Friday, December 25, 2009

Panasonic offering ultra-high capacity batteries in 2011?

From TFTS:


New Panasonic Lithium-Ion Battery to Power Up a House [New Li-Ion Battery Coming from Panasonic in 2011]


Panasonic is going to create one of the hottest batteries available to date. The new lithium-ion storage cell should power up a whole house in 2011 when it could be available to the general public. I don’t know about you but I’d want to plug that battery right into my laptop and see how much life it will be able to offer me.
Furnio Otsubo, president of Panasonic said that the new battery should offer sufficient electricity for about one week of use. That’s certainly something I could get used to although I bet the new battery concept is not going to be that affordable.

Read the rest at...


http://nexus404.com/Blog/2009/12/24/new-panasonic-lithium-ion-battery-to-power-up-a-house-new-li-ion-battery-coming-from-panasonic-in-2011/

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

PSK31 ... fun mode, boring conversation

So it seems almost everyone's PSK31 conversations are driven by the macros in the programs.  I can frequently tell what program people are using by the pre-fab comments they send.

I thought hams were into ragchewing? It seems like if I ask a question that isn't answered by a macro button, I just get

de 73 and thanks for this QSO on , good DX in 2009. de sk
and the conversation (such as it is) is over...