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hirezIt's still January, isn't it? Good. Wouldn't do to be wishing the year away already. That comes later when it's warm out and you feel like you're wasting the daylight in mucking about with computers or mithering in front of the telly.
One of the wonders of keeping a Linux box for a home workstation is being able to plumb a whole selection of unlikely programs together and have it mostly work. Thus one can use GQRX to be a front-end for some other c0de that reprograms a telly dongle into a wideband radio scanner, which enables one to find signals that might be RTTY and pipe the audio into an entirely different front-end that's a ham radio modem which understands all sorts of data standards.
I probably need a bigger antenna. This is how it starts, isn't it?
In slightly tiresome motoring news, we discover that the coolant radiator and the gearbox radiator have gone a bit porous. The foam in the coolant header tank isn't the sort of thing that Heston Blumenthal-Services would find interesting. Or perhaps he might. Hey ho. It also will need a new timing chain, among other things.
On the positive side, the boost is reportedly restored to 'wahey!' but I am under firm instructions not to try it out lest the slushbox fill up with water.
When the thing's running right I should take it out and do many many miles and absolutely not allow some different dozy mare to park a Corsa in the engine bay.
One of the wonders of keeping a Linux box for a home workstation is being able to plumb a whole selection of unlikely programs together and have it mostly work. Thus one can use GQRX to be a front-end for some other c0de that reprograms a telly dongle into a wideband radio scanner, which enables one to find signals that might be RTTY and pipe the audio into an entirely different front-end that's a ham radio modem which understands all sorts of data standards.
I probably need a bigger antenna. This is how it starts, isn't it?
In slightly tiresome motoring news, we discover that the coolant radiator and the gearbox radiator have gone a bit porous. The foam in the coolant header tank isn't the sort of thing that Heston Blumenthal-Services would find interesting. Or perhaps he might. Hey ho. It also will need a new timing chain, among other things.
On the positive side, the boost is reportedly restored to 'wahey!' but I am under firm instructions not to try it out lest the slushbox fill up with water.
When the thing's running right I should take it out and do many many miles and absolutely not allow some different dozy mare to park a Corsa in the engine bay.
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Date: 2015-01-17 02:26 am (UTC)Good luck with the vehicle.
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Date: 2015-01-17 08:02 am (UTC)Does your RTTY receiver autopost to Twitter yet ?