Charles Socci - Information Technology

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Just a quick post. We’ve got some new antennas up. Here’s the new Guanella type balun I wound: After experimenting with an 80m half wave dipole, I found a shorter 31m length was a better performer on most bands for me with 13 meters of 600 ohm open wire feeders. The dipole is about 13m [...]

One leg of the “stealthy doublet” (see previous post) blew down. We decided to take a new approach to launching our antenna wires into the trees. We purchased some regulation baseballs and a roll of nylon cord (similar to mason’s line). We used some previously purchased 4 ounce fishing weights, packing tape, and taped a [...]

I got my first ham radio license years ago at age twelve. I was in the seventh grade and we lived in a semi-rural area and private house. I had 3 element yagis on the roof for 10 and 15 as well as a trap dipole for the other bands. My immersion in ham radio [...]

I’m no fan of Apple lately. Don’t even get me started on the iPad. Here, the Daily Show discusses Apple and the recent Applegate incident with the missing prototype iPhone… The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

We use Google Voice for our voicemail. It is really convenient. The transcription feature is kind of cool because you don’t have to check your voicemail, it will email a transcription to your email inbox or text it to your phone. All for free. We’ve been having a recent problem with rodents in our apartment. [...]

I used to use an application in Windows called Speaking Clock Deluxe. It sat in my system tray and announced the time in my choice of languages and voices. I thought it would be a fun project to make my own speaking clock for Linux. Here is a very simple project that will get you [...]

I needed to do a quick session recording of my desktop to send some colleagues. In Windows I’ve used tools like Camtasia for quick demos, but I needed something that would record a session from a Linux desktop. (Ubuntu Intrepid 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64) GTK-RecordMyDesktop fit the bill perfectly. It is very easy to install using Synaptic/Apt [...]

I serve a large organization with multiple branch offices in remote places. Typically, these offices are staffed with from one to fifty employees. Most of the offices have a local Windows Domain Controller, which doubles as a file/print server, DNS, and DHCP server. The larger of the offices are usually connected to the Internet via [...]