Wow! Got some rare stuff in 80m!

This evening I caught some realy rare stuff on 80m: HF Fax by Ham Radio Amateurs. This is what I could receive:

It seems that ON7LR did send this facsimiles. Why? I don't know, yet. But it's realy rare stuf!!! :) :) :) So thank you dr club station ON7LR!

BTW: I hadn't got the time to slant correct it. My primary goal was to receive the pictures ;)

"Poor Mans Time Lapse Mashine" Project

Arduino again. Now I'm presenting the so called "Poor Mans Time Lapse Mashine". It's a time lapse movie maker with an 7€ cam (Turnigy Keychain Cam) from Hong Kong and two 4N33 optic coupler.

This is what it looks like:



or



Mashine w/ camera takes a frame/photo about every 15 second. Then I finalised the movies with ffmpeg. ffmpef puts single jpg together as a movie.

Arduino has the job to take the photos every 15 sec.

:)

New distance record: 100 km with xtrem cheap abtenna

Hello,

this afternoon I got a new distance record with a 2,- EURO cheap antenna: 100 km from my home to DB0SUN near Hannover (Deister). Received with a quick-n-dirty wire groundplane calculated on this page:

http://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/lambda_4_gp.php



All wires are about(!) 162,5 mm long.



Not too bad for a simple wire GP, I think. :)

Last flight of Atlantis STS 135 - A very, very...

...short broadcast from spaceshuttle Atlantis on 259.700 MHz Wide AM:



Caught above Bremen with YAESU FRG-9600 and my DIY QFH antenna... Proud of it... :)

PHP, mySQL and Google API == visualised WSPR spots...

As SWL I'm interested in viewing all my WSPR loggings until today. At WSPR.net you can view the last 24 hours on the Google map "only".

So I decided to use the Google Maps Api to visualise my own WSPR logging. You can see the result of some PHP, mySQL and API hacking stuff here:

http://www.qth.at/de8msh/wsprcalls

This is only a demo howto use PHP, mySQL an the Google Maps Api.

L8er...