Tony is a Geek

Well, it's been a while since my last post.  Have I been up to anything technical? Yes & No. I've returned to the world of campervans! My previous motorhome (Kontiki 635) was stolen back at the end of April 2024 :-(  After a reasonably painless insurance claim process & lots of UK Police time, the motorhome was "found", however, it had been crashed / trashed - so was a write-off. I wasn't looking for another one, however, I then just happened to stumble upon a 2008 VW Crafter Campervan that ticked a LOT of boxes.  It was a professional conversion, it had a full size shower and a proper thetford cartridge toilet.  It had a king-size bed.  It has central heating - yes, the previous one had central heating, but that was a £65k van, this one was £16k! It has a solar panel, leisure battery and all connected up & working okay. It has a great layout inside, someone previously really thought about the design.  I'm the 4th owner and it's done 145k mile

I decided to get a tattoo.  Here is what the final result will look like: Here is what it looks like today: Next Friday, I'll have the "blue colouring" overlaid, so will provide an updated image. What has the got to do with anything?  A little while back I was experimenting with SDR  (Software Defined Radio) USB sticks, antenna's, Raspberry Pis, UBuntu laptops and tracking planes and ships (ADB-S and AIS data) I recently started working with some software from octo.us  : just replace the . with a p & you see the serendipity of the universe! CXEdge is of special interest ;-) Then, earlier this week I was having a discussion about the work I did with the SDRs a year ago and how some other people/companies are just about catching up..... Then today I was introduced to this little device:   CHECKOUT the WEBSITE for MORE INFO HERE They also have a TAK plugin that integrates nicely with Node-Red too:  https://github.com/canaryradio/Kraken-to-TAK Now, just need to justi