The annual balloon fox hunt will take place on Sunday, September 11th. A probe built by radio amateurs will be launched underneath a weather balloon at KNMI in De Bilt (Dutch weather institute). After the launch a always spectacular hunt
A great birthday present this year: a BuddiPole! Always wanted a simple but flexible portable antenna for the outdoor activities. Until now I used a glass fiber fishing rod with 2 pieces of wire so I could work on 20m. But that is not a small package which you can drop in your rucksack easily. [...]
Yesterday I was waiting eagerly (like the rest of the world) for the new Mac OSX 10.7 Operating System to pop-up in the Mac App Store. I did seen some nice video’s on Apple site of the WWDC 2011 where Steve Jobs (among others) showed some new features of Lion. Around 14:30 local time Lion [...]
Is this the beginning of web3.0? Interesting to see the struggle from blogs to Twitter to social networks to perfect information overload to…. something new?
A while ago I wrote about weird load signals I heard in the HF-spectrum. Mischa, PA1OKZ pointed me out that they probably are Digital Radio Mondiale signals. And indeed, when Mischa and I were checking the most loud signals I had encountered, it were DRM-broadcastings. So another mystery is solved. Thanks Mischa, for pointing this [...]
After I did see this YouTube video I was convinced I had to try one of these Solid State Drives in my MacMini. Googling around I stumbled on this help page. From here it was child play. Because my Mac Mini always had TimeMachine turned on there was a backup of the disk on my [...]
Lot’s of stuff going on here at the PA1JIM Headquarters but surprisingly little radio stuff! Since my encounter with Andrew Madson from Open Reel Softto get Aether working with my Kenwood TS-590 (Andrew is a really nice helpful and patience guy!), I’m all in C-programming. Final goal: writing my own apps for the iFamily (Mac, [...]
The last few years I could trust on the hosting expertise of one of my former colleagues. He supplied me with a nice virtual machine on one of his servers. Unfortunately he informed me he is not be able to supply me with this (free) hosting facility anymore. That is a bit of a bummer [...]
Last weekend another edition of the Dutch PACC contest was active on the bands. Every year it is an exciting time around the second weekend of february. This year for me it extra exciting because as new contestmanager of clubstation PI4RCG. A few months ago I had the idea to build a simple multi-multi-station at [...]
This weekend I participated in the RTTY sprint contest of the British Amateur Radio Teledata Group (BARTG). As a first timer I had to learn quickly about the integration of N1MM logger and MMTTY. When the contest started I discovered there are no default macro’s in MMTTY. So I had to write time along making [...]