Steve’s Weblog (M3SXA)

Apple iPad

Wonder how much it will cost here, USA prices are:

wifi model only start at £330 for the 16Gb and wi-fi +3G 64Gb £545 bet you can add substantially more once they are released in rip off Britian.

Me on Google Maps

Spotted on Google

This was taken last year sometime by google maps in Maidstone Kent, I spotted this strange car coming round the roundabout with what looked like a periscope on its roof then spotted the ‘Google’ signs on it…

APRS (update)

The APRS set-up appears to be working well thanks to Steve M0BPQ and receiving well from all of West London and beyond you can view the map at www.aprs.fi and also see the results from the UI-View server at www.furballzone.com:8081 (this is not always running though)

The web pages come from UI-View but were modified by AA5SG but I had to update them them as the links to the QRZ database was out-of-date and also had to re-do the links for the google maps and all appear to work ok now.

Nice weekend and APRS

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…..