The guys from BSNL seem to be reading this blog after I posted my letter here. I examined my traffic logs today and found two referrals from kttp://kerala.bsnl.co.in . Anyway, several officials are visiting our street regularly after my blog post. Yesterday, they replaced the junction box. See the pictures below. It seems they had … Continue reading Updates on BSNL
I have a land line connection at home. It is from BSNL, the state owned Telecom giant in India. I am too disgusted with their service and shot of the following email today to all publicly visible BSNL officers. Let us see whether email work in India. The exact nature of the problem cannot… Continue reading My letter to BSNL
I was playing with my bitx build yesterday. Specifically, I tried to add CW to the rig. Original bitx20 is a SSB rig. I my mod was inspired from PY2OHH bitx40. I wired up a 10mhz crystal oscillator as shown below. The idea is to inject 10mhz ( approximately) at the beginning of transmitter IF… Continue reading Adding CW to bitx
I am using pidgin as chat client for both yahoo and gtalk. Recently, yahoo has stopped support for older versions of their own yahoo messenger clients. ( anything less than version 7.5 fails ) . It also means that most of the third party clients such as pidgin has problems in login. On my ubuntu… Continue reading Pidgin unable to connect to yahoo
Scribefire is a cool firefox add on which a blogger cannot miss Using this firefox add-on, you can blog with out leaving your browser. Installation is simple. Browse to this page Just click on the addto firefox button and restart firefox. You can start scribefire by clicking on the scribefire icon. It will… Continue reading Blogging with scribefire