{"id":21585,"date":"2016-09-30T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21585"},"modified":"2016-09-30T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:45:11","slug":"datawake-stevens-new-floating-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/datawake-stevens-new-floating-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Datawake: Steven’s new “floating lab”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Steven K. Roberts<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor, Steven Roberts<\/a>, who shares the following update:<\/p>\n

Hi, Thomas!! Thought I\u2019d send an update\u2026 I did in fact find a buyer for Nomadness, and have since gone to the Dark Side\u2026 for 8 months, I have been living aboard my Delta 50 named Datawake. The sale of Nomadness was via the geek grapevine\u2026 last Spring I built a power cart named Shacktopus, and West Mountain Radio used my story about it as their quarterly newsletter. A fellow on the East Coast read that, followed the links, recognized my bike, saw the Amazon 44, and bought it\u2026 and he is now preparing to head down the Pacific Coast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Steven K. Roberts<\/p><\/div>\n

Here\u2019s the new ship, and the console now includes four HF rigs, D-Star, a few SDR devices, crosspoint audio routing with web interface, electronics lab, and networking goodies. Nice to be back on the air after a year without a proper skyhook!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/microship.com\/meet-datawake\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amazing, Steven! You have a super power in your ability to turn boats, bikes and pretty much anything into mobile techno-wonders! What craftsmanship!<\/p>\n

I love Datawake and appreciate the tour with photos and details you’ve posted<\/a>. I noticed the Icom IC-7300–perhaps we can have a QSO someday on the air? I’ll look forward to any report you may have about the IC-7300 as a maritime mobile station.<\/p>\n

We look forward to future updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Steven Roberts, who shares the following update: Hi, Thomas!! Thought I\u2019d send an update\u2026 I did in fact find a buyer for Nomadness, and have since gone to the Dark Side\u2026 for 8 months, I have been living aboard my Delta 50 named Datawake. The sale of Nomadness was via […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43,5,1154],"tags":[5505,4010,2195,3969,4082,1667,1794],"class_list":["post-21585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","category-travel","tag-datawake","tag-maritime-mobile","tag-maritime-operation","tag-maritime-radio","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-steven-roberts","tag-the-nomadness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5C9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7588,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/buy-a-hi-tech-sail-boat-complete-with-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":21585,"position":0},"title":"Buy a hi-tech sailboat, complete with shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"October 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"With all of the recent posts on maritime radio, I can't help but jump slightly off-topic for a moment... 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