I have been provided with a new Lenovo ThinkCentre M series machine at my office. The machine has decent specs like Pentium dual core. 1GB RAM and 160GB hdd. It came preloaded with windows vista. As I use Linux , I partitioned the hard disk and installed ubuntu8.04. Unfortunately sound is not working under Ubuntu.… Continue reading Installing OSS4 on Ubuntu 8.04
FOSS in Engineering Colleges
Shayam has written a nice letter to his HOD on usage of free software in laboratory experiments. As a teacher, I am trying to use free software in my own college. The problems mentioned in his letter is existing in all most all colleges in Kerala. The root cause for this is in the syllabus… Continue reading FOSS in Engineering Colleges
Building Bitx part 2- The crystal filter.
The 10 MHz crystal filter is one of the most important modules of bitx transceiver. Bitx uses an IF of 10 MHz. 10 MHz crystal filters are available at approximately Rs10 ( 1 US$ = Rs40 approximately) in the Indian market. I bought 10 crystals from a local electronics shop. The first thing I did… Continue reading Building Bitx part 2- The crystal filter.
PIC 16F877 prototyping board – part 2
A low cost PIC 16F877 prototyping board is being developed at College of engineering Attingal under my guidance. The credit for develoment goes to Shibu and Manoj. The board is intended for classroom use. The idea is to provide a low cost platform for experimenting with PIC micro controllers. The proposed board will have easily… Continue reading PIC 16F877 prototyping board – part 2
New Antenna mast at VU2SWX
A new antenna mast was installed at VU2SWX ham radio station. The Mast is approximately at a height of 18 meters from ground level. The following photographs show the installation. The base of the mast. It consists of 1.5m 2 inch GI pipe fixed on parapet. It is also bolted to the side wall. The … Continue reading New Antenna mast at VU2SWX