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MicroTrak 8000 FA - frequency agile... |
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| Topic: Technology |
9:26 pm EST, Dec 12, 2007 |
I am pleased to announce that we have the new Micro-trak 8000 FA
(frequency agile ) unit ready for order! Byon has them up on his web
page and you can download the manual and config software as of today:
http://byonics.com/microtrak/mt8000fa.php Its nice to finally be able
to meet the multi-channel requirements of North American SAR teams,
clubs, and high altitude experimenters! This unit should also be of
interest to European, Australian, Japanese and even Swedish DOD users! Allen
VHS
KG6HXO
Cool device... and the price tag is still less than a new mobile and a tiny track.... good for city folk... MicroTrak 8000 FA - frequency agile... |
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United States Early Radio History |
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7:23 pm EST, Dec 11, 2007 |
Articles and extracts about early radio and related technologies, concentrating on the United States in the period from 1897 to 1927
Cool! United States Early Radio History |
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Nitrogen Triiodide Detonation |
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| Topic: Science |
10:36 pm EST, Dec 9, 2007 |
A ring stand is set up with two rings, each holding a filter paper spread with nitrogen triiodide. The bottom filter paper is touched with a feather, causing an explosion that detonates the other sample of nitrogen triiodide. Close up views and slow motion of this very dangerous reaction are shown.
I older friend of mine said they would paint this on windows and let a fly loose and watch the windows break... And sandwich it in between duct tape and let it dry and run it over with a car or stick it in door jam... hehe *evil grin* Nitrogen Triiodide Detonation |
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10:26 am EST, Dec 9, 2007 |
When you browse the web, there is a great deal of important content that becomes inaccessible as soon as you walk away from your personal computer. Whether it's the driving directions that you looked up or your favorite sports teams' latest scores, you lose access to that information as soon as you turn off your computer. Mobile browsing is intended to solve this problem: just use the browser on your phone to access the content you need. However, as we all know, this isn’t the greatest experience; there is too much data to download, the data is hard to reach, the content isn’t formatted for the phone. Quickly retrieving specific pieces of information using a mobile device needs to be easier. Project Joey brings the Web content you need most to your mobile phone by allowing you to easily send it to your device. You can quickly mark content that is important to you and have that content always available while using your mobile phone. The premise is this: you can use Firefox to send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS content, and Live Bookmarks to your phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps all of the content up-to-date. You can then use your phone's browser or the Joey application on your phone to view and manage what you have uploaded. The goal is to investigate the mobile space using a desktop-centric model. Like many other Mozilla projects, there are no plans to productize Joey. We will work with the community to build a compelling and usable tool that people will enjoy using. Although we are in the early stages of development, much of Joey is usable today. Feel free to go to http://joey.labs.mozilla.com using Firefox, create an account, and give Joey a try.
I like this idea... There is a wiki to set it up on your own server... This would be interesting to extend meme streams to your phone.... Labs/Joey - MozillaWiki |
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11:44 pm EST, Dec 8, 2007 |
Joseph Gellings, WB9WOL, a longtime electrical engineer for Bell Laboratories who helped develop microwave communications and lay the first transatlantic telephone cable to Europe, passed away November 29 due to heart complications; he was 89. According to relatives, Gellings acquired a ham radio in his early teens. "His parents needed to coerce him into going to bed, because he'd stay up all night communicating with people from around the world," daughter Ginny Cooney recalled. It was his passion for ham radio that later sparked an interest in electronics, she said. Gellings attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He later received a master's degree in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University in Columbus. In 1944, Gellings began working for Bell Labs in Summit, New Jersey, where he initially helped develop microwave communication systems for use during World War II. "That technology aided both land-to-land and air-to-land communications within the military," said his son, Joe, also an electrical engineer. In 1955, Gellings was assigned by Bell Labs to oversee the laying of the first underwater transatlantic telephone cable, from Newfoundland to Scotland. That cable, nearly 3 inches wide at various points with about seven layers of insulation, was in use for 22 years, before being retired in 1978, Cooney said. In 1966, Gellings moved with his family to Oswego, Illinois after being transferred by Bell Labs to its Naperville offices. There, he participated in the development of solid-state digital switching for telephone calls, before retiring in 1976. Gellings is survived by two children, Joseph of Shawano, Wisconsin and Ginny Cooney of Wheaton, Illinois; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Joseph Gellings Dies... |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
11:00 pm EST, Dec 8, 2007 |
TED Notepad is a growing freeware editor for true plain-text. It looks like a small Notepad, but is more and more fertile in innovative features, text-processing functions and other tools. All of them on hotkeys; all designed for quicker and advanced editing. The light-weight portable application fits on USB drive and loads instantly with no installation required. TED Notepad is designed especially for daily writing of notes, lists, scripts and html files. Get ready for a simple text editor, yet full of new features and text tools - you will never learn them all. Don't type, ted it!
Some of us are stuck on windows... so lets replace the crappy MS tools with software we can use... Like TED... Give it a shot... What do you use to edit files in XP? TED Notepad |
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