Copasetic Flow

Writing a Facebook Connect application can be done in about half an hour using the newly updated Javascript API. No more server side code required! Here are the steps: 1. Setup a Facebook applicaiton Go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/developers/ and click on the 'Set Up New App' button to setup a new application. On the about page, enter the application's name and a short description. On the 'Web Site' tab, enter the URL of the web domain that will serve the web page you will put your login box on. Copy the 'Application ID' from this same tab. Click on 'Save Changes'. 2. Add the Facebook javascript library to your web page Place the following div and script on your web page. The div won't actually display anything, it's just to bring in the Facebook code. I place it at the bottom of my web pages: 3. Initialize the facebook library with your application ID Execute the following line of code somewhere in your page's javascript. ...

Don't forget to apply for scholarships through the ARRL. The deadline is February 1st of 2011. They have college scholarships for amateur radio operators. Several of the scholarships offered are geography specific. Check out the map below and see if your state has one of these scholarships. Scholarship Descriptions Scholarship Application View ARRL Scholarship in a larger map

I started a new project recently to determine if I could hack a Disney walkie-talkie into a QRP set. At first blush, it looks kind of simple, like maybe even a crystal replacement would do the trick. Has anyone tried this? Is there a reason it specifically won't work? Here are two pictures of the circuit board. The front looks simple enough. the back-side on the other hand... nothing by sm caps and resistors and transistors.

Just a few links to sites that use or link to the ham radio exams. Jim's Engraving (lots of good ham radio stuff) KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog Northeast Weak Signal Group Arcadiana Amateur Radio Association ARRL QRP Amateur Radio Club International Mike and Key.org Gold Coast Amateur Radio Association W1MLK Radio Sequoia Amateur Radio Group New Zealand Amateur Radio Study Guide North American DX Association ARRL Bluetube Project SolderSmoke KB7TBT Jim's Engraving Decatur (Alabama) Amateur Radio Club Acadiana Amateur Radio Association Sam's Radio Hams Milliwatt - BRATS Newsletter" Big Bend Amateur Radio Club New Providence Amateur Radio Club South Bay Amateur Radio Association shaunlippy.org KP4NKE AeroARC WC5C Delta Amateur Radio Club KB1VCZ ddxa.org N9JRV Valley of the Moon Amateur Radio Club Raleigh Amateur Radio Society" G3XBM LWRA K6AA

I've been porting the ham radio practice exams to facebook lately. The process for this wasn't entirely obvious to me and there were quite a few issues. This series of posts will try to make the process more obvious and highlight the issues I hit so you can avoid them. For now, I'll just point you at a list of the posts that will slowly flush out and my list of stumbleupon bookmarks I accumulated while doing research for the project. Table of Contents Facebook on Google App Engine Resources

Click image above to go to logbook entries FM5Ld from Martinique was spotted today. Cool stuff about Martinique: It's an overseas region of France. It's part of an island arc along the Puerto Rico Trench that is the boundary between the Caribbean Sean and the Atlantic Ocean.

The DX spot of the day on copaseticflows was a QSO from OZ4Z to CU3HQ in the Azores. Not a bad looking place!