Takes a LONG time to get to Micronesia...
 

On Feb 26, 3:38*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
Well, just e-corresponded with Sylvia, the very kind and helpful lady
at the other end at PMA The Cross Radio on FSM. *She has not yet
received an envelope with recording and report I sent on 14 February :-
( *Thought airmail would be a little quicker than that. *It was a good
one too - Station ID and details nice and clear. *Oh, well - maybe
I'll just have to try again.

Bruce Jensen

Good news! Sylvia at "PMA The Cross" let me know she got the report,
and a QSL is on its way :-)

Bruce, cheerfully dancing like Snoopy around the radio...

Takes a LONG time to get to Micronesia...
 

On Mar 1, 4:46*pm, wrote:
American Goodies and American junk is farrrrr and away Much Betterr than
anything Canada has.You can bet your boots on that! O' Canada.

Yesterday, at that Office Depot store, that pot bellied dude who works
there, he Flat Out Lied to me! He told me if something goes wrong with
HP computer, (it was a HP 600-1350 Touchsmart desktop computer I was
looking at, marked down to $949.99) HP will send you a new computer.

A little while ago when I was in the Sears store electronics department
and I was looking at a couple of little cheap laptop computers (one of
them is a EEPC, the other one is a Toshiba, about 250 something dollars)
the sales clerk guy (he has been with Sears over twenty years, I know
him pretty well) told me the Truth.He said, Use them and then throw them
away.
cuhulin

Try Microcenter.com . Not sure if they have an outlet near Jackson,
but they know what they are doing . And that's a vey rare thing
nowdays . Most laptops (under $300) seem to be disposable , so I
wouldn't take them if they cost more than $49 . Just my opinion .

Xoom ! In On It Cuhulin . . .
 

On Mar 1, 9:56*pm, wrote:
On Mar 1, 4:46*pm, wrote:

American Goodies and American junk is farrrrr and away Much Betterr than
anything Canada has.You can bet your boots on that! O' Canada.

Yesterday, at that Office Depot store, that pot bellied dude who works
there, he Flat Out Lied to me! He told me if something goes wrong with
HP computer, (it was a HP 600-1350 Touchsmart desktop computer I was
looking at, marked down to $949.99) HP will send you a new computer.

A little while ago when I was in the Sears store electronics department
and I was looking at a couple of little cheap laptop computers (one of
them is a EEPC, the other one is a Toshiba, about 250 something dollars)
the sales clerk guy (he has been with Sears over twenty years, I know
him pretty well) told me the Truth.He said, Use them and then throw them
away.
cuhulin

Try Microcenter.com . * Not sure if they have an outlet near Jackson,
but they know what they are doing . And that's a *vey rare thing
nowdays .
- Most laptops (under $300) seem to be disposable ,
- so I wouldn't take them if they cost more than $49 .
- Just my opinion .

There is a big 'g a p' between $49 _ _ _ $300

For what Cuhulin seems to want to do with his new
Motorola "Atrix" -imho- The Motorola "Xoom" may
have been the better 'device' for his needs. ~ RHF
http://www.motorolazoom.info/

Xoom ! In On It Cuhulin . . . moto on over too a . . . z o o m /
http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/...OOM/index.html

moto on over too a . . . z o o m /
http://www.pcworld.com/article/22034...ot_to_buy.html

Motorola Xoom Is the Perfect iPad Competitor :
Here Are 10 Reasons Why
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-...ns-Why-668772/

The Motorola "Xoom" Compared
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-...contentBody;2n

Sending Audio QSL Reports : Most Universal Audio Format ".wav"? -or- MP3 ?
 

On 03/01/2011 05:17 PM, wrote:

From Wikipedia:
* The ABC "D-Cart" system, which was developed by the Australian
broadcaster, uses 48 kHz 16 bit two channel .wav files, which is
identical to that of Digital Audio Tape.
* The Digital Radio Mondiale consortium uses WAV files as an
informal standard for transmitter simulation and receiver testing.

Jim

..wav is uncompressed PCM. Like .aiff

Xoom ! In On It Cuhulin . . .
 

On 03/02/2011 02:20 AM, RHF wrote:
On Mar 1, 9:56 pm, wrote:
On Mar 1, 4:46 pm, wrote:

American Goodies and American junk is farrrrr and away Much Betterr than
anything Canada has.You can bet your boots on that! O' Canada.

Yesterday, at that Office Depot store, that pot bellied dude who works
there, he Flat Out Lied to me! He told me if something goes wrong with
HP computer, (it was a HP 600-1350 Touchsmart desktop computer I was
looking at, marked down to $949.99) HP will send you a new computer.

I'd check to see if Sprint 4G is available at your location. They'll
give you a free laptop if you sign up for 2 years. 3G is OK for audio,
but will eat up your 5GB cap if you watch TV on it.

"Sprint Nextel Tuesday unveiled dual-mode 3G/4G-embedded netbook and
notebook computers, both made by Dell, at the 4G World conference here.

The devices are considered the first such dual mode devices to be
announced by a national wireless carrier.

The new offerings include the Windows 7 Starter-based Dell Inspiron Mini
10 netbook that is free of charge -- after a $100 rebate and the signing
of a new two year service agreement with Sprint. Sprint also unveiled a
Dell Inspiron 11z notebook computer that runs Windows 7 Home Premium and
sells for $149.99 after a $100 rebate and the signing of a two-year
agreement for Sprint service.

Both devices will go on sale on Nov. 14 at Sprint stores and on
Sprint.com, the company said.

Sprint's 3g/4G service plan is priced at $59.99 a month for unlimited 4G
data and 5 GB of 3G data."

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...tbook_notebook

Takes a LONG time to get to Micronesia...
 

"dave" wrote in message
. ..
I tried that Puppy Linux today. Some notable drawbacks seem to be that
it doesn't support my sound card (on an HP dv7 laptop) and network
connections are a PITA. Other than that... it does seem to be pretty
fast. But if I can't do anything with it, it doesn't matter how fast it
is.


Have you tried "alsamixer"? [open Terminal, type alsamixer [Enter}

The Linux kernel has drivers for any kind of hardware made, built in.

Here's a more disciplined area where such matters are talked over:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=19

You need to know the name of the wifi chipset if it doesn't find it
automatically. Connect (phone on top of modem icon) wlan0 it should
give you a list of wifi nodes in your area. Otherwise you need to name
the chipset on a list. But Puppy should have found it. It's as plug and
play as windows these days. This version is married to Ubuntu.