In an effort to test out the APRS tracking equipment my classmates and I will be using on our nearspace ballon project, I will be mounting all of the gear in my car over the semester break. Starting tomorrow you'll be able to track my whereabouts using the global APRS network as I travel from Tempe, AZ to Durango, CO. The callsign for the tracker will be "KD0EHH-1." My trip is expected to last until August 27th, I'll try to keep the tracker operational as long as possible over the next week. Thanks to aprs.fi you can check my location via the live map below.

My desktop has been running pretty well for two years without reloading windows and I finally have the chance to clean it up with a reformat. I contemplated installing Vista as the main OS but I'm not quite ready to give up on XP. Vista has an attractive interface and is a touch more secure than XP, but it's just not worth the driver hassles. The last installation of Vista had a crazy hibernation problem that caused graphics problems upon wakeing up. I know that I'll eventualy have to move up to a new MS OS, hopefully Windows 7 will be a bit better.

Early in the morning (1:00am) on August 11th, 2008 as my friends and I were attempting to leave Las Vegas after attending BlackHat and Defcon, I picked a strange signal on 5.900MHz. It was a very weak AM transmission of a women's voice repeating the names of colors, "Purple, Purple, Black, Red, Green, Black, Blue..." This was recived near Boulder City, NV around 1:00am. I havn't been able to find any infromation relateing to this station's purpose or identification on the internet. The repeating color names seems similar to the triditional "numbers station" type transmission. If anyone has infromation reguarding this signal please leave a comment, I would love to know more about the nature of this singal.

Update: It seems that Numbers Station V02 is located at 5.898MHz. It transmits numbers in Spanish from Cuba, which ends up sounding a lot like color names at a very low signal quality. V02 is most likely my mystery signal.