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Discussion / Amateur Radio At Cfz2015
« on: May 10, 2015, 23:55:25 »
Hey guys,


I've noticed a bit of chatter from friends attending CFZ who also hold amateur radio licences - a few are planning to bring their handheld radios with them to keep in contact (why not, if a Baofeng, VX-3E or whatever fits in your pocket?).

Rather than clutter up the standard calling channels with convention chatter, we figured it'd be a good idea to shuffle convention-specific chatter off onto another calling channel, as is sometimes done at radio rallies (the "talk-in" channels on the RSGB band plan).

That being the case, my friends and I have come to a sort of gentlemans' agreement to use the following frequencies:

  2-metres VHF: 145.45MHz CTCSS 123.0Hz
  70cm UHF (Experimental!): 433.45MHz CTCSS 123.0Hz

2m is intended to be the main one; we're expecting the best range from that. I'll be doing a quick range check on UHF on the first night and if that bears fruit then we might use that as an alternate, but chances are all the fun will be happening on 2m.

For anyone wondering "why CTCSS?" - my friends and I are mostly using Baofengs, and level-based squelching tends to be hit and miss on those. 123.0Hz is a CTCSS frequency which isn't on the repeater allocation map (http://www.ukrepeater.net/access.htm), and is nice and easy to remember. Please wait a second (about as long as it takes to say "one elephant") after keying before speaking, for the benefit of those using channel-scan or dual-watch!

I may also lurk on the standard calling frequency (145.5MHz) but only intermittently. I obviously can't speak for anyone else ^.^

There's a possibility that I may try and put together a "Foxhunt" (radio direction finding challenge) as a fun, unofficial (i.e. nothing to do with CFZ), side-event, but this depends on me getting a low-power transmitter set up in time. All are welcome to this - all you'll need is a scanner radio (or a Baofeng or similar amateur radio configured as a receiver).

I'll update this thread and try to get the word out at the con if the foxhunt goes ahead. (Is there going to be a noticeboard or similar near Ops this year?)
 
Comments welcome, please!

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Feedback / CFZ Gallery thumbnails
« on: June 13, 2014, 14:56:26 »
I'm not sure if this is the right board for the question, but I'll ask it anyway:

Could the thumbnails in the Gallery (http://gallery.confuzzled.org.uk/) be made a bigger? The ~150x100 pixel ones are a bit too small to see what's going on in the photo...

Thanks!
-SF

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Discussion / My CFz2014 photos
« on: June 09, 2014, 01:41:49 »
... As few as there are, mine are on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/philpem/sets/72157644569485467/

Nudge me on Twitter (@philpem), via Flickr Mail or on UKfur if you'd like a hi-res or non-watermarked copy of any of these.

Cheers,
-SF

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Nice simple question from me - for a change :)

Is there any possibility of some of the previous ConFuzzled T-shirts being made available again (e.g. print-on-demand)?
I'm quite fond of the 2012 CFZ T-shirt, to the point where one of mine is pretty close to worn out and the other is nipping at its feet.

Another thing that'd be cool is desktop wallpaper sized versions of the CFZ 2012 thru 2014 shirt designs. The 2013 and 2014 designs ("hidden badger" and "not going to space today") would look damn fine on just about all my machines, and I could probably get away with having the 2014 one on my PC at work too... :)

Cheers,
-SF

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Feedback / Public list of fursuit badges
« on: June 05, 2013, 16:04:24 »
I'll put my photographer hat on for this one  ;D

For the past couple of years, Eurofurence have provided a public list of the fursuit badges which they issued, along with the image the fursuiter provided (photo or whatever) -- http://fursuit.eurofurence.org/past/
I've been using that to sort through CFZ photos and figure out which fursuiters I'd seen, met up with or caught on camera (a few attend both CFZ and EF) but there are still a few who only attend CFZ.

Is there any possibility of ConFuzzled doing something similar?

If it's a question of making the data available in an accessible form (i.e. "put a pretty front end on the data"), I'd be happy to help out with that.

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