I am a radioamateur licenced in 1996 and my callsign is YO8SSW. I can usually be found on 20 meter band ( 14 Mhz ) in the CW section. Back in my radioamateurism youth I traded my ZX Spectrum compatible HC91+ computer on a homebrewed sincrodine transceiver having somewhere around...

I guess I could say I'm a CW fan since I don't like chewing rag in SSB. For you non-hams, CW stands for Continuous Wave ( telegraphy ) and SSB stands for Single Side Band ( phone mode ). Since the FT-100 comes with a built-in electronic keyer ( a...

At one of my jobs I was required to write a Word Racer clone module in PHP. I fired up editplus and started to code a simple random grid solver. The dictionary I was provided with contains about 56000 words. First approach was to load the dictionary into an array...

Well, I completed the word racer generator / solver. Boy, the method of keeping the dictionary in a tree is surely fast when searching. For example, a 20x20 grid which contains around 400 unique words gives a total time of loading and generating the list of existing words of .. 0.2...

Let's say you want to display a <div> element over a swf and take over the events like onmousedown and such ( think popups ). How do you proceed ? Well, normally you would remember the z-index css attribute and assign a lower z-index to the swf. <div style="z-index: 1;"> <object style="z-index:...

I have worked 5B4 today at around 11:45 local hour in 14.025 MHz and I got a 599 report. I used as usual the FT 100D and magnetic antenna. This is my first 5B4 qso ever. Weirdly enough, I then worked LY3GB and got a 559 report. This magnetic antenna is...

Last time I discussed about displaying a <div> element over a SWF object and correctly handle the order of the events. Having the div displayed over the SWF my next step was to catch the OnMouseDown event of the div element and handle it by my own ( think of catching...