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
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
Technorati Tags: bitx40 trifilar transformer winding Bitx 20 is a cute QRP transceiver for 20m. The original Bitx 20 was developed by Indian engineer Ashar Frahan. The details of the circuit and other details are available at his website. There is an active yahoo group for bitx builders and there are several mods and… Continue reading Building Bitx part-1
The registration department of Kerala has launched a web site which lists fair value of land in various parts of Kerala. Here is a report about the inauguration of the site . Being a land owner( and,of course a member of the so called land mafia), I was eager to find out the fair… Continue reading The online method of finding fair value of land in Kerala 😀
The folks at University of Twente has installed a software defined radio receiver and connected the same to internet. I have been listening to this radio for quite some time now. You don’t need an amateur license to listen 😀 to it.( so give it a try) The receiver can be accessed from here .… Continue reading Software defined radio with web interface