Well I’ve managed to resolve an issue I was having with my wordpress blog. Where the post screen was a white font on a white background. Not much fun.
Oh well it’s fixed now.
Anyway should be posting a little bit more now.
de VK3IVY
Well I just aquired an iPod touch. Nice little device though I am still getting used to it’s keyboard.
One thing I noticed is that there didn’t seem to be many ham applications for the little device. I hope I can fix it with a number of little useful applications. For example a call sign look up tool.
~ivy
Well it’s all official, Sherbrook Community School is getting their Ariss contact sometime in the last week of October.
So happy for the kids and kinda jealous too. I’d would of loved a chance like this when I was in school.
So Arks Academy did their last foundation course for the year, and yet another 100% pass rate. Which makes me very very happy.
Next year is going to be a lot of fun with foundation courses, standard and advanced upgrade courses, and not forgetting one or two regulations courses.
Lots of fun.
Well I’ve been working on a radio training site as a catch all for radio training documentation and licensing. Covering everything for the foundation, standard, and advanced license classes in Australia.
So Far so good, but getting some documentation into it is somewhat time consuming. But it’s going to be a project worth doing.
Now I need to get this site to show up when people search.
De VK3IVY
Well a few of us have been spending time down at the Sherbrooke Community School with their new school based radio club.
The main aim is to make this self sustaining. So far we’ve got a few of the teachers licensed and a fair few kids too.
We’ve got the kids contesting and that’s a lot of fun.
I don’t know I find it quite rewarding to watch these kids work.
Well I and a group of others ran a regulations course at the Sherbrooke Community School.
All my students passed which I have to say was a real buzz.
Been running a few foundation courses as well..
More soon, I’ve been slack updating.
~Ivy
Well I have the day off . So I might come up on the 160 metre coffee club, my antenna “tunes” but that doesn’t really mean too much it may tune but who knows if it will radiate, most likely not to be honest.
But at least I can hear the coffee club net, I don’t know if I will jump on or not. I find it a little nervous, coming up on a new net. Especially something like this.
To be honest it is quite noisy, though the removal of the large amount of switching power supplies here made it somewhat better. I may have a scan round on 20 metres a bit later on in the day and see if I can work anything would be a bit of fun.
One of the big issues with technology like D-Star and the AOR ARD9000. Is that both of them use the propraitary AMBE codec.
To me the issue here is that with a closed codec, once can’t use the advances in computing power to do a lot of the hard work in software. Instead one has to buy expensive hardware (not to knock hardware, I still prefer hardware musical synthesizers.)
There appears to be one free codec that is called Speex, now to work out how to do the rest.
Don’t know if I’m out of my depth, anyway it will be fun trying.
Well last week Hannah and myself found ourselves at the Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club Steam Festival, at Scoresby. It was a lot of fun, and we both helped with manning the EMDRC radio tent, trying to promote ameteur radio.
Anyway I was asked by Rob (VK3DN) to record a short piece about it for the WIA news. Which after a bit of scripting and many takes (about 20) was finally done. And on sunday the 15th of March it was played.
If you want to listen the news broadcast can be found here.