Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 06:29:08 +1100
From: "Ian C. Purdie VK2TIP" <ianpurdie@integritynet.com.au>
Organization: Utter chaos - as usual
References: 1
Hi Gang,
Hullo, anybody out there in cyber-land? Ah! the festive (silly season) is upon us.
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1. Questions, diatribes, and cries for help should be directed toward:
Christmas cards <g> can be sent to:
138 "Bevington Village", 186 Sunrise Avenue, Budgewoi N.S.W. 2262 Australia
I appreciate your participation in receiving my Newsletter. If you have
another moment or two, please
read my shameless promotional hype way down below, because I think
there's some real cool stuff that
might be of great interest to everyone.
I need to ask you a sensible question (PLEASE PARTICIPATE):
(A) Let me know would you prefer to continuing this newsletter by email (as it is)?
OR:
(B) Would you prefer to have it as a web page and I simply email you
a one line link to it each month? I
think some people have limited email facilities and find big emails
a problem.
Make your personal choice, but please do reply to either question above. Thanks.
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2. I'm ready for anything with Y2K.
Many readers have been asking: "what is Ian Purdie is doing to prepare for Y2K?".
Here's what I've got:
one large bottle of Tyrrell's Old Winery Pinot Noir in each of my desk
drawers, plus another one hidden
in a secret place. <g>
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It might pay you to print this Newsletter out now - it's as usual,
about "I dunno" how many pages long
It does contain VALUABLE INFORMATION - PLEASE READ THROUGH
Now what's all the news up to the moment? Following our usual format:.
3. Has this newsletter proved useful?
4. What I'm personally up to.
5. Licensing Tutorial Course
6. Updates and further pages in coming
month
7. QRP Quarterly magazine - absolutely
brilliant
8. My customary damn lies and "statistics"
9. Feedback
10. A few valuable but FREE! downloads - I use and
recommend them of course.
11. Bookstore coming
12. All right I've included one joke by popular demand.
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3. Is this Newsletter particularly useful?
YES - it's gotta be. Assuming it doesn't get deleted by nearly everyone without ever being opened.
The ratio of monthly new subscribes to unsubscribes (mostly losing email
facilities) is ten to one each
month. Ahem, I humbly thank you. Now if you could all put $1 in the
mail there would be no further need
for me to curtail my drinking :)-
On that note BTW, if you want to continue receiving this newsletter
and propose changing email
addresses, please let me know as I get a couple of dead email addresses
a month.
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4. What I'm personally up to
I've revamped the home page a bit. Check it out and let me know what you think
http://my.integritynet.com.au
Writing more and more tutorials - see later.
I'm moving toward my own domain registration and a total rewrite of
the whole site in the new year. I
estimate the whole site, if printed out, covers over 600+ printed pages.
All up it's becoming an expensive
exercise so I've had to introduce some crass commercialism to defray
these costs and I hope you both
understand and support me.
For some of the FREE downloads I receive a few (very few) pennies if
you do download. I never
recommend anything unless I am a satisfied user myself. I am trying
to organize a satisfactory on line
bookstore for the quality reference books I'd recommend. More on that
later. I'd like to introduce banner
ads but I can't find any which are related to the site content. I'm
not sure "Mary's PetStore and Goldfish
Emporium" is appropriate.
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5. Licensing Tutorial Course
The first lessons are now in print on my web site for all to see.
http://my.integritynet.com.auaocp_part1a.htm
http://my.integritynet.com.auaocp_part2.htm
Part 1 is still incomplete (only just found out) but due for finish shortly.
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6. Updates, new pages and further pages in
coming month
There is a new page on active antenna theory
http://my.integritynet.com.auactiveantenna1.htm
There is a new page on oscillators
http://my.integritynet.com.auoscillators.htm
Finally, I did it. There is the new page on high pass filters
http://my.integritynet.com.auhigh-pass-filters.htm
PS: Thanks for the huge amount of feedback here.
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7. A plug for one of the most excellent electronics
magazines available.
This is NOT commercial hype. Pure voluntary because I really believe in this magazine.
QRP Quarterly (the Journal of the QRP Amateur Radio Club, International)
is published not surprising,
four times a year, by a group of dedicated volunteers, all on a non-profit
basis. It has a long and
prestigious history. Last issue was October, 1999 and comprised 62
pages.
Every issue is jam packed with interesting articles by some of the biggest
names in the amateur radio /
professional electronics industry. Circuits and schematics galore.
It is truly a professional and polished
publication.
If you are simply interested in becoming an amateur radio operator this will be a big help.
The cost (low because of the slave labour factor) is:
U.S.A. - $15.00 CANADA - $US 18.00 ELSEWHERE - $US 20.00
I thoroughly recommend it and as always with my recommendations, I've subscribed to it myself.
A form is available at: http://www.qrparci.org/arcijoin.html
If you could print it out and use, it would be
much appreciated by all concerned.
Don't forget to tell 'em Ian VK2TIP sent you.
Visit QRP Amateur Radio Club, International - URL: http://www.qrparci.org
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8. Damn lies and "statistics"
Well they really were lies. My main counter has now gone past 19,500
unique visitors.
But I've since established (through another mechanism) these numbers
were LOW due to a few
technical reasons. The main counter reports 3,399 visitors for the
month of November.
The alternate mechanism puts TOTAL unique visitors to my site, not just
main page, at 4,929 and total
tracked page views at 12,160 for November. Not bad for a little kid
from the Australian bush.
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9. Feedback
Well tell me what you think. Very few people write to me about these
Newsletters. Am I wasting my
money? Yes it costs me for using this bandwidth. A courtesy reply from
friends would be greatly
appreciated.
Speaking of friends how about telling your friends about my site and my monthly newsletter?
Without feedback I don't know where to go.
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10. DELETED (No longer supported)
(c) Sun Clock screen saver
No I don't get anything for this. I just included it because I really
like it. It's a map of the world with the
time zones of all the main centres shown together with a constantly
changing shadow depicting those
areas of the world currently in darkness. Cool!
Two problems with it for me (might be just my computer)
(a) doesn't account for Sydney being in day light saving so other world
times are out by one hour at
present.
(b) for some obscure reason, if left unattended for a long time, it
seems to cause the usual Microsoft's
"this program has performed an illegal..... and will be shut down"
BUT for FREE, I can't complain and I love it. Shame I can't get a few pennies though <g>
http://www.mapmaker.com/SUNCLOCK.HTM
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11. My online bookstore
I mentioned earlier about this and I have set up arrangements with both
Affinia and Amazon but, I want
to be certain I can offer only quality up to date reference books.
One other organization offered me ARRL publications, only for me to
discover their idea of the ARRL
Handbook was the 1973 edition. Good grief!
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12. Humour
Too long to include here so you will have to go to:
http://my.integritynet.com.aufunnyjoke1.htm
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FINALLY -
If you're into the history of logarithms check this out
On the subject of computing logs, there is an interesting brief history
at
"Ask Dr. Math":
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/temple.7.12.96.html
AND
If I bore you then to unsubscribe CLICK on the URL below this line:
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MY DEEP, SINCERE SEASON AND MILLENNIUM WISHES TO YOU ALL
Thank you all very much and 73's to you all. May your God go hand in
hand with you, protect you and
your family and (my prayer) may this new millennium bring enduring
peace, understanding, tolerance,
prosperity and goodwill to everyone on earth.
Ian Purdie
VK2TIP "I'll give you the TIP mate"
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia
Tel: 61 + 2 + 4399 3228 (2200 - 0800 U.T.C. please.)
QRP-L member #1978.
URL - http://my.integritynet.com.au
