For Our King, Only

Infantry Stuff(Edit)

• Guard Duty - The Most-Used, Least-Trained Skill in the Army
• 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

General(Edit)

Test Equipment

Stable Oscillators

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

VHF/UHF(Edit)

• Alinco DJ-G7 Official Spec Sheet
• Universal-Radio Spec Sheet
• PCB Log Antenna
• Loop Antenna Demo
• Quick Review - But I did learn that you can say "cems" to mean "centimeters".
• Demo of Several Features
• Goofy Tinker-Clinker "Preview"

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');