2 meters is pretty dead around here lately, using it as test signals for my SDR. I use the NOAA weather transmitters around 162 MHz instead. Yep, I had a 1st phone too, got it around 1976, gave it up about 1982 because it got me nothing but minimum wage jobs and then I spent 26 years working for colleges. Got a ham ticket again when the code requirement went away, haven't been on the air in 8 years or so now.
Looks like you installed a fair chunk of Gnome. The stuff you installed got swallowed up by Gnome so in order to get it Gnome came with it. You'll maybe notice a difference when you apt-get upgrade. I would think the solaar wouldn't do any good unless you already had the Logitech hardware. I wanted just a wireless keyboard with a touchpad or trackball I could stick in my lap, because I wanted to stick a Pi in the living room connected to my 40" TV over HDMI. My mother has trouble seeing a 24" monitor, she could fairly painlessly switch to a Pi it seems. On 9/4/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 04 September 2017 18:22:53 Alan Corey wrote: > >> > But unless they are sneaking in under the FCC's radar, which they >> > aren't else customs would padlock the container, it does have to be >> > an FCC approved frequency and protocol in order to be able to label >> > it with an >> >> Actually, that's a good question since there's a ham band from >> 2300-2450 which we "share" with other users at the top. In return for >> being outnumbered at least 1000:1 we can run more power, but malicious >> interference is verboten. It wouldn't be the first time something >> like this slid by though, a new service. >> http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/allocations.html But you >> can buy a WiFi card for $5, a ham rig is more like at least $100 and >> hams are a dying breed. >> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Hambands4-web-c >>olor_4-25-17.pdf > > Yeah. Being a 1st Phone holder of yore when it actually was a 1st Phone, > I am profanity sensitive when its coming out of my speakers tied to a > radio, and I got my fill of that on the chicken band in the 60's-70's, > sold my last big rig in 1983. The one "CB" radio I wish I still had. 55 > very clean watts pep out of the box on SSB. 10 miles, or 12k miles, no > big diff to that rig. Turned around and put the sheckles into a > TI-99/4a. THEN found out that if you wanted to make a computer out of > it, bring another thousand bucks. The hams have well fouled their nest, > so I can see why the numbers are dwindling, except for tech class on 2 > meters. Maybe even there. Haven't followed it in 20 years. > >> On 9/4/17, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Unifying_receiver >> > It's sort of like Bluetooth without pairing. Not sure about the FCC >> > part but it's 2.4 GHz like Bluetooth or WiFi. >> > >> > On 9/4/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> >> On Monday 04 September 2017 12:07:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:31:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> > But aren't the huge majority of the wireless keyboards and mice >> >>> > just BT at the core? Max reliable range when the dongles can >> >>> > see the master is about 20 feet. I put the mouse in the box the >> >>> > pi is in, and had BT do a scan with bluetoothctl, while I >> >>> > jiggled the mouse, nothing detected. >> >>> >> >>> Certainly Logitech's wireless is not BT. I seem to recall reading >> >>> that they found BT way too unreliable and instead use their own >> >>> protocol. Not sure about other makes. >> >> >> >> But unless they are sneaking in under the FCC's radar, which they >> >> aren't else customs would padlock the container, it does have to be >> >> an FCC approved frequency and protocol in order to be able to label >> >> it with an FCC iD # of JNZYR0017 on the bottom of this K360. It >> >> also has regulatory labels from at least a dozen other national >> >> regulatory agencies from all over the planet. A very busy label. >> >> So the frequency and protocol are supposedly known to the various >> >> regulatory agencies. The above Jnumber doesn't not search in their >> >> database, at least not those pieces I can access. >> >> >> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett >> >> -- >> >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> >> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >> > >> > -- >> > ------------- >> > No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality >> > problem"? - AB1JX >> > Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach >> > Impeach > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
