Steve’s Weblog (M3SXA)

Nice weekend

Had a nice weekend, sorted out cables, wires and a mess, made room for a Radio, TNC and PSU and am now running a digilink RF to iNet to help out the APRS dead spot in west London thanks to Steve M0BPQ for sorting it all out and the loan of the necessary equipment…

The new car a few months back got a nail in the tyre, now the new tyre has got a nail in that so looks like another £150 bill coming up….

Sad News

This is Reggie our 16 year old who was put to sleep today, he had not been well for several months and was getting very thin, today he was taken to the vets and was found to have kidney failure so the kindest thing to do was to put him to rest.

Such a nice friendly cat will be missed.

New Baby!

Today we had a new addition to the family, baby Cruz was born today at 9:20am Thursday 4th Feb 2010 he weighed in at 7Ib 5oz.

Congratulations to Daniel and Tina the proud parent’s.

Back to work!

Done me first week back at work, all 3 days of it as agency work after Christmas is a bit in short supply but at least I did something and the same again next week…

Also did my first Saturday in ages, jeez I think every f**king idiot was out on the road… “Look here comes a big truck lets change direction at the last moment” some eastern european prat while talking on his mobile phone decides he wants to take the turn off at the last minute, so regardless of what’s coming pull’s across all three lanes and nearly causes a huge accident, not just with me but the several cars that were forced to break to avoid hitting him….

iphone and aprs app

Found a great app if you’re into aprs and you are an amateur radio operator, its called ibcnu and it works very well, more can be found here

The Snow

Well we got some snow last night, only about an inch but they still forecast more for this afternoon…. at least it’s warmed up a little.

Weather Warning for London!!

Just seen this weather warning…..

2010!

My First post for 2010 and it’s a cold one, down to -5c and a severe frost….

A visit from Robin and Ma Yan yesterday and met the new family addition the lovely Ammie what a cutie…. was great to see them again

Playing with a new app on the iphone called iBCNU (I’ll be seeing you) it’s an aprs tracker as used by us amateur radio nerds to track our movements when we’re out and about, it had a few teething problems but version 1.7 seems to have cured this you can visit the site here. or check my movements by going here (The aprs speed police need not bother)

Just about got over my cold/flu which I had over the new year so time for playing on the computer, seems the radio side of things here has taken a back seat for the time being….
73’s

More snow..

Last Thursday night when out driving it was pretty bad, heavy snow fell on my journey from Swindon to Basingstoke and again the weekend just gone we had more snow and last night more came down and I was stuck for two hours on the A406 near Brent cross… it seemed that the rain we had earlier washed off the salt from the roads then the snow fell and settled and turned to compacted ice and caused havoc specially to the west of London M3 and M4 corridors were badly affected (where I was last week) this week (for all three days) I am travelling to Ipswich which once out of London I had clear road’s…. let hope its better tonight…

Snow alert!!!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/se_forecast_weather.html

Been off on all today with some heavy falls of snow that last 10 minutes then vanish!!! still blooming cold though….