Armageddon Net 29 November 2007

Two Complete Armageddon Nets this week, look, count 'em, two.

More Vaguely amusing banter on 3.666 Mhz than you'll know what to do with.

This week sees amateur radio in Australia taken to a new low with this broadcast covering the following topics.

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PCB Design and Layout, FreePCB from freepcb.com, Gerber Files, Printing Gerber Files, Spice Circuit Simulator, Open Source Software, Software Prices Going Ever Higher, Open Office, Google Documents, Web 2.0 application Paradigm, Reliability of Telephone System,
ADSL Service without Telstra, VOIP, Sevice from Engin, Limitations of VOIP Services, SSB Activity on Beacon Frequency, Bretts Flourescent Light Episode, Essential Viewing List, The Movie The American Way, DVD Players, Streaming Video over internal Networks, HDMI and The Analog Hole, Blueray DVD seems dominant, Play Station 3 plays Blueray, PS3 is Remarkable, Games Consoles for Playing Games Computers for everything else, Humidistat, Moisture Problem at Brett's house, Hydro Shops not Cheap, Alot of Humidity products come from England, Danger from Power Supplies, What it takes to get Westinghoused, Another VK2ZEN & Pater Bob Adventure this time on water, Fishing, Putting Out To Sea, Navigating The Oceans, GPS, Dead Reckoning, Sextants, Availability of maps for GPS, APRS Maps needed For Imminent deployment of APRS Digipeater in Newcastle Area, CYGWIN Xserver for windows from cygwin.com.

Armageddon Net 26 November 2007

This abortive attempt at an Armageddon Net failed 36 minutes in due to bad noise on the 80 meter band, though it remains Vaguely Amusing Banter IN YOUR EAR.

The Armageddon Net, possibly the worlds only podcast recorded by amateur radio operators on 3.666 Mhz in the 80 meter ham radio band.

This episode covers the following topics and introduces a new Armageddon Net Word "Fok"......

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Lawn Maintenance in Diabolical Heat, Transceivers Like 13.8 Volts, Awful Noise on the Band, 2008 Call Book, Explosion of Foundation licenses, Passband Filters, Transmit Bandwidth Adjustment, Automatic Antenna Tuner Switched Off, Analog Metering, Electronic Instruments in Vehicles, And in the 1977 Mini, Calculating Engine Power Output on the Road, Development Environment for the Atmel Microprocessor, Cylinder Pressure Measurement, Tuning Engine on the Road, Exhaust Gas Oxygen sensor, Ethanol Fuel Mixtures, Price Tradeoff Ethanol Fuel, A Foundation License Holder calls in VK2FJMT (Marshall) to discuss ethanol fuels and mini engines.

Armageddon Net 19 November 2007

Vaguely Amusing Banter IN YOUR EAR, on 3.666 Mhz.

This Weeks Armageddon Net includes the following 30 odd diverse and riveting topics.....

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Icom 746/756 memories, keyer/voice recorder usage in contest, charging batteries, Armageddon procedures, Hording Food, Hiding Generators, Podcasting, archive.org, Linux Flash Player Problems, 2 meter IRLP, 1977 VK DXpedition Mini Cooper is Registered, Insurance IS Expensive, Awful FM900 radio, Now Legendary Crankshaft Break, ZEN has no DTMF, Epic uptimes, Great Newcastle Storm Blackout, American Survivalist Movement, Fiber Glass Body Repairs, Supercheap Autos is no longer super cheap, Jacar Battery Charger Kit, SCR's, Crydoms, Gmail unreliability, Mail Servers, Taking Callers, Connection of Plantronics telephone headset to the ICOM 746/756 for VOX operation, Fan Noise Control,Solar Condidtions and DX Openings, PSK31, Firefox Advantages, Windows Automatic Updates, International Beacon Project, 20 meter beam at Westlakes Radio Club, 40 Meter Beam at Westlakes Radio Club, Tentec Radios, Two Receivers (one in each ear).

Armageddon Net Test

It has been along time since the last post and I have had my ICOM 756proII returned in working condition for some time.

Brett VK2TMG and myself have been conducting a late night VOX net on 3.666 Mhz on a weekly basis for while now and we decided to turn it into a podcast as well.

So here is the first experimental one to work out our procedures for doing this.

Hopefully I will be able to post at least 1 a week from now on.

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