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ABOUT ME
AMATEUR RADIO
LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
OTHER COMPUTER STUFF!
RADIO STUFF
STREAMING MEDIA STUFF
OTHER STUFF!
Hi!
Welcome
to my website!
I'm
Bob Chandler, amateur radio operator VE3SRE
in Toronto, ON. I
also hold Quebec callsign VA2SRE.
I've been
licensed as an amateur (ham) radio operator since 1990.
I'm
a somewhat active ham
radio contester, VHF/UHF weak signal enthusiast and self-confessed
media junkie. I'm also particularly interested in GNU/Linux and
other types of free and open
source computer software, most of which is just as good and often
better than proprietary software.
I work for a non-profit adult education centre in Toronto where I do a mix of systems administration, employment counselling and computer instruction for beginners.
This site is very much a "work in progress". Sometimes I muck around here and add new stuff or do updates. Sometimes I go for months without getting a chance to do anything with it.
At some point I may switch over to using a web content management system such as Drupal or Joomla. If you've got any tips or any advice on this stuff, I'm all ears...and feel free to drop me a note.
I work for a non-profit adult education centre in Toronto where I do a mix of systems administration, employment counselling and computer instruction for beginners.
This site is very much a "work in progress". Sometimes I muck around here and add new stuff or do updates. Sometimes I go for months without getting a chance to do anything with it.
At some point I may switch over to using a web content management system such as Drupal or Joomla. If you've got any tips or any advice on this stuff, I'm all ears...and feel free to drop me a note.
This
site "went live" in the summer of 2006 and these days (early 2009)
seems to be getting between 1,000 and 1,200 unique "hits" per
month. Alot of those "hits" are of course search engines
indexing the site. But there's enough traffic to indicate that at least
some folks are finding stuff here that's useful.
Where are they coming from? For the first part of 2009, the top countries producing visitors were:
I've looked at this site once or twice in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, and some of it doesn't look quite right. Mostly because alot of my graphics are free and open source ".png" instead of ".gif" and Micro$oft's old dinosaur web browser doesn't fully support the .png file format.
Microsoft does appear to have fixed this problem in I.E. 7.
But then, I refuse to use I.E. Especially when there are so many better web browsers available!
If you use Mozilla Firefox, Sea Monkey Web Suite, Opera, Flock, K-Meleon, Safari, Google Chrome, Konqueror, Galeon or Epiphany, everything should look fine!
I'm a big fan of streaming audio. If you are as well you might want to have a look at this page for a listing of Toronto area AM stations, and this page for Toronto area FM stations. I've also got some useful links to public, campus and community radio across Canada, the U.S., the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland on this page.
If you want to get ahold of me you can e-mail me at feedback@ve3sre.com. Due to all the spambots out there , this address is a bit of a "honeypot" and I don't check this address all that often. But I like to hear from you anyway even if just to let me know what you liked (or didn't like) on the site.
Where are they coming from? For the first part of 2009, the top countries producing visitors were:
| 1. U.S.A. |
6. Romania |
| 2. Canada |
7. Czech
Republic |
| 3. Brazil |
8. Australia,
China, Poland |
| 4. Germany |
9. Estonia,
France |
| 5. Netherlands |
10. Denmark,
Finland, Hungary, Turkey |
I've looked at this site once or twice in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, and some of it doesn't look quite right. Mostly because alot of my graphics are free and open source ".png" instead of ".gif" and Micro$oft's old dinosaur web browser doesn't fully support the .png file format.
Microsoft does appear to have fixed this problem in I.E. 7.
But then, I refuse to use I.E. Especially when there are so many better web browsers available!
If you use Mozilla Firefox, Sea Monkey Web Suite, Opera, Flock, K-Meleon, Safari, Google Chrome, Konqueror, Galeon or Epiphany, everything should look fine!
I'm a big fan of streaming audio. If you are as well you might want to have a look at this page for a listing of Toronto area AM stations, and this page for Toronto area FM stations. I've also got some useful links to public, campus and community radio across Canada, the U.S., the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland on this page.
If you want to get ahold of me you can e-mail me at feedback@ve3sre.com. Due to all the spambots out there , this address is a bit of a "honeypot" and I don't check this address all that often. But I like to hear from you anyway even if just to let me know what you liked (or didn't like) on the site.
