People--
[K2 related stuff included, scroll down]
The upshot of this "webbeacons" thing (they're also known as "webbugs")
is that email from Yahoogroups that is in HTML format can do anything a
web page can do...and this includes requesting that images be downloaded
to your computer. A webbug is an invisible image having a specially
crafted image name that is specific to you personally, and thus lets the
server that the request goes to know that the Internet address that the
request is made from is being used by the person whose the account the
email was sent to.
There's a few good ways to combat this:
Don't use HTML mail.
Don't allow Yahoo to convert mail sent to you to HTML format (this
allows them to send you banner ads embedded in the email too).
And most importantly, use an email client that woun't automatically load
remote images even if somebody sends you one. I use Thunderbird and
Firebird for email and web browsing respecively on both Linux and
Windows for this reason among others.
http://www.mozilla.orgAnd just to keep things on-topic...
My lifepartener NG3P yesterday finished the K2SB, we installed it in K2
S/N 1641, and it worked like a champ from our basement to my station
upstairs. While I was taking my Sunday afternoon nap, NG3P worked
#1641's first QSO down into TN someplace with a 20m dipole in the front
yard. I used that same antenna to work K3SUE (who's only a few miles
away). I discovered that I could barely work Sue at all through my
regular HF antenna, a G5RV in the back yard, which had recently been moved.
Long story short, I discovered that the window pass-through I've been
using with the G5RV for several years has a serious flaw: the ground
side of the coax connection is not passed through the pass-through. At
all. Considering that th emain function of a pass-though is to pass
stuff through, I consider that a major shortcoming. :-)
I think this explains some of the odd performance problems I've been
having running the K2 from my shack, and demonstrates that, while an LDG
autotuner will indeed tune almost anything to almost any frequency
within its rated range, it can also cover up some truly nasty problems
in your antenna system if you're not paying attention.
73 de Maggie K3XS
Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb -
http://www.phil-mont.orgElecraft K2 #1641
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