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Well, thanks to Dennis, N2LBT, I have the equipment for all bands between 903MHz and 5GHz in the car now. This also includes the 4ft satellite dish and paddle feeds for conveying said frequencies. What is this all for you ask? Well, I’m a ham! Further, I am a microwave contester with MGEF (Mt. Greylock Expeditionary Force) also known as W2SZ/1 and I am a rover. This means that I drive very long distances to setup the equipment (almost always in remote locations) and operate on the various allocated microwave bands.

I’ll fill everyone in on what it entails, where I am going, and what goes on the car to do it. In the mean time, you can visit this page on my gallery and see what I went roving in for the June VHF contest. I filled in for KB1EKZ after an injured knee left him unable to operate from the back of the truck. Steve, KB1ITX and I started in Maine and worked our way into Massachusetts, ending up on Mt. Wachusett for the end of the contest.

Stay tuned for further progress reports on the car, only here at carlfacer.com!

So I’ve gotten the chance to play around with a piece of software called Gawker which allows me to make time lapse movies using the MacBook. Today’s project was to paint a total of 5 tables in the basement, so it provided a great opportunity for me to try it out. Here’s the video of me painting the first three.

So today brings on some sort of sinus cold / sickly thing that is just about doing me in. Just had to share that with you.  In other news, the full server migration has been completed and this page (as well as the gallery) are snug in their new home somewhere in a California data center. The legacy server will be running PRN at the house to serve any domestic needs as I see fit. It might end up hosting the POCSAG to SMS gateway that I have been talking about for a few years, but it’s still a way off due to a shortage of time. More information will be dispersed as it becomes available. 

The move is now officially complete! The nearly 3 gigs of pictures have been uploaded to the site and should be fully functional as of this moment. Please take a moment to check it out! I will also be working on embedding the gallery into this wordpress page, but that will have to wait for a bit. Now I have to go look at engagement rings and go to an appointment to have my eyes checked. 

Download link  Jem - 24   -   A great song that I just had to use as a test platform for a media player on the site. Enjoy! 

So, in the midst of transferring all of my crap to the new host server, I came across a few interesting videos. The first one on display is from my first time playing paintball. Credits to Jim Entwistle for the editing.

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More intersting videos to come as I find them!

::streches arms:: …. “Well this place seems cozy!” You guessed it folks, just like an unwanted college kid at the ‘rents house, we’ve moved out of the upstairs bedroom to a new, better place! As of Friday, July 13th, 2007 we’ve moved to a hosted server in the depths of cyberpace (kinda cool … you know .. on Friday the 13th). The gallery pictures are being tarballed, databases packed, and we’re on the way across the country! It’s a new era for this page and it definately has come a long way! Only three years ago was the domin acquired and only being used for VNC access into a Windoze2K box @ RIT. Like I said, a long way!

As of 8:14pm EST, the mysql database from the ROC server are being uploaded to the new host and the g2data file just finished tarballing, so everything is oging quite nice. We’re expecting a few minor bumps in the road, but hopefully everything should be roughly presentable by the end of the weekend!

Stay tuned for further details as we embark on this new journey!

-Carl =)~