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SAFE Ark Two Newsletter
September 16th, 2012
Current News
I am not ignoring the current news. There just isn't anything any of us
can do about it as the world continues to disintegrate at an ever
increasing speed. There are people in other cultures who have a very
strong attachment to their religion and who are affronted by obscene,
blasphemous, and profane attacks upon their religion. On the other hand
many Americans, particularly among the youth, regarding their inherited
Christian religion, applaud/support this and permit this and would even tell you that they thought the desecration in the latter case took place on April 17th of this year.
Most American youth, and for that matter many adults, couldn't tell you
the difference between obscenity, blasphemy, and profanity, or the
meaning of impiety if you asked them. The recently departed foremost
admired/appreciated/applauded stand-up comic that was idolized by
American youth uttered nothing but the above whenever he stood up to
talk. In a disintegrating culture this has as much moral justification
as yelling fire in a crowded theatre or spraying gasoline on the crowd.
I hear from numerous older people who would think nothing of desecrating
the Koran but who are greatly offended by the burning of the American
flag in another country. This state of ills is simply going to continue
to become accentuated and accelerated.
The underlying factor behind the US involvement in Iraq, Iran, Syria,
Libya, and elsewhere in the Near East has not been to assure those
peoples western democracy and freedoms. The motive has been solely
materialistic self interest in Oil and the precipitating factor has been
the indication by those countries that they would sell oil for some
currency other than the US Dollar. Otherwise, for all the US cared - let
the dictators reign. Other countries in Africa, South America, and in
the Far East have also indicated bolting from the dollar. To this rising
cacophony there was this week added China. If you don't think THAT is a
"dot"!
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Other news regarding the destabilizing of Pakistan, the Iran nuke
confrontation, the instability of the Euro, and a panoply of other
events are surely enough to keep busy anyone who is inclined to be an
analyst of the news. Not me.
Last week I posted in the newsletter the following:
A new IMMEDIATE NEED just as I am getting ready to send this out. An
email came in which we have lost one of the co-authors on our TEN SHORT
NOVELS project. If anyone out there has aspired to be a writer - please
let me know so that I can discuss the possibility with you.
C'mon - a thousand out there -
and no one else wants to be a novelist?
I can raise aspiring writers by the bunches -
from elsewhere - but none of them are sympathetic
to the subject.
Okay, so some of you can't write -
but I also know that there are some of you
who can or could.
There are many reasons for writing a novel. Fame and fortune to name two
- but neither of those are ours. Our goal is neither entertainment nor
diversion. It is to educate people to our cause and may be the vehicle
for benefiting a great number of people. If you are a person who would
reach out your hand to help someone in desperate need then put your hand
to delivering masses.
November is Nanowrimo (pronounced Nano - wri - mo). We have a very exciting project.
What we are doing is a series of 10 formula novels. At the moment we are
doing character and plot development. Suggestions from anyone on unique
dramatic events will be welcome. If you feel you have only one idea -
and are willing to share it - please pass it on.
The first five all begin on the same date (February 14th) and at the
same time (but in different locales of city, suburb, town, village,
farm) when nuclear WW3 begins. We hope to weave them together in an
overall plot. The first five novels end 90 days later on May 15th and
the stories pick up again on May 15th, after the lapse of a year.
As a formula book each of our
10 books will have
15 chapters with
15 pages per chapter
225 pages per book
250 words per page (average)
56,000 words per book
(a novel by Nanowrimo standards)
The formula extends on to many other facets -
which I will be happy to share with anyone interested in participating.
Being novels, there are of course many things novel to each book. I
won't disclose them here, at least for the moment, but I am sure there
is room for anyone who wishes to contribute ideas.
The Nanowrimo system permits us to establish writing buddies. It costs
nothing to join Nanowrimo but you have to be invited to become a writing
buddy with our group. Email me and let me tell you how to join the fun.
Further updates on the radio:
The repair shop informs me that my large transceiver is ready for
pick-up, whenever I come up with the funds. Now when I transmit I will
be more confident that it is a problem of the software and not my
hardware if I can't send a signal. (I think mainly I just can't find
recipients in the area and the antenna is not designed for talking to
other continents.)
A reader has alerted me to a PSK31 device
called the NUE-PSK Digital Modem
http://www.nue-psk.com/
Interesting to look at
and you can get the prices by clicking on "Order Now".
Yep, I have known about this device
for a couple of years -
but these are the BEST pictures
and details that I have seen or received.
So far as I know
it would work with our system
but would add substantially to the cost.
$ 220 Assembled and tested Modem
$ 6 Modem cable
$ 19 Manual
$ 20 Keyboard (est.)
$ 35 Shipping (est.)
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$ 300 would be added to our cost
and little gained because one still needs:
a transceiver
an antenna
a power supply
a computer for uploading software
the marginal benefits might be in portability and power consumption
but one sacrifices the larger display and direct computer text storage.
The above as an alternative to what we are doing,
(since our proposed system is for people who are not currently Hams),
means the non-Hams needing to get a transceiver
probably in the minimal neighborhood of $1200
so the total for them is then -
$1500 for what we are trying to achieve for $200
and that then also greatly adds to the complication of use.
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Another typical kind of response - (typical in that it is critical -
but such queries are all on sorts of different subjects) -
"Hate to break the news to you my friend especially on the front
doorstep of war but your described radio, no matter which 'transistors'
or 'matching transformers' you use or power output, will be (sic) (NOT)
useful. It will wander all over the band and be as unstable as
(deleted) because it is frequency / phase locked to nothing. And, a
variactor diode (the element you seem to be using as a vfo tuning
device) are by nature very variable with temperature and humidity. Even
if your "tuning voltage" (based on a POT setting) were rock stable, you
frequency would not be. Unless you phase lock it or reference it to a
crystal, there is no hope.
I appreciate these different comments -
and while I do due diligence
and run them by the engineers -
in case they have merit -
so far as I can tell -
although I spend many, many hours
chasing some of the criticisms down -
our design remains the best that we can make it -
given our goals and parameters.
There is a tendency in our world today -
among many -
regarding radio technology, and every other technology,
besides medicine, government, economics and you name it,
to offer strong opinions -
although they may not have spent the hours and effort
studying the particular subject.
But worse - while they offer vocal criticism they are not willing to pitch in and work hands-on toward a solution.
Still,
I appreciate people's questions/comments
in case there can be discovered
something that we have overlooked
or can improve.
The engineers answer to the above was:
"the transceiver uses 3.579MHz crystals for clock generation and
filtering, which should be stable enough. I can provide him the
schematic design for a peer review if he has time/interest in our
project."
So - onward.
Lots of good personal stuff this week.
Jean's operation appears to have been a success.
She is on eye-drops until Tuesday.
My doctor appointments went well also.
On the 24th I have four hours of stress tests with the cardiologist
starting at 9a.m. and then a meeting with the surgeon at 1:30. Nothing
serious. Just comes with the territory of reaching the age that I have.
The ENT said yesterday that he could book still further tests but
figures that I will be recovered by the time they could be scheduled.
All good stuff.
Niece let Jean pick her garden, so Jean has been busy canning for the
last couple of days. We were having trouble with our big storage
batteries but the expert came and put them on a recovery program that
seems to be working but keeps me running out to check them most every
day. Just lots of stuff to keep us busy, so we are eager to hear from
anyone who wants to join in on the writing, or come to help at Ark Two.
Victoria has been having a computer struggle this week so we didn't get
up the planned video on 'free literature' but she has put up one she had
held in reserve for such a situation.
And now Mad Mimi's having a moment - so we are late getting this out tonight/this morning.
Making a KAP (Kearney Air Pump)
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everyone needs now -
and which we hope they will buy
and support our cause.
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This is a link to the book
everyone will need the day
AFTER the Great Catastrophe -
but which they need to buy
and read NOW!.
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