Steve’s Weblog (M3SXA)

The iPad release date and price.

Here we go, the cost for the much waited for iPad…

Spanish Grand Prix – Sunday 10th May 2010

FIA Formula 1 constructors’ world championship

Last updated: Sunday, 9 May 2010 14:52 UK

The British grand prix

Are they taking the f**king piss with the price of tickets for this years British Grand Prix, they say from £50….. but the race day event a staggering £185.00 per ticket…. see here how can they justify this price, I for one will be watching on the TV.

Another week….

Well another week over just one night to work then onto days for a week…. oh joy!

Been playing with a small APRS box of trick’s just connect an antenna, power and a gps and away you go, this one comes from Sweden and seems to work well also have a couple of Tiny Track+ 3′s to play with but lots of cables involved there…

Looking forward to the weekend lets hope the sunshine is not blotted out by the volcano dust!!!

F1 Standings

FIA Formula 1 drivers’ world championship
Last updated: Sunday, 4 April 2010 10:49 UK
Position Driver Country Team Points
1 Felipe Massa Brz Ferrari 39
2 Fernando Alonso Spa Ferrari 37
3 Sebastian Vettel Ger Red Bull-Renault 37
4 Jenson Button GB McLaren-Mercedes 35
5 Nico Rosberg Ger Mercedes GP 35
6 Lewis Hamilton GB McLaren-Mercedes 31
7 Robert Kubica Pol Renault 30
8 Mark Webber Aus Red Bull-Renault 24
9 Adrian Sutil Ger Force India-Mercedes 10
10 Michael Schumacher Ger Mercedes GP 9
11 Vitantonio Liuzzi Ita Force India-Mercedes 8
12 Rubens Barrichello Brz Williams-Cosworth 5
13 Jaime Alguersuari Spa Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2
14 Nico Hulkenberg Ger Williams-Cosworth 1
15 Sebastien Buemi Swi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 0
16 Pedro de la Rosa Spa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 0
17 Heikki Kovalainen Fin Lotus-Cosworth 0
18 Karun Chandhok Ind Hispania-Cosworth 0
19 Lucas di Grassi Brz Virgin-Cosworth 0
20 Bruno Senna Brz Hispania-Cosworth 0
21 Jarno Trulli Ita Lotus-Cosworth 0
22 Timo Glock Ger Virgin-Cosworth 0
23 Vitaly Petrov Rus Renault 0
24 Kamui Kobayashi Jpn BMW Sauber-Ferrari 0

FIA Formula 1 constructors’ world championship
Last updated: Sunday, 4 April 2010 10:49 UK
Position Team Points
1 Ferrari 76
2 McLaren-Mercedes 66
3 Red Bull-Renault 61
4 Mercedes GP 44
5 Renault 30
6 Force India-Mercedes 18
7 Williams-Cosworth 6
8 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2
9 BMW Sauber-Ferrari 0
10 Lotus-Cosworth 0
11 Hispania-Cosworth 0
12 Virgin-Cosworth 0

Clash of the titans

Just back from watching the film “Clash of the Titans”, and BoBo the owl does put in few second’s appearance… but the 3D was naff, the trailers before the film were better…

And why does it cost more to see a 3D film??

The film was ok but nothing to shout about, the original was better and thats a first for me to say that.

Give it a miss….

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….