For Our King, Only

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)

• 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

My Vibroplex Brass Racer(Edit)

• 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)

• Commo Systems To Know - CW, Finger-spelling, etc.
• Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication - "The mother of all models"
• Six functions of language
• referential (= contextual information)
• aesthetic (= auto-reflection)
• emotive (= self-expression)
• conative (= vocative or imperative addressing of receiver)
• phatic (= checking channel working)
• metalingual (= checking code working)
• Paul Watzlawick
• One Cannot Not Communicate
• All communication includes, apart from the plain meaning of words, more information
• Both the talker and the receiver of information structure the communication flow differently and therefore interpret their own behaviour during communicating as merely a reaction on the other's behaviour ... Human communication cannot be desolved into plain causation and reaction strings, communication rather appears to be cyclic.
• Human communication involves both digital and analog modalities: Communication does not involve the merely spoken words (digital communication), but non-verbal and analog-verbal communication as well.
• Inter-human communication procedures are either symmetric or complementary, depending on whether the relationship of the partners is based on differences or parity. (?)
• Narrowband Communication - Sprawls, but looks worthwhile
• Constructed Languages - Like Esperanto, Lojban. Just a curiosity.

Nonsense:(Edit)

• Words that can be spelled with dits and dahs swapped

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.