So, I've been toying around with building my own transciever. I decided to start with the receiver first at 40m because it's just easier to build than a transmitter. Besides, I don't think I would have privileges in the 40m band (but they've restructured, so I don't know if I qualify or not, I have to research it).
I have a lot of the pieces I would need. NE602 IC (RF Amp, and Oscillator), LM386N (AF Amp), some other parts as well. I am missing a couple of variable capacitors, and a pot. I can get that somewhere else though. Oh, and I have to wind my own toroid... which is gonna suck. I need to get the core for that too.
I was playing with the oscilloscope last night at home... just going through the instruction manual with the callibrator signal. It's pretty cool! The last time I played around with radio and electronics was in 2002. I built a transmitter from a kit, and an amp.
I have some pictures here from playing with the scope:

So, I ran a "yum update" on my work box today, and I noticed that when the kernel RPM was installed, kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7, mkinitrd gave the following errors:

/sbin/mkinitrd: line 173: 22918 Segmentation fault      $ldso --verify $bin > /dev/null 2>&1

About 80 lines of it! Running mkinitrd manually causes the same issue. I don't quite know what's happening. This is Fedora 7.

#mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.15-80.fc7.img 2.6.23.15-80.fc7
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 173: 22918 Segmentation fault      $ldso --verify $bin > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 173: 22919 Segmentation fault      $ldso --verify $bin > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 173: 22987 Segmentation fault      $ldso --verify $bin > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 173: 22988 Segmentation fault      $ldso --verify $bin > /dev/null 2>&1