, but
a local place that worked on the PD radios and such) and getting a
crystal to go in the scanner to pick up a certain frequency. :-)
Yeah - I couldn't remember what they were called! I always looked at
those in the Radio Shack catalog, but never got one. :-)
I wasn't familiar with 'numbers station,' but just googled it.
VERY interesting! Can't say I remember hearing one back in the
day, but I like the concept!
Oh! I remember theses "police scanner" where you would need a crystal for each frequency you wanted to listen on. That poor business got killed digital tuner got introduced. I remember that little sweeping light when it was looking for a transmission.
I remember making sound circuits, playing with photoresistors, and learning a ton about electronics. Now the kits seem more logic-based than teaching about electronics.
Ditto for handheld 1-5 channel walkie talkies - you'd need a receive AND a transmit crystal!
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
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By convention, below 9 MHz, LSB is used, and above 9 MHz, USB is used. So
wondered if the rule applied so far up! :-)
JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to ENNEV <=-
I did make an electromagnet out of a 6V battery and a nail...
JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to JAGOSSEL <=-
I hear podcasters talking about building stuff with Ardrino and I
think I'd like to do it - then realize I already have a TON of
things I enjoy doing. :-) Even now I'm reading BBS mail for the
first time in over a month! Just been super busy!
JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VACLAV <=-
I still remember going to the local radio place (not radio shack, but
a local place that worked on the PD radios and such) and getting a
crystal to go in the scanner to pick up a certain frequency. :-)
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ennev <=-
Ditto for handheld 1-5 channel walkie talkies - you'd need a receive
AND a transmit crystal!
Ennev wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Totally agree with you, it's just some form of lego where I don't think you get any grasp of basic electronic.
I plug the power module to the oscillator module, then i plug the amp module then the speaker module ! I'm a electronic engineer now !
JAGOSSEL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
My grandfather handed down an old Sony shortwave from the 70's that I'd list to late at night. I remember hearing my first numbers station as an early te and thinking I'd run into a global nucyular conspiracy.
I just watched a YouTube video about live broadcasts that had been recorded and gone virual. One if them is a numbers station, and the recording that dI heard and how it was described was really erie.
I wasn't familiar with 'numbers station,' but just googled it.
VERY interesting! Can't say I remember hearing one back in the
day, but I like the concept!
My dad brought a shortband radio home from an auction once (he was always JA>bringing home odd ball things) and I remember having fun listening to JA>Armed Forces Radio or something like that. :-) That was LONG before I JA>knew about HAM radio, and now that I have my license I still only
talk VHF & UHF. :-)
Oh! I remember theses "police scanner" where you would need a crystal for eac E>frequency you wanted to listen on. That poor business got killed digital tune E>got introduced. I remember that little sweeping light when it was looking for E>a transmission.
My grandfather handed down an old Sony shortwave from the 70's that I' list to late at night. I remember hearing my first numbers station as early te and thinking I'd run into a global nucyular conspiracy.
I just watched a YouTube video about live broadcasts that had been recorded and gone virual. One if them is a numbers station, and the recording that dI heard and how it was described was really erie.
I wasn't familiar with 'numbers station,' but just googled it.
VERY interesting! Can't say I remember hearing one back in the
day, but I like the concept!
it's probably how spies communicate. they even have them on facebook.
Yes, I've seen that stuff. The local tech library also had the ones where you draw the circuit on paper with a conductive pen, then add the modules (LED, resistors, transistors, etc) onto the pads you've drawn. Very cool. :)
it's probably how spies communicate. they even have them on facebook.
Ennev wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yes, I've seen this somewhere too, it's awesome. I don't really know
how you put components on the paper but being able to use conductive
ink is amazing. Would have made my life simpler when I was learning.
Breadboard is not bad. But that is elegant.
My grandfather handed down an old Sony shortwave from the 70's that I'd
list to late at night. I remember hearing my first numbers station as an early te and thinking I'd run into a global nucyular conspiracy.
Jagossel wrote to Ennev <=-
Re: quiet
By: Ennev to All on Wed Jan 10 2018 10:13:19
Feel quiet here? your all busy ?
Pretty much, and I've got nothing to say or contribute.
Pretty much, and I've got nothing to say or contribute.
And silence cannot be misquoted...
Sometime silence can say a lot :-) That silence is suspicious :-D
Sometime silence can say a lot :-) That silence is suspicious :-D
Especially if you have a dachshund. <BG>
Sometime silence can say a lot :-) That silence is suspicious :-D
Especially if you have a dachshund. <BG>
that's a good one :-D
Mine is when i see my dogs with pittyful ears waiting in her basket.
Then i say "Oh! what are you guilty about?"
i worked one hour today. the rest was at my desk on facebook or listening to the radio
About radio I've dusted out my old shortwave receiver and I was shock about the silence, a lot have stations stopped service. Sad, our democracies shoul still broadcast, for many with theirs governments blocking the internet that was a way to circumvent somehow the censorship (they could try jamming, but not has efficient as cutting the wires).
Oddly enough there is a S%17 load of Chinese stations.
Daryl Stout wrote to ENNEV <=-
I had a Bearcat 210 XL Scanner years ago...loved it.
Most of the police, fire, etc. have gone to truncated 800 Mhz frequencies now, though.
I have a 210XLT (the next version up), it was my first scanner. I still
use it to monitor Winnipeg Transit's radio traffic on days of inclement weather. Much better than using their app, as it gives context as to *why* your bus is late (roads, accidents, hazards, breakdowns, etc).
I have a 210XLT (the next version up), it was my first scanner. I still use V>to monitor Winnipeg Transit's radio traffic on days of inclement weather. Mu V>better than using their app, as it gives context as to *why* your bus is late V>(roads, accidents, hazards, breakdowns, etc).
I wonder why there are saving all the lower frequencies now? TV moved up and others services.
I wonder why there are saving all the lower frequencies now? TV moved up and others services.
When TV moved it, it was supposedly so they could resell those frequencies to other commercial interests. I assumed it was phones but who knows.
Quoting MRO to Dumas Walker <=-
there's money in them thar bands.
When TV moved it, it was supposedly so they could resell those frequencies to other commercial interests. I assumed it was phones but who knows.
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