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I have heard a lot of people crying out for the government to support their favorite amendment, the first gets a lot of press, and so does the 2nd occasionally. You will hear about 4th amendment arguments, it seems more lately than 20 years ago, and many have complained about the 8th amendment not being upheld when it comes to sentencing those convicted of crimes. Rarely you will hear anyone argue in support of my favorite amendment, the 10th, until recently that is.
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My base/mobile radio is a Yaesu FT-897. This is an all mode transceiver covering HF as well as 2m and 70cm. I have the optional batteries so I can go out in the sticks and still have a usable radio.

I also got the remote mic, which lets me control just about every radio function without having to mess with the radio itself, and as a bonus this mic also works as a morse keyer.

Yaesu VX-8r

I have a Yaesu VX-8r as my primary handheld. I like this radio, it has a built in TNC for APRS tracking. This radio has wideband receive, and does fairly well receiving shortwave broadcasts (although the VX6r appears to be better).

This radio is a quad band 6m,1.25m,2m,70cm transceiver as well with 2 full VFOs, allowing me to listen to a wide range of things at the same time.

I added the optional bluetooth module and paired it with an Ant headset which works quite well. I also added the optional GPS receiver, making the APRS functionality more meaningful.

I just reinstalled this after a prolonged absence, hopefully I can post relevant information here in the near future.

As some of you may know I wrote a xml-cdr curl processing class in PHP for FreeSWITCH.  This was required because PHP4 did not have a native XML processor.  PHP5 is old enough that it should be installed everywhere now, and that usually provides a simple xml parsing library.  I like the simplexml stuff in PHP5 better than I do the stuff I wrote, so I will explain how to use it.

<?php

if(isset($_POST['cdr'])) {

$cdr = simplexml_load_string($_POST['cdr']);

// do your validation code here

// This is just an example, you would probably want to store this in a database instead

$fh = fopen(“/tmp/cdr.xml.”.uniqid(), ‘wb’);

fwrite($fh,”Channel created at ” . $cdr->callflow->times->created_time . “\n”);
fwrite($fh, $_POST['cdr'] . “\n\nprint_r\n\n”);
fwrite($fh,print_r($cdr,true).”\n\n”);
fclose($fh);

}
?>

That is all there is to it, much easier to use, although there is a slightly different way to access variables from what I had previously written.  You may notice the $cdr->callflow->times->created_time variable.  How this works is you have an XML file, callflow is a child of the root node, times is a child of callflow and created_time is a child of times.  It is fairly straight forward to process.  If you have multiple entries for example application nodes in the app_log node, you would access it as $cdr->app_log->application[0] and so on.