This tech has been around for a while, but with DHS making more grants to local police departments in the next 24 months, you need to be aware of this. Uses for this tech allow the police to see what you have. Whether they use it to peek at what you own as a ‘preview’ in preparation for requesting a warrant, assuming they go through those motions, would allow them to add additional details to the warrant… again, assuming that they do that. So many agencies today don’t even bother because the Constitution is being ignored wholesale, especially by federal agencies. Suppose the ATF uses this to scan your conveyance, your domicile, your storage shed or garage. The abuses of this agency is not merely legendary, it is infamous. Did you buy your guns privately (without papers), or through proper channels? If you did it privately so as to avoid registration (which is legal in many states), ATF may have a ‘heightened interest’ in your property. This van’s stated capabilities also include scanning for specific elements such as nitrogen and oxygen, or sulfur, or aluminum, or silver or gold. Should the government know whether you have silver/gold coin? Should the government know if you own machine tools such as a lathe? Or whether you make things using press-form technology and powdered aluminum, etc? The purpose of this technology is to identify private citizens who possess the resources, materials, and equipment that would be valuable to a resistance movement. This technology is

Texas Instruments Makes HPC Play with New Multicore DSP Chips
When Texas Instruments (TI) added floating point smarts to its new digital signal processor (DSP) to support the fourth-generation wireless standard, it found itself with a commercial chip that had some of the most impressive flops/watt performance on
Read more on HPCwire

Axxcelera Broadband Selects Freescale Processors to Power Next Generation LTE
The Axxcelera eNodeBs will incorporate one of Freescale's QorIQ Qonverge systems on chip and the six-core MSC8157 digital signal processor (DSP). The QorIQ Qonverge device is a base station-on-chip based on a common architecture.
Read more on MarketWatch (press release)

Mercer County ham radio operators needed to assist in emergencies
By Chuck Gysi Mercer County's amateur radio operators are needed to provide communications assistance in emergency and disaster situations. The Mercer County Emergency Management Agency is recruiting hams to become a part of the Mercer County Amateur
Read more on Aledo Times Record

Local amateur radio club honours 150th birthday of Dr. James Naismith
This occurred nine years later (1900) when Reginald Fessenden – born in East Bolton (Canada's Eastern Townships) – transmitted speech by radio waves. This weekend (Nov. 5-6) the Almonte Amateur Radio Club (AARC) will commemorate the 150th anniversary
Read more on EMC Almonte/Carleton Place

Some cool APRS images:

aprs terminal arduino pro

Image by mpechner

aprs terminal callsign entered

Image by mpechner

aprs terminal arduino pro

Image by mpechner

Me setting up my new HT for APRS. I went over this pretty quick, will probably do more videos about the radio in the near future.. Stay tuned

Some cool AFSK images:

Measuring output from the FoxTrak, adjusting RV1

Image by Richard Corfield (M0RJC)
Yaesu specify an input of 5mV into a 2K load. Here I have a 2K resistor across the radio connector. When I first set this up I pushed the resistor ends and the probe into the pins of the DB9 socket.

The FoxTrak has been commanded to output a mixed signal using its configuration program.

Certain disturbing sounds really do make your arm hairs stand up
The same listeners then rated the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the sounds while researchers measured physical indicators of distress: the listeners' heart rate, blood pressure, and the electrical conductivity of their skin.
Read more on Toronto Star

Space Tech Takes Bat Signal to Sea
When someone is lost at sea, the distress transmitter connects with the Cospas-Sarsat Search and Rescue system — satellites in space that listen around the clock for activated beacons in the 406 – 406.1 MHz frequency band.
Read more on Fox News

A study aims to pinpoint why we hate certain sounds
The same listeners then rated the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the sounds while the researchers measured physical indicators of distress: the listeners' heart rate, blood pressure, and the electrical conductivity of their skin.
Read more on Bend Bulletin

Check out these Ham Antenna images:

Tower3

Image by VA5LF
Longer shot of the tower section in the hole, before the concrete got poured.

200 personas compraron el iPhone 4S en su primera noche en España
SSTV, PSK31, HFFAX, etc. Y mucho más que para contarlo necesitaría un blog completo. Y dices que no se usar la tecnología?. Ja Ja Ja, Dicen que la ignorancia es la madre del atrevimiento, vuestro caso se puede definir con esa frase. cuéntame mas.
Read more on ADSLZone.net

Some cool Ham Radio images:

Ham Radio Field Day ’05 3

Image by jasoneppink
Turns out I had stumbled onto Amateur Radio Field Day 2005. I’d never heard of this before! Apparently ham radio operators emergency preparedness skills and play a game to make it fun. I was curious so I talked to this guy for a few minutes and he explained everything, except he couldn’t really explain how one scores points. I kept asking questions, but I guess I wasn’t asking the right questions.

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Using Ferrites
Ferrites work by greatly reducing the current flow, at the interfering frequency, in the 'antenna' that is the root of the problem. The 'wire' is made to look like a high-impedance at the interfering frequency, thus severely reducing the current flow,
Read more on Radio magazine (press release)

Check out these Digital Signal Processor images:

1996 DSP 56800 Family Manual

Image by JD Hancock
In February 1996 Motorola unveiled a new digital signal processor family whose manual was my responsibility as part of the technical writing staff. I was told it was the first time that the DSP division had ever published a family manual on time.

This is one of many curious items collected in JD’s House of Miscellany.

Manta Sound Studio 3

Image by Bobolink
This was the last studio to be completed at Manta Sound. It was a state of the art analogue facility with a couple of AMS digital signal processors. After Manta Studio 3, most studios were built for digital recording.

MVI_0156

Image by krunkwerke
The DP/4 in burn-in test mode. While in this mode, it cycles repetitively through a series of self-tests, to confirm that its internals are functioning correctly. Included in these tests are two of particular interest: one which tests each of the ESPs (the Ensoniq custom digital signal processors) and another which tests the DRAM that is attached to each ESP.

Unlike when the unit first arrived on my bench, both the ESP and DRAM tests now pass.

A few nice Backscatter images I found:

Starry night

Image by Caro’s Lines
Well flour really

First snow

Image by Caro’s Lines
The first snow in Bristol this winter

festival (祭り) #4515

Image by Nemo’s great uncle
Pardon the back scatter. It was raining.