{"id":2599,"date":"2010-02-21T21:18:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2010-02-21T21:18:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:18:33","slug":"sunday-snowy-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/21\/sunday-snowy-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Snowy Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of snow here on the eastern edge of Kansas. We got a good dump of slush on Friday but with the temp too high none of it stuck. Then Saturday afternoon the temp dropped below 32d F and decided to stay around 29d F. Saturday night the snow started coming down and has not stopped since.
\nThe snow has been a big hit with Sarah:
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\nMy trusty Toyota Tundra (no recalls yet… keeping my fingers crossed) is wearing a nice, thick coat of snowy goodness:
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\nI’ve rekindled<\/a> my interest in EchoLink and now have a full blown EchoIRLP node (EchoLink Node #496698 and IRLP Node #3370) and am using a TM-D710A to run the node as well as my APRS weather station<\/a>. What I have been enjoying most so far about IRLP is the ability to tweak and play with the linux software via a (or multiple) terminal session(s). It is helping me improve my linux skills.
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\nSpeaking of linux, I have been piecing together my iPORTABLE<\/a>-mounted station. Each box comfortably fits two components. Box #1 has an IC-7000 and an LDG AT-200pro tuner. Box #2 has a Dell Zino HD<\/a> and an Alinco DM-330MV power supply. Box #3 will have an embedded EchoIRLP node<\/a> and a TM-D710A. Box#1 and #2 are already assembled and it makes for a nice, portable working station. Back to linux… it has long been a desire of mine to switch as much of my computing to Ubuntu as possible. Currently the Dell Zino has a dual boot configuration of Vista (which was already installed) and Ubuntu 9.10. I have been trying to put together a nice amateur radio software collection on the Zino and have had mixed results. For rig control, it is hard to beat the Windows program Ham Radio Deluxe<\/a>. The closest linux version I’ve been able to find is an application called Grig<\/a>. Not quite what I want to take advantage of all the bells and whistles that the IC-7000 has. I’ve been listening to the excellent podcast Linux in the Ham Shack<\/a> for recommendations (episode #13<\/a> is dedicated to rig control), perusing the January 2010<\/a> issue of Linux Journal<\/i> (the issue is dedicated to Amateur Radio and Linux), and am also looking at shackbox<\/a>, which is a linux distribution designed with amateur radio in mind. I think I am going to give shackbox a try and see how it goes.<\/p>\n

… all of this on a snowy Sunday.<\/p>\n

If you get a chance, connect to my EchoIRLP node (EchoLink Node #496698<\/a> and IRLP Node #3370<\/a>) and say hello. You’ll help me procrastinate in finishing my paper on the Army Amateur Radio System.
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Lots of snow here on the eastern edge of Kansas. We got a good dump of slush on Friday but with the temp too high none of it stuck. Then Saturday afternoon the temp dropped below 32d F and decided to stay around 29d F. Saturday night the snow started coming down and has not … Continue reading “Sunday Snowy Sunday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6,7,11],"tags":[30,74,80,148,187,238,259],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-family","category-fun","category-radio","tag-aprs","tag-dell-zino-hd","tag-echolink-irlp","tag-linux","tag-periodicals","tag-tm-d710a","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-FV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}