Track your route on Google Earth

Now you've got your Garmin Nuvi GPS and you know about Google Earth. How about combining the two interesting things?
The easiest way is seeing your rute you've made on your Nuvi on the Google Earth. Too bad that my Nuvi has no capability to talk with Google Earth; so the option to combine the Nuvi data is doing by manually.

First fireup your Nuvi and connect to your computer. Fireup also your Google Earth programmed. After succesfully acces the Google Earth server drag a file with the extension .GPX from your Nuvi to the Places Folder.

Soon will be created a place called GPS Device consisting waypoint, tracks and routes.
Now you will see the tracks on the Google earth screen and sure also with some waypoint from your favorites.
Very interesting and nice.
So if you wanna see where your mate have been going you could grab his GPS and load the .gpx to your google earth, and you'll see where the place he's been visiting.....

Shopwiki : ......a new wiki?

Being influenced with internet we've already know about some wiki: wikipedia provides the encyclopedia, wikimapia provides wiki for map.
Now what about shopwiki?
Does it provide also wiki on shop? You bet it.
As a surfer, and also a ham radio, who's progressive, maintain the knowledge and skill, shoping via internet is a must.

We can order such as book [I've several time made order to ARRL, bought ON4UN Low Band DX-ing, ARRL HandBook and even HamRadio Map] and get satisfied with the service.
What about the other things? Now, just like a wiki, shopwiki provide plenty of things you could buy.

As a ham radio, sometime coffe and tea is the best friend along chasing the rare station, sure you could order kitchen and dinings things, coffee maker, toaster and steamer so you don't need worry along the night on your radio room.
With a hundred of groups things you could search the good that you need from your computer.
From accesories, automotive things and also wedding things such as wedding rings.

What about some celebrations after tired and long contesting? Sure you could toast with friend with some wine, sure also you can get the wine glasses from shopwiki....Just try it!

No sunspot : .......how about playing spades?

What actually will you do if the band conditions is so poor, with the lowest sunspot? Stil need chasing dx-station?
There're several choice being paused on dx-ing: maintaining the radio-shack, or just relax with friend playing spade maybe? Spade? Yes, there'll be an interesting choice waiting the sun spot.
According wikipedia Spade is a partnership trick-taking card game, in which the object is for each pair or partnership to take at least the number of tricks they bid on before play began. Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games which also includes Bridge, Hearts and Oh, Hell. Its major difference as compared to other whist variants is that, instead of trump being decided by the highest bidder or at random, the spade suit is always trump, hence the name.
You can play alone by yourself or playing with friends.
How about online spades? Sure you can learn first how to play spade. Then you can play with your friends. If you dare enough to play with money online spade sure you could try and proof how best you are on spades.
Spadester as online spades on internet claims better than Yahoo Spades, Pogo Spade or even MSN Spade. You can log in and get practice, the you can upgrade playing online with friends.
If you dare enough you could play on line with the money and you can earn the cash.
You can also joining the online tournament with the real online score... Very nice.
So...if you wanna pausing for a while, waiting the sun spot just got relax, playing spade will be one interesting choice....