Yesterday the girl and I decided to go for a little drive in my new car over the ferry and get some dinner. Here’s a photo I snapped on the ferry ride.
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New Car
Well, I’ve got a shiny new car. My old car was having some mechanical issues, and it was going to cost more to fix them than I was willing to put into it (more than the car is worth), and had some savings I could put as a decent down payment, so I got a new 2012 Subaru Outback.
Most of all I’m pleased about having a car that should be reliable and last quite a while, For once having a car where nothing is worn out or broken and last but not least having a warranty where if something does break I can take it to the dealer and have THEM fix it.
I’m not opposed to doing some work on a car, but it gets old really fast when you just need the thing to work, or can’t necessarily trust it to go X miles without something breaking.
Anyway, to summarize. I’m quite pleased.
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Sprung Spring
Just was walking back to work from lunch yesterday and the trees outside the office caught my eye. Thought I’d share them with you.
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Old Photo
The girl was digging through some old family photos this evening, and ran across this gem.
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20M WSPR Testing
A buddy of mine and I recently decided to do some testing with WSPR on 20M. It seems to be that the distance between our QTHs is enough for 30m to work during the evening, and we wanted to see what 20m would do.
So, the plan was to set up the computers and radios and let them run for 24 hours straight. After which, I’d grab the data from wsprnet.org and plot it out real nice.
Anyway, here’s the plots. The Y axis is SNR as reported by WSPR, and the X axis is Pacific Time. As another tidbit of info, Sunrise during the testing period happened at 6:49, and sunset happened at 17:55.
And here’s the Excel file: 20m_WSPR
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