The 5 to 30 Dollar Security DVR

  5 to 30 Dollar Security DVR If you use a raspberry pi Zero they are running 5 bucks + old web cam. Not a bad deal for a DVR. At this time all the software is free. Links below: ccrisan/motioneyeos http://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos Wiki http://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki Down load http://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki/Supported-Devices Installation http://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki/Installation Amazon for the hardware : http://amzn.to/1W0uBt7 Just get any Raspberry pi .. Pi zero is 5 bucks when in stock.  …

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Baofeng Radio TNC Packet Radio cable

  I hade to make the Baofeng radio to TNC /Sound Card cable because the Baofeng is designed to key up the radio when the Grounds of the Speaker and microphone are shorted. This presented a problem when using a USB sound card for a interface. the universal ground what shorting the two leads. so we need to make a ground loop isolator and set the radio to VOX. not…

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How to Solder copper wire to aluminum foil.

How to Solder copper wire to aluminum foil. I will be making some disposable variable capacitors later today for some magnetic loop antennas. This is also a useful technique to solder copper braid to an antenna. I think you can use any oil. the important thing to remember is keeping Oxygen form the foil. You don’t want it to oxidize before you get the solder down.

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Bitcoin is Money That can now Be transmitted through HAM Radio using Kryptoradio

http://kryptoradio.koodilehto.fi/ I really don’t know anything about BitCoin. This seems kind of neat. Part of amateur radio is that no transmission may be encrypted except radio control craft. Are they circumventing this rule? I though long and hard about this. Encryption is only allowed in radio control of models or from the control station of a satellite. This is not really encrypting communications so I doubt it would be against…

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