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Home of the DXrobot - Gouda - The Netherlands

The DXrobot

Hardware

• Intel Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz
• 512 MB memory
• 40 GB hard disk
• see also demystifying photos

Operating System

• Linux Fedora Core 8

Software:

• Webserver: Apache
• Mailserver: Sendmail
• Mailinglist manager: Majordomo
• Mailinglist manager web interface: MajorCool
• & a lot of self written spaghetti (scripts in bash, shell, cshell, perl, etc)

Distributed computing:

• The idle CPU cycles on the DXrobot server are used for a distributed computing project from the Stanford University called Folding@Home. This project studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

Radio

50 MHz

• Eagle 5 elements Yagi beam at 19 m asl
• Microwave Modules transverter 50/144 MHz
• Tokyo HighPower P.A. 100 Watts

144 MHz

• Quedee 15 elements Yagi beam at 16 m asl
• SSB preamplifier
• ICOM IC271E  transceiver
• Mirage B2516 P.A. 100 Watts

440 MHz (only for packetradio)

• TEKK transceiver 5 Watts
• Symek TNC-2H controller 9K6

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