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Okay, the world is indeed crazy. We can’t hide from it or hope that it just blows over sooner or later. We’re dealing with it now and that means it’s impacting our work, our family lives, and even our sanity from time to time. One of the stalwart things that has been impacted by this is the summer conference schedule. We’ve had Aruba Atmosphere, Cisco Live, VMworld, and even Microsoft Ignite transition from being held in-person to a virtual format complete with shortened schedules and pre-recorded sessions. I’ve attended a couple of these so far for work and as an analyst, and I think I’ve figured it out.

If you come to a conference for content and sessions, you’ll love virtual events. If you come for any other reason, virtual isn’t going to work for you.

Let’s break this down because there’s a lot to unpack.

Information Ingestion

Conferences are first and foremost about disseminating information. Want to learn what new solutions and technologies have been launched? It’s probably going to be announced either right before or during the conference. Want to learn the ins-and-outs of this specific protocol? There’s probably a session on it or a chance to ask Continue reading

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FT8 and IC9700

Setup

The basis for these instructions is this guide, but updated to reflect that the IC9700 is now directly supported by wsjtx and js8call.

Step one: connect a normal USB-A-B cable between the computer and the radio.

IC-9700 settings

• Menu
  • Set
    • Connectors
      • MOD Input
        • USB Mod Level: 30% (default 50%)
        • DATA MOD: USB (default: ACC)
        • DATA OFF MOD: Leave as default (MIC, ACC)
      • CI-V
        • CI-V Baud Rate = 19200 (default: Auto)
        • CI-V address = keep default A2h
        • CI-V USB Port = Link to [REMOTE] (default: Unlink from [REMOTE])
        • CI-V DATA Baud Rate = 19200 (default: OFF)
• When running, choose FIL1 (next to the mode in the top left)

wsjtx/js8call settings

• Radio
  • Rig: Icom IC-9700
  • Baud rate: 9700
  • Data bits: 8
  • Stop bits: 1
  • Handshake: XON/XOFF
  • PTT method: CAT
  • Mode: Data/Pkt (USB also works, but will use DATA OFF MOD as audio, so that needs to be USB)
  • Serial port: /dev/ttyUSB0 (on my Linux machine at least)
• Audio
  • Input: also_input.usb-Burr-Brown_from_TI_USB_Audio_CODEC-0.analog-stereo
  • Output: also_output.usb-Burr-Brown_from_TI_USB_Audio_CODEC-0.analog-stereo
• Frequencies
  • Right click on the “Working frequencies” table and insert 144.174 and 432.065 for FT8. I’m not sure about the 70cm frequency, as Continue reading

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Open source — the great equalizer.

Technology is a great equalizer and the open source movement has played a huge role in making this true and accelerating the process. Open source levels the playing field for many. Gone are the days where you had to get a job or invest to learn a technology. Open source and Linux opened up access and opportunities to learn and innovate.

We live in an era where hardware and software architectures are powered by open source technologies. Modern system architectures (distributed, cloud native and others) are built with open source technologies and many others continue to move to open technologies (open networking, open Firmware, Linux BIOS just to name a few). Open source has been the driving force in commoditizing hardware in many markets. Open communities like OCP are taking this to the next level.

Open source platforms like github and gitlab have promoted open source development and made it easier to build open source communities and ecosystems. Existing open source communities fuel new open communities. Success stories from disaggregated and open server operating systems fueled the open networking revolution leading to the birth of open network operating systems. Investing in open source and having open source development centers are Continue reading

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What Does a Post-COVID World Look Like in Small Island Developing States?

This blog post was first published by DiploFoundation.

“We need to ensure we digitalize all of our business processes as to enable the effective digital transformation of our governments, businesses, and educational institutions so that the disruptive solutions brought by the global pandemic, including remote work, digital health, e-learning, and fintech, are collectively recognized as a pivot point in our history.”

There… I’ve done it… I’ve met the challenge of how many currently fashionable buzzwords and jargon I can stuff into a single sentence.

Everything we’ve been reading about dealing with the issues the global economy will face in the post-COVID-19 world tends to sound something like what I’ve written above. I can’t promise you that I will not touch upon these topics and mention these buzzwords again, but I do hope I can bring a certain degree of pragmatism to the conversation, especially given that I hail from Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island country in the Caribbean, categorized as a small island developing state (SIDS) along with approximately 50 odd others scattered across our various oceans.

SIDS economies are generally characterized by their dependence on earning revenue from the exportation of either raw materials or partially-finished goods extracted Continue reading

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Ambient ‘T-rays’ could help power IoT devices

Most things with a measurable temperature – human beings going about their daily routines, inert objects – generate terahertz waves, radiation that is sandwiched between infrared and microwave on the electromagnetic spectrum.So far, these waves haven’t proved very useful, but now scientists at MIT are trying to harness them with devices that use them to generate electricity that could charge the batteries of cellphones, laptops, even medical implants.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] If successful, the charging devices would passively gather the waves and generate DC current at room temperature, something that hasn’t been accomplished before. Previous devices that can turn terahertz waves – T-rays – to electricity only work in ultracold environments, according to an MIT News article about the project.To read this article in full, please click here

Video: Ethernet Briefings in April 1978 by Bob Metcalfe

If you want some Ethernet history, 2 hours of instruction from 1978.

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