Has anyone opened up their EeePC and connected a pigtail to its MiniPCIe wifi card for stumbling? Looking at some internal EeePC pics online it should be quite trivial to do (even if it does void your warranty). It's mentioned online that it uses u.fl connectors on the board, I assume a pigtail for this could be made quite easily with RP-SMA on the other end, does anyone have any thoughts about this?
Some pics online of the 701's 802.11G card (not my pics, just some i found):
I have a small quantity of chimney antenna mounts. These are all 'as new' condition. Very quick and easy to setup. No drilling required. Best and easiest way of mounting an antenna on older style houses.
I have used one of these at a setup for the last two years supporting a 3m tall mast with a 15dB antenna. It has proved to be strong enough to survive through the storms in winter.
Each kit comes with:
antenna Bracket
wire strap
wire clamp
x2 I-bolts
x2 U-bolts
x6 nuts
x6 washers
$15 each (normally around $33 at Bunnings)
Pickup from Seaton or DryCreek (depending what time/day)
Delivery *may* be available for little to no extra charge depending on your location and amount purchased
So its that time of month again ;) Yes the intense radio/puter/geek meeting weeks =) Adelaide Hills Amatuer Radio Society -
VK5BAR are having their monthly meeting on Thursday the 15th, May. I joined up as a member at the AGM in January. I finally received my certificate for my foundation licence last week, so I'm all good to go =)
I have a 10watt radio on loan from Jacqui and I've manged to listen to the WIA broadcast on Sunday morning. Only just mind, there was so much noise it was barely readable. Thats probably a task for this weekend is to get an antenna sorted for the 80 meter band. That was the clearest of all the available repeaters. The 40 meter band seemed pretty empty. The 10 meter band had the faintest of signals and the only thing I could pick up on 80 meters was the WIA broadcast. I had a 40 meter half wave length dipole strung across the front yard, well maybe more like a inverted vee, still need to build a decent balun too. Maybe HAMs don't get out of bed before 10am like other sane people? Maybe they've all been up late working the radio until the wee hours? ;) I need to get a better space for the radio and get an antenna up more permanently.
Had a bit of fun today ...
omni:~# ping -f -s 1400 192.168.1.7
PING 192.168.1.7 (192.168.1.7) 1400(1428) bytes of data.
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--- 192.168.1.7 ping statistics ---
4765 packets transmitted, 4764 received, 0% packet loss, time 35992ms
Some months ago I purchased a GPS mouse from the map shop. The device is a; G-Mouse GPS, Model GGM309. Its USB, has a 1.5m cable and has a magnetic base. Cost me about $140. You can get them a little cheaper on ebay, but I couldn't wait ;)
So, I've been driving around, with the laptop and gps in the car, mapping out various roads on my commutes and side trips =). Many of those trails have been uploaded to the Open Street Map site. I also joined the Australian OSM talk mail list. It has been very useful as there are a bunch of local folks that have offered lots of advice on specific problems that I experiencing. The main one was the tools was the gpsdrive to gpx conversion tool. With this new gpsdrive2gpx.pl tool, I can convert the gps trails easily. Lots more fun to be had =)
So the setup is pretty simple, the gps plugs into the USB on the laptop, GPSd talks directly to the gps and all the clients connect to GPSd. I fire up gpsdrive, wait for the gps data to sync as the satellites coverage to settle. From there I drive to my destination and save the gps trail. When I land on a network, I convert the file to .gpx format and then upload to OpenStreetMap. Wait for the .gpx filed to be verfied then fire up the online editor and trace out the gps trail and name the streets and roads. Some time later the streets are rendered and shown on the public map.Easy.
Rob just sent us a link to the new web site for the Elizabeth Amateur Radio Club.
"The Elizabeth Amateur Radio Club is an active group of like minded radio and electronics enthusiasts. The Club meets twice a month, once for a business meeting and the second is a technical discussion on a specific subject or simply a social chat. These are the 1st and 3rd wednesday of the month additionally there are two "on-air" nets that occur on the 2nd and 4th wednesday all are welcome." -- www.earc.org.au
I have a Hills 2.4ghz 25db microwave antenna for sale in very good condition for $70. Please email me at if you are interested.
Here are some pictures of the waveguide antenna I made. I followed the plans at http://www.trevormarshall.com.
It'd be nice to know what you think about it. You can email me here.
