Found a few minutes to make some jumpers to carry when traveling on the bikes. Had the spare wire and some extra copper clips and decided they could be useful together.
What else have I been up to lately? Working of course, and adding to the list of projects I'd like to tackle. Things like building a network enabled data logger that measures temperature and humidity in all of the rooms of the house, if for no other reason than I'm just curious. I also picked up a LED matrix display that I'd like to be able to send data for display; temperature, humidity, dew point, baro pressure and accurate time.
I plugged in my Chumby for the first time in a few years and find out that the company that ran the servers for the little apps went belly up. At least there is a guy that has been working diligently trying to rebuild and test the servers and get them up and running.
I took and old set of solar powered lanterns and installed random flickering LED's in them to make them look like there are candles in them. They are all wired together and are powered by one central solar cell/battery and custom circuit that charges them during the day and turns them on and off accordingly.
I also removed the G5RV and 2M/440 antennas from the attic. They were both causing lots of problems in the house as well as the house causing major interference with them, ugh! So now I have run some really nice cable from my "shack" to a junction box outside that I can connect whatever antenna I want to use. Still a temporary kind of solution, but that's about all I can do where I live.
I managed to score a nice set of fiberglass poles (surplus) to use as a way to get some antennas in the air, might try and use them for field day.
Well those are the highlights for now. Haven't had a whole lot of time for anything else. Work just seems to get in the way of things I really want to do.......
