[01:10] <pvl1> howd it go
[10:12] <rmg51> Morning
[10:26] <JonathanD> Mornign.
[10:36] <kasted> good morning.. is that fog still out there?
[10:37] <JonathanD> Too dark to tell
[11:26] <kasted> is anyone here mining bitcoin or litecoin?
[11:26] <JonathanD> I'm not. Do you plan on doing so?
[11:29] <kasted> i was thinking of it.. just been reading up on somethings. I was looking into bitcoin but though i would try something a bit newer
[11:29] <kasted> thought*
[11:30] <JonathanD> it's impractical to mine with a regular computer, just FYI
[11:30] <JonathanD> maybe less so on litecoin, I'm not sure about that.
[11:31] <kasted> yea.. litecoing is less intensive... but still need dedicated gpus
[11:32] <kasted> well not a necessity but better to have
[11:33] <JonathanD> I think you pretty much do at this point.
[11:33] <JonathanD> at least if you do not wish to lose money.
[11:36] <JonathanD> kasted: it really depends on why you're getting into it.
[11:36] <kasted> that too
[11:37] <kasted> well for right now it is more of a curiosity. i am not willing to go spend extra money for equiptment and such but i if come across some gpus i will put them in a box and fire it up
[11:38] <JonathanD> kasted: You'll want to read up on pools, too.
[11:38] <JonathanD> If you just start mining on your own you'll get essentially nothing.
[11:38] <JonathanD> Mining on your own, on GPUs, is essentially a lottery, and with similar odds.
[11:39] <kasted> yea i read all that this morning
[11:40] <JonathanD> ok
[11:40] <JonathanD> crazy as it sounds, doge is the most profitable way of GPU mining presently :P
[11:42] <kasted> oh is that a pool?
[11:43] <kasted> or another "currensy"
[11:45] <JonathanD> heh
[11:45] <JonathanD> dogecoin
[11:46] <JonathanD> you can mine and convert to btc, it's essentially unusable at the moment, but it's easy to mine on CPU/GPU and hte conversion rate makes mining it and converting "faster" than mining btc direclty.
[11:48] <kasted> reading now... thanks
[11:49] <JonathanD> kasted: plus in the unlikely chance someone significant starts accepting doge, it could skyrocket :P
[13:08] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else
[13:30] <ChinnoDog> hamsters? Where?
[13:32] <teddy-dbear> look in the mirror ;-)
[13:33] <teddy-dbear> your a new ham(ster)
[13:37] <ChinnoDog> :-p
[13:37] <jedijf> he's already gonna fix the whole repeater system
[13:38] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: did you hear me with toronto canada this morning on w3wan?
[13:38] <jedijf> 5:30 with justin
[13:39]  * jedijf can't wait for your nagoya to arrive
[13:40] <ChinnoDog> I don't wake up that early.
[13:41] <ChinnoDog> I am monitoring w3wan and scanning other stations. I discovered yesterday my radio has 127 presets, not 25. 25 is just what Chirp defaults to.
[13:41] <jedijf> regular guys weren't around - may have been repeater issues with fog
[13:41] <ChinnoDog> I loaded all your philly stations into my presets.
[13:41] <ChinnoDog> I can't hear them of course.
[13:42] <jedijf> that was my original - i have changed - it seems it's ever evolving - especially changing alpha-numerics so you know personally the repeater or freq
[13:42] <jedijf> i have to redo all my radios
[13:43] <ChinnoDog> When you are done send me your master list so I can load it into my presets.
[13:43] <jedijf> sure
[13:43] <jedijf> i wish you could hit the havre de grace u of p repeater
[13:43] <ChinnoDog> Which one is that?
[13:43] <jedijf> 441.7 iirc
[13:43] <jedijf> 131.8 tone
[13:44] <ChinnoDog> the list you sent me lists 441.7 as W3WAN with 74.4 tone
[13:44] <jedijf> 444.15 hold on
[13:45] <jedijf> http://www.repeaterbook.com/repeaters/details.php?ID=147&state_id=24#sthash.4OSUuFz9.dpbs
[13:45] <KyleYankan> jedijf: Yeah, Havre de Grace is a stretch from ChinnoDog. 75 miles or so
[13:46] <jedijf> join repeaterbook and qrz.com so you can page up like myspace
[13:46] <jedijf> KyleYankan: you need gif'd up qrz page
[13:47] <KyleYankan> jedijf: Wrong millenia
[13:47] <KyleYankan> :-P
[13:47] <ChinnoDog> I already did join qrz. My call sign is not in their database yet.
[13:47] <KyleYankan> I do need to flesh it out though
[13:48] <ChinnoDog> I just discovered I can not dual monitor and scan at the same time. Sad.
[13:48] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: you dropped! http://qrz.com/db/KK4WIZ
[13:49] <KyleYankan> WIZ KID! :-)
[13:49] <jedijf> KyleYankan: did you hear our u of p qso this morning - paul in chester wants to play with pi and his repeater - you can help with this
[13:50] <jedijf> he has 2 repeaters currently - a 440 and a 220
[13:50] <KyleYankan> jedijf: nah, I was busy trying to fix my phone most of the morning
[13:50] <jedijf> who needs phones
[13:50] <KyleYankan> but I'm in. Anything I can do to help
[13:51] <jedijf> KyleYankan: did you close?
[13:51] <KyleYankan> jedijf: nope.
[13:51] <jedijf> whens next go round
[13:51] <KyleYankan> thursday, if the underwriters can confirm everything today.
[13:51] <KyleYankan> It's taken them over a week to confirm one small deposit.
[13:51] <jedijf> cool; good luck
[13:51] <KyleYankan> we keep playing the "one more thing" game.
[13:52] <KyleYankan> Sorry to vent. Thanks :-)
[13:52] <jedijf> do the write the letter routine?
[13:52] <jedijf> i told you
[13:52] <jedijf> they see/question everything....
[13:52] <KyleYankan> letters, receipts, paystub, etc They even talked to the cashier who cashed the check.
[13:53] <jedijf> like you're selling dope and and depositting cash
[13:53] <KyleYankan> there might even be one in here, reading this. O_O
[13:53] <jedijf> don't deposit the dope $ KyleYankan
[13:54] <KyleYankan> QRZ needs a "friends" feature
[13:55] <jedijf> they have it, it's called 'contacts'
[13:55] <jedijf> geez - this generation
[13:55] <jedijf> i should log a contact with kk4wiz and put IRC
[13:57] <ChinnoDog> I can't hit that repeater so moot until I ressolve.
[13:58] <jedijf> i'll search irlp eventually and pop into a repeater you can hit and we'll qso
[13:58] <jedijf> or allstar even
[13:59] <ChinnoDog> I programmed the national simplex frequencies into my radio. Does anyone ever use those?
[13:59] <jedijf> haha good ham - also progran another, so if you do make a contact you can move to another off of the national
[13:59] <waltman> mmm, ham
[14:00] <ChinnoDog> I don't think I need to do that. On 2m I will just add or subtract 15khz
[14:00] <ChinnoDog> I forget if I can move up or down on 70cm
[14:00] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: apparently old days, begore repeaters and repeater book, when you went to a new area, you would call and if heard they would hook you up with info
[14:00] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: you can
[14:01] <KyleYankan> Calling Freqs are still used in some areas. It's kind of hit or miss though. Good for unknown areas / travelling
[14:01] <KyleYankan> some folks monitor it for emergencies
[14:01] <KyleYankan> Kinda like CB channel 9
[14:01] <jedijf> also, if mobile and another ham sees your antenna they may flash 5 fingers then 2 to tell you to simplex to chat
[14:02] <ChinnoDog> What does 5 + 2 mean?
[14:02] <ChinnoDog> I mean, what does that stand for exactly?
[14:02] <jedijf> what are the national simplex frequencies?
[14:02] <ChinnoDog> oh. 146.52
[14:02] <jedijf> see
[14:03]  * jedijf learned that friday
[14:03] <jedijf> i sent them to freq one though - middle one
[14:04] <ChinnoDog> .51?
[14:04] <jedijf> f u
[14:04] <ChinnoDog> ??
[14:04] <KyleYankan> ,.|..
[14:04] <jedijf> shot them the finger back
[14:04] <ChinnoDog> oh. lol
[14:05] <ChinnoDog> You mean you did that before you knew what 5+2 meant?
[14:06] <jedijf> just kidding...but friday i learned about 52 - i asked the same question you did
[14:06] <jedijf> friday on n3kz they let me play noob hour and ask questions and then they answered
[14:07] <jedijf> amateurs are a real helpful bunch, at least the n3kz guys - loan each other radios, help with antennas - cool folk
[14:08] <jedijf> w3wan folk too - we have a little email thing going on about linux and radio
[14:08] <jedijf> setting them up for fosscon attendance
[14:12] <KyleYankan> i need to move the 911 project off to a BBB or another machine today
[14:17] <ChinnoDog> There are a lot of clubs around here. I need more intel on them before I select one. Is evesdropping on the nets the best way?
[14:21] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: that's a start - but visiting is best - nets are kinda lame -
[14:22] <jedijf> w3wan has a breakfast this saturday somewhere - fire house iirc - next to old time diner - one day i'm gonna fieldtrip - me and sal nc3u want to go down
[14:22] <jedijf> tim (one of the core 13) and jerry kb3oil usually attend
[14:22] <ChinnoDog> I don't want any meetings in assisted living.
[14:23] <jedijf> it is what it is - they are good people - got to take what you can get
[14:24] <jedijf> sanford kb3kva uses a pi and a dvap and his ht id31 to dstar at home
[14:24] <jedijf> they're progressive and old
[14:25] <KyleYankan> thats not a bad idea
[14:25] <KyleYankan> like a personal repeater that adds functionality
[14:25] <ChinnoDog> My radio is crying "low voltage" lol
[14:25] <jedijf> that's annoying
[14:25] <ChinnoDog> Like every 5 seconds. How am I supposed to use it while it is yelling at me like that?
[14:25] <jedijf> she doesn't shut up
[14:25] <KyleYankan> i turned voice off
[14:25] <ChinnoDog> Every 5 minutes would be enough, not every 5 seconds
[14:25] <ChinnoDog> How do you do that??
[14:26] <jedijf> you think it would stop when you transmit - she doesn't
[14:26]  * ChinnoDog looks at manual
[14:26] <KyleYankan> ChinnoDog: menu option 14
[14:26] <jedijf> they tell me that's better than the $300 ht's that just STOP
[14:28] <ChinnoDog> Now it beeps instead of saying "low voltage"
[14:28] <KyleYankan> my old fire department HT's did that. PITA.
[14:28] <ChinnoDog> stopping would be better jedijf
[14:29] <ChinnoDog> Then I could use my entire battery before the radio becomes unusable
[14:30] <jedijf> oh, the batterys are pretty good too - get a decent amount of time
[14:32] <ChinnoDog> It is charging now. I've had the radio on most of the day since Mon morning so that isn't bad.
[14:39] <lazypower> Morning everyone
[14:58] <ChinnoDog> morning
[15:53] <JonathanD> I was thinking I could go for a salad...
[15:53] <JonathanD> checking out saladworks,  which is nearby.
[15:53] <JonathanD> THen I noticed the <marquee> tag on their site :P
[15:53] <JonathanD> Not sure if I can trust them now
[15:57] <KyleYankan> JonathanD: http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
[15:57] <JonathanD> That looks fine to me.
[15:58] <JonathanD> brilliant design.
[19:07] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: we have to get ssweeny licensed
[19:08] <ChinnoDog> How are we going to do that?
[19:08] <ssweeny> what am i licensed to do now?
[19:08] <ChinnoDog> party
[19:08] <jedijf> ham amateur radio
[19:08] <ChinnoDog> same
[19:09] <ssweeny> i don't have time for the hobbies i already have
[19:09] <ChinnoDog> Now you can not have time for this one too.
[19:09] <jedijf> ditto
[19:10] <jedijf> just like me
[19:10] <jedijf> actually for me its a 3fer
[19:10] <jedijf> linux embedded rf
[19:11] <jedijf> so maybe i can actually /do/ something
[19:12] <waltman> ssweeny: kill
[19:14] <ssweeny> waltman, no one was supposed to know about that
[19:20] <waltman> then why did you ask?
[20:40] <jedijf> k3yle KyleYankan great qso - lan is the man - you're getting known - ham cred
[20:59] <ChinnoDog> "...most of the country doesn't really care about New Jersey anyway..." -overheard on a local repeater
[23:25] <jthan> ANy of you avid nginx fans?
[23:25] <jthan> I am struggle bussing hardcore
[23:42] <ChinnoDog> jedijf: new antenna arrived
[23:46] <KyleYankan> thanks jedijf
[23:46] <KyleYankan> Also, closed. I'ma homeowner. Suddenly I have an interest in property value.
[23:46]  * KyleYankan off
[23:48] <JonathanD> 15~a5