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Name: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Member since: 2001-04-06 12:31:31
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Projects

Helper on GNU
Developer on Debian
Helper on Emacs
Helper on Gnus
Helper on FSF Emacs
Lead Developer on advodiary-el

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11 Mar 2005 (updated 11 Mar 2005 at 12:39 UTC) »

I finally got my amateur radio licence yesterday with a callsign VU3RDD. Within afew minutes of getting the license paper, I made my first "QSO" on VHF with VU2QNY, another fellow ham from Bangalore. He was equally excited when I said it is my first QSO! May be I should keep a seperate amateur radio Blog.

I need to setup my station now. I designed a simple QSL card with Scribus and it was really a breeze. Scribus is really nice and easy to learn. I need to improve upon my design and create a better card.

On the GNU Radio front, my 2.3 packages are stuck in NEW for more than a month now. In this period, a new swig version was uploaded which will mean 2.3 won't build. So I need to upload 2.4, which is ready too. I also wrote a signal processing block which does filtering on one path and a delay on another and sent a patch to Eric. The copyright process with FSF is also done.

26 Feb 2005 (updated 26 Feb 2005 at 15:02 UTC) »

I decided to do a monthly blog entries from now on, as it makes more sense to me.

This month was probably one of the busiest one in my recent past, yet it was one of the most productive one. I created the packages from GNU Radio, experimented with different stuff. Everytime I encountered problems, I had to go and delve into books, study the old graduate class stuff again and come back to my programs. It was fun stuff and at the end I am seeing good results.

I believe, SDR is going to get more people into Amateur Radio. It will foster the idea of homebrewing and experimentation back into the hobby.

I finally got the copyright assignment documents ready from me and my employer to the FSF (for gnuradio) and sent it to the FSF office. This is my second contribution to a GNU project.

There is no progress in my amateur radio license front. The only option infront of me seem to be migrating to a different country and I have started working on that! I do not hope that Govt of India will wake up on the issue some day. They have other important clients in the cellular business where millions of rupees are changing hands. Who is bothered about this non-commercial amateur radio?

This month, the government finally opened up the domain name registration and people started registering all kinds of domainnames. I helped transfer debian.org.in into SPI, registered the domain arsi.org.in for the Amateur Radio Society of India and radio.net.in for myself.

9 Feb 2005 (updated 9 Feb 2005 at 12:53 UTC) »

I am posting after a long time. Nothing much has changed in these days, except that I am now getting a bit more time to spend on my free software projects.

swig

From the swig homepage:

2004/12/14 SWIG-1.3.24 has been released.
2004/11/11 SWIG-1.3.23 has been released.

Why are these releases not available in Debian? I need a newer version for building the latest gnuradio tarballs.

11 Jan 2005 »

This is really great news for the Free Software community. Thanks IBM.

9 Jan 2005 (updated 9 Jan 2005 at 14:52 UTC) »

I finished reading Free Culture by Prof. Larry Lessig. It's a wonderful book and should be read by anyone who is even remotely connected with creative work. After reading the book, I now better understand the Copyright issues. I have decided to buy the other books written by Lessig and Siva Vaidyanathan.

Yesterday I bought the Art of Electronics, the classic book on electronic circuits. I am also slowly catching up on my readings on Coding Theory.

Cringely has written another brilliant piece on building a Tsunami Warning System. His idea is neat, afew have already started working on such a system, but has afew flaws. There are currently no sensors in the Indian Ocean. Without the actual sensor sitting somewhere, monitoring the waves, nothing can be built on top, which can save lives. And two, this part of the world, unlike the west, do not keep monitoring the weather channel all the time. Weather is something taken for granted, because there is often no wide variation expected in a given day. So evenif such a system existed, it may not be of much help. It needs a change in the attitude of people. And three, reaching out to the people after getting the warning is another big issue. In my opinion, we need more radio amateurs than anyone else when a disaster strikes. So, in theory, his ideas are great, but it may not work very well in India.

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