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True Stuff - Army Stuff - Radio Stuff - Electronics Stuff - Software Stuff - Language Stuff - College Stuff - Stuffy Stuff

True Stuff(Edit)

Army Stuff(Edit)

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.

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)

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)

VHF/UHF(Edit)

Electronics Stuff(Edit)

Falstad's Excellent Circuit Simulator - Lots of example circuits, good animation/interactivity.

Handy Electronics Youtube Videos

Reading Fuses

Annotated Schematics

Dorkbot PDX - Has potential

Brainwagon (K6HX) - Always doing something cool.

A few Java Applets on Physics - Under "Electrodynamics"

Software Stuff(Edit)

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');

Language Stuff(Edit)

Dari(Edit)

College Stuff(Edit)

Stuffy Stuff(Edit)