Category Archives: Technology

Weather

We all have an interest in the weather to some level or other.  I finally cracked earlier this year and got a weather station, a Davis Vantage VUE with a Weatherlink USB interface. Unfortunately, not long after I got it … Continue reading

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KX1 #2213

So, the Rugby World cup is over, Vettel has won another Grand Prix, it’s a bank holiday Monday and it is raining buckets out. What do to? Press play on Soldersmoke 137, fire up the soldering-iron and finish building a … Continue reading

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Hmm, I wonder.

One day, at the start of the summer (?), I was looking at some of the aerials on our building and wondered what the spectrum was like around the TSSG building in Carriganore, and indeed Waterford City. I quickly threw … Continue reading

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Full steam ahead

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The time.

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Corliss Steam Engine

This beauty is just inside the entrance to the Reynolds-Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada. I prevailed upon her good-self to stop off here for a few hours.

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Happy Birthday Sputnik

Sputnik 1 was launched on the 4th of October, 1957.

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iPhone and charging

I (deliberately) flattened my iPhone today so I could charge it with its own charger. I about 19:00 I plugged it in to my kill a watt meter to see how much power it uses.  I’m assuming the meter isn’t … Continue reading

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iPhone and PV charging

A few weeks ago I was looking around the lab at the remnants of old projects and realised that we probably had enough bits to put together a solar powered charging station for phones. I.e. a 30 Watt PV panel … Continue reading

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FASTRAC

Got up this morning, checked my mheard list and saw an entry I hadn’t seen before for FAST2. Checked my logfiles and I found this (output from listen -t -a): 1200mk: fm FAST2 to BEACON ctl UI pid=F0(Text) len 123 … Continue reading

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