Now that my DX-88 has died again (base element broken) I have been looking for new antenna possibilities. One thought that keeps bugging me is that I have never ever had a QSO on the 160 meter band. Since the days are very short during the Danish winters and sunspot numbers are something you can only dream of these years, I have decided to devote this winter to top-band activities.
Networking Library for Gpredict
I have spent quite some time lately in trying to figure out how I should implement the automatic TLE update in Gpredict. The idea is that Gpredict should be able to fetch fresh TLE data from the internet, via HTTP or FTP, and update the contents of the local file.
Gpredict 0.6.1 in Debian/testing
Phew… it seems that the new gpredict has finally made it into the debian/testing repository. Now I don’t have to worry anymore about a new debian coming out with the old gpredict Thanks to Hamish for packaging.
Gpredict for Windows
I guess it had to come sooner or later: A native build of gpredict for Windows XP is now available for download. And the worst part of it all is that I have built it myself. Why do I bother, I keep asking myself…
Gpredict 0.6 for Mac OS X
Got a cool email few days ago telling me that gpredict 0.6 is available for Mac OS X. Both building instructions as well as ready made packages are available here from the Huntsville Mac User Group. Thanks to Marius Schamschula for doing the good work!
Gpredict 0.6 finally out!
Well, it seems that I have finally managed to release the first official version of Gpredict that uses Gtk+ 2. It was about time since the old Gtk+/Gnome 1 version was getting impossible to maintain, and it was included in both Debian and FreeBSD.
Gpredict Progress Report
It is now more than two months ago that I have released the last development snapshot of gpredict and it would be very appropriate to make status of what has been going on since. So here it comes.
Grig 0.7 Fails to Install
Ten days have passed since the release of grig 0.7 and I have not received any bug reports until today. Berndt, one of the BSD guys, has discovered that grig is not installable because $(DESTDIR)/share/grig is not created prior to attemting to copy files into the directory. Fortunately, this stuff is done as one of the last things during install, so the installation will work and only the README, ChangeLog and similar files will be missing. I fired up my laptop and could confirm the same behaviour on Suse Linux.
Grig Goes 0.7
Two weeks ago I had a correspondence with Richard VK1RJ concerning some problems with the controlling the TenTec Pegasus. After examining the debug output it turned out that the hamlib backend was working all right but it didn’t set any initial values for the AF and RF levels leaving them at the default minimum level.