February 2012 - Above Average Terrain

Use WPtouch to Create Mobile WordPress Site

28 February 2012 by Bob K0NR

I’ve been using WordPress for my weblog for years now and just turned on a mobile version of the blog. The WordPress plugin WPtouch makes this very easy to do. It took about 5 minutes to get it up and running. The WPtouch plugin automatically detects when the user is browsing with a smartphone and … Read more

Say Goodbye to the BNC

24 February 201223 February 2012 by Bob K0NR

There was a discussion on Google+ the other day about how a particular handheld transceiver has an SMA connector, instead of the venerable BNC connector. I noted that many of the newer HTs are going with SMA, presumably because of the smaller size. In fact, I started thinking about it…I didn’t think you can buy … Read more

This Spewed Out of the Internet #21

8 February 2012 by Bob K0NR

There’s lots of information spewing forth from the interwebznet. Here are a few items of interest. Dan KB6NU has started doing an Extra Class Question of the Day on his blog. I think this is a great idea. I may need to borrow steal reuse this idea on my blog. The Fi-Ni Report did their usual … Read more

2012 ARRL Field Day Information Packet Available

4 February 2012 by Bob K0NR

ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. Each year over 35,000 amateurs gather with their clubs, friends or simply by themselves to operate. The information packet for Field Day is now available on the ARRL web site. – Bob K0NR