![]() ![]() ![]() The "Default" control on the CW tab sets that default value. Numeric keypad "*" toggles between the selected TxWPM and a default WPM Numeric keypad "-" decreases the TxWPM by 1 Numeric keypad "+" increases the TxWPM by 1 The transmit encoder settings for WPM can also be adjusted with three hot keys: The Lower/Upper controls are in in 5 WPM increments. The resolution of the TxWPM slider is 1 WPM. "Lower" sets the lower limit of the slider and "Upper" sets the upper limit of the slider. To make the setting easier two additional controls are provided. The TxWPM sliding controller is used to set the transmit WPM. It can increase the probability of correctly identifying the text character under very noisy conditions. "SOM decoding" provides a fuzzy logic implementation to match the RX stream detected on-off sequence to a "best fit" character. The RxWPM control is an indicator and is not used for setting the operation of the CW decoder. You can control the attack and decay squelch parameters of the detector, slow - medium - fast, for both attack and decay. When tracking is enabled the tracking filter is reset every time the transmit WPM is adjusted.ĬW detection is basically an amplitude demodulator with an automatic threshold adjustment. The tracking range (+/- Hz around the TxWPM setting) can be set using the "Rx Trkg Rng" control. Enable Rx WPM tracking by enabling the check box "Enable Tx Trkg". Increasing the filter bandwidth might improve detection in that QRN environment.įldigi can track the incoming signal. A lot of impuse noise (static) can cause the filter to ring. Select "Matched" filter to optimize the filter width for the current transmit WPM setting. ![]() The FFT filter is optimum when receiving CW in a white noise environment. This is a very steep sided low pass filter. The CW decoder uses a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) filter implemented with a sin(x)/x impulse response. It is the digital equivalent of tuning an analog USB transceiver so that the carrier is exactly at the CW carrier frequency. The CW signals are converted to a baseband signal. During operation the Rx and Tx WPM settings are annunciated on the status bar in the two boxes next to the mode indicator. You can also open up the CW tab by first selecting CW as the operating mode and then clicking on the left-most item "CW" on the status bar at the bottom of the fldigi main window. You can open that tab by selecting the "Configure/Modems" menu item and the clicking on the Modems/CW tab. The operating controls for CW are found on the Config/CW tab. Fldigi can send and receive morse code from 5 wpm to 200 wpm. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Whatever awful features were used to depict Whitewash Jones were amplified with Steamboat, and he carried himself with the same poor English and bumbling persona as his Young Allies counterpart. “Sidekick” may be too generous of a term because he essentially served as Captain Marvel’s de facto servant until 1945 when, on appeal from school children, the character was no longer used. Marvel would later denounce the whole series, but it doesn’t wash the pages clean of this ugly representation.Įlsewhere in the industry, the early Captain Marvel had a sidekick named Steamboat. Whitewash was often a device that forced Bucky to have to overcome additional obstacles instead of just assisting in the fight against the Germans. He was sloppily dressed and had a protruding mouth and lips, he spoke broken English and was generally represented as a simpleton. ![]() I suppose the publishers at the time thought these were redeemable and acceptable characters because they were fighting the evil Nazis, but in hindsight, they ended up being racist caricatures that were all too common in those years.īucky’s ally, Whitewash Jones, not only had a superficially racist name but was drawn in a way that made him look more creature than an animal. Exhibits 1A and 1B would be the Bucky Barnes’ led group Young Allies and Captain Marvel’s run, both published at the height of World War II. It won’t surprise you to learn the 1940s and 1950 were not a time that was generally kind to African- Americans in print. The Depiction of Black Sidekicks in Young Allies and Captain Marvel The following are merely a sample of the comics that fit this description. While some of these offenses show up in single issues, several also span the entire series. (Much of this list comes from writers who have wonderfully researched these issues including articles from Complex, Guff, and Ranker.) Racist Comics From the Past But in 2020, they likely belong in the trash, not praised. Do they represent a different time, a part of our past that was culturally different? Yes. But I personally feel strongly that we should be removing these symbols of racist comics from our collections. I’ve read Fahrenheit 451 and I understand the dangers of censorship. I am decidedly not a book-burning advocate. Many of these are going for a decent amount, although I would not consider any of these books as major keys. With that in mind, I want to point out some of the more egregious and prevalent comics from our past with an eye towards removing these symbols of ass-backward thinking from current and future comic book lovers. How Should Comic Collectors Respond to Racist Comics?Īs responsible comic book collectors, investors, and speculators, it should be up to us to help repair (not erase) that part of this hobby and make it clear that we don’t stand for that type of treatment of characters within the pages of our favorite books. For an industry that has existed in this country for more than 100 years, you can only imagine what types of content exist. More recently than any of us probably care to admit, comics were a breeding ground for stereotyping, whitewashing, and generally stomping out the idea that people are equals – even as some of them have powers beyond our imaginations. Let’s explore some comics with seemingly racist overtones and discuss what should be done with them. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the comic book industry is not immune to this self-examination. Everything from governmental departments, the military, companies, nonprofits, universities, and countless other aspects of our daily lives are under the microscope as they are finally reckoning with their past actions and current reactions. If there is anything that the past few weeks have taught us about our country, it’s that there is no individual, entity, or organization that shouldn’t be taking a long, hard look in the mirror at their past (and present) to determine what biases did and do exist. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main option you want to look at is specifying the folder(s) containing your media files. There are quite a few configuration options, but the defaults are quite sane. serviio-console.sh script from the same directory. Unlike PS3 Media Server, there are no issues with the server exiting when you exit the terminal session you’re logged into. If you are running headless, then open up a screen session, and run it from there. ![]() Simply uncompress the downloaded tarball, change to the bin/ directory found in the extracted directory and run the shell script. All that is required is Java 6 and the ffmpeg libraries – both of which are installed by default by the major distributions. However, this server has a wide range of supported renderers, including Samsung TV’s. There is a pay “pro” version, however, this version doesn’t have any features that are particularly useful to me, so I’m using the free version. ![]() Servio is another free cross-platform uPNP/DLNA server. Specify the folders containing your content, and pretty much leave everything else alone – worked for me. You can then pretty much follow your nose from there. Just point your browser to port 30888 on the machine you installed tvmobili on. So open /etc/init.d/tvmobilisvcd in an editor, and replace this line:Ĭonfiguration is pretty straightforward. 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Tvmobili is a cross platform uPNP/DLNA server which works well with Samsung TV’s, as well as a number of other devices. Then download the latest ps3 media server from here. Your distribution should provide the necessary packages. Anyway, into it:įirst thing is to make sure you have a working JAVA runtime. There are a number of options for doing this, but the standard ones didn’t seem to work that well on my setup, so I had to get creative. The main one being getting the thing to run as a daemon. However, for me, and my headless server, it poses a few problems. This is fine for windows users, who would generally run a server with a GUI. PS3 Media Server is written in java and is GUI based. However, it has been adapted to operate with a number of different renderers, including Samsung TV’s. PS3 media server, as the name suggests, is a DLNA server focussed on the PS3 as a DLNA renderer. ![]() So having given up on mediatomb, I turned to ps3 media server. Having originally written this article based on PS3 Media Server, I’ve since also discovered other cross platform servers that work well with Samsung TVs – tvmobili and serviio – so I’ve updated this article to cover that as well. Not very helpful for their customers who run Linux, OSX or have a NAS appliance. Rather than supporting the standard, they have written and support their own Windows only DLNA server. Sadly, Samsung seems to have not implemented the DLNA standard in a sane way, and despite following a number of guides on I found on the internets suggesting sending custom http headers to the TV, I could not get mediatomb to play nicely with the TV.ĭon’t start me on why Samsung can’t make DLNA work properly. I already have mediatomb running on my headless file/mail/web/whatever server, so I thought I’d be all ready to go. Having just bought a Samsung ‘Smart’ TV, I was very keen to take advantage of its built in DLNA media renderer. 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