Difference between revisions from 2013/09/11 16:48 and 2013/05/07 05:31.
! True Stuff
* [Christ is the Only Way to God] - Often, people try to melt all religions into one, saying they are “basically the same”. You can reject Christ, or you can reject the rest, but you cannot possibly accept both
* [Jesus: Liar, Lunatic, Legend, or Lord?] - A question that everyone must answer (sooner or too late)
* [Small Minds] - Contrary to popular opinion, our brains are insufficient to find truth
* [Do Not Work for Money] - No one can work for both God and Mammon
* [Bad News] - How unrighteous are we?
* [Clean Speech] - Tame the tongue
* [Ha, ha, Just Throwing Firebrands] - May be funny, may be worthless
* [Submit to Authority] - A word that is bitter on the lips, but sweet in the stomach
* [Fair Revelation] - Pondering Romans 1
* [Christians and Debt] - Short version: stay out of debt
* [Christians and Weed] - Surprising results
* [Islamic Editing] - Muslims make some claims about the Bible being changed
* In Progress: [Pursuing Righteousness], [People Who Hate God], [Fallen Angels]…
* [Printable Tract] - The Gospel in a small package
! Army Stuff
!! Infantry Stuff
* [Guard Duty] - The Most-Used, Least-Trained Skill in the Army
* [EIB Station C1 (Shift from Known Point Practice)|./eib/c1/] - 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|./saw-tool/] - Because almost no one uses it to its fullest, this is an excerpt from the manual
* [M4 Qualification Smartstrip|./doc/M16-Smartstrip.pdf] - 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
!! Bookish Stuff
* [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
* [CIF for PCS] - How to figure out which items will go with you
!! Big-Picture Stuff
* [Jihadism]
! Radio Stuff
!! Backpack Kit
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|DIY 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|Backpack Kit Power] - Generated or battery
!! General
[Test Equipment]
[Stable Oscillators]
!! My goals for later on
[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
[Interior Crocodile Oscillator] - Awesome idea to teach/learn radio design using homemade CRT oscilloscopes.
!! Yaesu FT-840
* [Brochure PDF|./ham/FT840-Brochure.pdf]
* [User Manual PDF|./ham/FT840-User_Manual.pdf]
* [Service Manual PDF|./ham/FT840-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
* Cat Interface
** http://n5ztw.com/Yaesu.htm
** CAT Interface: http://www.eham.net/articles/2800
* 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)
!! VHF/UHF
* [Alinco DJ-G7 Official Spec Sheet|http://www.alinco.com/Products/DJ-G7/]
* [Universal-Radio Spec Sheet|http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/ht/1007.html]
* [PCB Log Antenna|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EU7wFsBWQc]
* [Loop Antenna Demo|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCJ_v_6Ah3s&feature=related]
* [Quick Review|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiK_assrQIM] - But I did learn that you can say "cems" to mean "centimeters"
* [Demo of Several Features|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprnhJKUksk]
* [Goofy Tinker-Clinker "Preview"|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dkbFAAaW7w]
!! Calculation
* gsmc manpage/tutorial: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/gsmc.1.html
* [Ampacity and AWG number]
!! [Communication Theory]
!! Silliness
* [Words that can be spelled with dits and dahs swapped|http://panoptic.com/rking/ham/flipwords/]
! Electronics Stuff
[Falstad's Excellent Circuit Simulator|http://panoptic.com/rking/falstad/e-index.html] - Lots of example circuits, good animation/interactivity
[Handy Electronics Youtube Videos]
[Reading Fuses]
[Annotated Schematics]
[Dorkbot PDX|http://dorkbotpdx.org/] - Has potential
[Brainwagon (K6HX)|http://www.brainwagon.org] - Always doing something cool
[A few Java Applets on Physics|http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/] - Under "Electrodynamics"
! Software Stuff
!! Clipboard.pm
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|http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard/scripts/clipedit] - Quick way to edit the contents of the clipboard
** [clipaccumulate|http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard/scripts/clipaccumulate] - Loops and keeps track of everything you copy, adding them together at the end
** [clipfilter|http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard/scripts/clipfilter] - Apply a textual transformation to the clipboard contents (for example, URI escape with -uri)
** [clipjoin|http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard/scripts/clipjoin] - Clean up spurious whitespace
** [clipbrowse|http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard/scripts/clipbrowse] - Send to your web browser (opening in a new tab, usually)
** And, of course, [The Module API|http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard/lib/Clipboard.pm], which is just:{{
use Clipboard;
print Clipboard->paste;
Clipboard->copy('foo');}}
!! Ruby Stuff
* [Hook Methods of Ruby]
* [Haml, QED]
* [TDD]
!! Blender Stuff
* [Blender: Widening a Road] - Kind of a challenging operation
* [Blender: Bed] - Will (hopefully) turn into a real wood project
* [Subdivision Modelling] - An attempt to revamp a famous, but disorganized, document
!! Unix Stuff
* [Automake and Autoconf]
* [gr] - Silly Recursive Grep script (use ag instead!)
* [Vim Stuff]
* [X Keys] - Getting a bit deeper with xmodmap and such
!! Other Stuff
* [Android Phone Crash Workaround]
* [Video Toolchain]
* [Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts]
* [ChaCha]
! Language Stuff
!! Dari
* [AriaDic|http://www.ariadic.com] - Conveniently remaps keyboard when going Farsi->English
* [Persian Internet Radio and Online News Radio|http://www.multilingualbooks.com/online-radio-persian.html]
* Idea: To polish nuances, monologue while being filmed with a native speaker correcting every single flaw; review
!! [Polish]
[Polish]
! Stuffy Stuff
* [How a Normal Brain Becomes a Pea Brain]
* [Glued Words] | [OppiWords]
* ["Proof" of Common Ancestor Evolution]
* [Goofy RosettaStone Images]
* [Movies]