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Army Stuff - Radio Stuff - Electronics Stuff - Software Stuff - Dari Stuff - College Stuff - Stuffy Stuff

Army Stuff(Edit)

Infantry Stuff(Edit)

  • EIB Station C1 (Shift from Known Point Practice) - This is one of the more technical stations, so it lends itself to some practice. The same skill is used in both Shift from Known Point and Call for Fire.
  • M249 (SAW) Tool Use - Because almost no one uses it to its fullest, this is an excerpt from the manual.
  • M4 Qualification Smartstrip - The order of the targets (and their ranges) is a published, fixed standard. If you don't use the info, you're not using all means rightfully available to you. This can definitely help those who are struggling on the range.
    • Particularly surprising engagements are marked with arrows.
    • Exactly wide enough that you can laminate them with packing tape when you don't have lamination paper handy.
    • 3 to a sheet - why waste paper?
    • Created with LaTeX (source available).
    • Caveat: The "left"/"right" clues change depending on your Fort's range.
  • SFAS Land Navigation Tips - Get it right or pay the price.

Bookish Stuff(Edit)

  • GT Improvement - GT scores should be over 110 to get the most out of opportunities in the Army. This is my sketch of the methods to get there.
  • Going to College in the Army - So many soldiers want to do this but don't. This will at least take the "I didn't know how to" excuse away.
  • Pre-Basic Training Task List Study - I made/used before I joined. There is absolutely no justification for joining as an E-1. It ends up being in the $thousand+ range just for doing a few tasks, and here is a simple study tool for the "hard" parts.
  • Easy AKO Logins - Logging into AKO is not as easy as other sites. There are a few reasons why, and I'll try to explain everything I know about it.
  • Logging in to AKO Webmail with Google Chrome on Linux - The riddle is cracked.

Big-Picture Stuff(Edit)

Obscure Stuff(Edit)

  • SFAR - Instructions for adding SF Applicants into the Database for Ft. Drum OJTs (pretty obscure---mostly just for my use).
  • DTS Tips - The Army travel auth/voucher system---these tips were made for people who used it all day. Thankfully, this hasn't been me for a long time)
  • No Getting High in the Army - Even in ways that are legal for civilians.

Radio Stuff(Edit)

Backpack Kit(Edit)

My (initial) goal is to make all parts of a backpack kit that will fit in a 7.62mm ammo can sized box, transmit CW on 40m. I plan to build, roughly in this order:

  • Transciever - SW-40+
  • Morse Key - Starting with a junky straight key. Anything to get on the air.
  • Iambic Bug - Still looking for that perfect design
  • Antennas - Constrained by neighborhood rules, mostly.
  • Power - Generated or battery

Later on(Edit)

Big Amp - (QRP is cooler, but booming is kind of neat in a different way)

Antenna Tuner - Will just cut to freq for the first revision, but later on I'll want to make a few tuners

Wilder(Edit)

Interior Crocodile Oscillator - Awesome idea to teach/learn radio design using homemade CRT oscilloscopes.

Yaesu FT-840(Edit)

My Vibroplex Brass Racer(Edit)

Communication Theory(Edit)

Commo Systems To Know - CW, Finger-spelling, etc.

- Six functions of language

Communication Equation - ...

Electronics Stuff(Edit)

Software Stuff(Edit)

Clipboard.pm(Edit)

  • http://search.cpan.org/~king/ - I made this a long time ago, but it's a darned handy set of scripts. In fact, I am annoyed whenever I'm at a machine that doesn't have clipedit and friends.

Dari Stuff(Edit)

College Stuff(Edit)

Stuffy Stuff(Edit)