For Our King, Only

Christ is the Only Way to God - More and more I hear people try to say something that tries to melt all religions into one "basically the same" mushpot. You can reject Christ, or you can reject the rest, but you cannot possibly accept both. I describe why I know it on this page.(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. The difference between E-2 and E-1 pay ends up being in the $thousand+ range, and the PBTL is just a few tasks. 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.
• CIF for PCS - How to figure out which items will go with you.
• Logging in to AKO Webmail with Google Chrome on Linux - The riddle is cracked.

Big-Picture Stuff(Edit)

• Jihadism

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.

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

Test Equipment(Edit)

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)

• Brochure PDF
• User Manual PDF
• Service Manual PDF
• Specifications (from Universal Radio) - http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/2319spec.html
• FAQ - http://jim.jingozian.tripod.com/ft840faq.html (a few good tips, including out-of-band xmit)
• Sound-card Interfacing: http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/interface.html
• Hook-up points: http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/inter_ft.html (Bottom line: 'AF OUT' = RCA jack at back, 'Mic Input' = pin 8 i/p, pin 7 gnd; 'PTT Acc' = RCA at back; 'KEY Input' = at back)
• CAT Interface: http://www.eham.net/articles/2800

Morse(Edit)

• Learn CW Online - Best interface I've seen, web or not. Operate mouse-free if you want.
• Vibroplex Brass Racer + 8044 Keyer - Nice mod, I might need to do this.

Calculation(Edit)

• gsmc manpage/tutorial: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/gsmc.1.html
• Ampacity and AWG number

Communication Theory(Edit)

Nonsense:(Edit)

• Words that can be spelled with dits and dahs swapped

Clipboard.pm(Edit)

http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard - 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.

Here's how to get it:

• Set up the cpan CLI
• Run:

  cpan

• Then type:

  install Clipboard

• Then check out the goods:
• clipedit - Quick way to edit the contents of the clipboard
• clipaccumulate - Loops and keeps track of everything you copy, adding them together at the end.
• clipfilter - Apply a textual transformation to the clipboard contents (for example, URI escape with -uri)
• clipjoin - Clean up spurious whitespace
• clipbrowse - Send to your web browser (opening in a new tab, usually)
• And, of course, The Module API, which is just:

  use Clipboard;
  print Clipboard->paste;
  Clipboard->copy('foo');