Welcome to my website. My kc5goi.net site is more comprehensive. This is a project
that will always be subject to random updates.
I have been a licensed Amateur Radio Operator since 1994. I hold an Extra Class ticket. My main interests are in emergency communications
and getting portable stations on the air. Check me out on QRZ.com.
- GIMP's
home page. If you like
graphics manipulation, you are gonna love GIMP.
- GIMP
for
Windows. I play with GIMP on both the Linux and Windows.
I recommend the use of sound card modes for when you need to send a large message over using voice. Long messages
take much longer and are prone to error. Voice is great for short messages and exchanges but not good for long lists.
and its companion programs provide an excellent method for doing NBEMS via HF/VHF/UHF. NBEMS
utilizes your sound card, a Signalink USB, Rigblaster
or other sound card interface to get the audio from your radio to the computer
so it can be decoded.
Fldigi This is the main site for obtaining Fldigi.
Fldigi download page. The are version for Linux, Windows and OSX.
ARRL NBEMS page.
Western Pennsylvania NBEMS site.
Youtube video on the basic NBEMS setup on VHF/UHF.
The daddy of APRS, Bob
Bruninga's site
Presentations
and lectures
Power Line Noise issues at my QTH
KC5GOI
1999 DCC
Presentation in MS Power Point
APRS
presentations at the TAPR web site
1997
DCC Presentation
APRS
presentations and lectures
Equipment
Maintainance
TNC
tone quality
by John Ackerman N8UR
I am not a Linux guru by any shape, form or fashion of the word. I have in the past had a previous employer using Postfix with greylisting, AV and spam filtering to
avoid the expense of Exchange. It worked great for us, did not have any speakable down time and allowed a significant amount of flexability. That was not the only
use for Linux at that office but that company was closed in 2011 after surviving being aquired twice.
- Ubuntu
This is my favorite distrobution of Linux. I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 and a virtual maching server that are setup to run Ubuntu.
I am currently using 10.04. You can boot Ubuntu as a live cd so you can play with it without trashing Windows
and even use it for recovery like I did with Knoppix in 2007 on my wifes laptop. I have used it for data recovery on laptops, workstations and servers
that started to have hard drives go bad.
- Knoppix
I have used this version of Linux to obtain the data from systems that the
HD has gone south in. My wife's Dell tanked a portion of its HD in
the middle of the area that system32 was in. You could not boot XP.
Booting from Knoppix let me copy her entire Documents and Settings
directory to a thumb drive so I could copy it over to the new hd after
replacing it and installing XP. I now use Ubuntu just due to frequency of use.
Both are Debian based and I recommend either one.
- Mandrake
Linux
- Red Hat Linux
- SuSE Linux
- Linux
Journal I have a subscription to LJ and love it. Check out the regularly release
tech help videos.
- Linux
Magazine
- Linux
Today
- Linux
Gazette