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Today I want to talk about something that might feel only tangentially related to our hobby, but it likely affects you....
It’s hard to imagine today, but there was a time when there was no such thing as either the 80m or the 20m amateur band, let alone 2m or 70cm....
Over the years you’ve heard me utter the phrase: “Get on air and make some noise!”. It’s not an idle thought. The intent behind it is to start, to do something, anything, and find yourself a place within the hobby of amateur radio and the community surrounding it....
Much is made in our hobby about working DX, that is sending and receiving distant radio signals. How distant is up for debate. Depending on where you are, DX might be outside the continent, outside the country, or in my case you could easily say, anything outside of my state, since the nearest border is about 1,240 km away from...
Now here’s some serious signal processing happening!
Anyone know of any scriptable asynchronous communication tools?...
Some life lessons require additional reinforcement from time to time. This week I was strongly encouraged to remember a lesson that can be summarised as: “A place for everything and everything in its place.” It was first uttered like that to me a quarter of a century ago by a client who used it frequently around their staff....
After pulling my hair out for a bit and some wonderful support from jeffpc@mastodon.radio, I have now compiled hlog and hlog-contest, a console based logger that supports contests defined in #lua and published the result on GitHub for your enjoyment.
In the early 1920’s long distance communication using radio was a growing interest. At the time it was thought that communication that we take for granted today, over long-distance HF, was limited to long wave or extremely low frequencies, the lower the better. With that restriction came massive antennas and high power...
A great deal of energy is expended on the notion of operating portable. I’ve talked about this plenty of times. Issues like power, antennas, suitable radios, logging, transport and time of day all come to mind. Some activities are framed specifically as portable operations. Things like Summits On The Air, or SOTA, Parks On The...
U2F keys can be purchased online for the price of a cup of coffee. They’re being touted as the next best thing in online security authentication....
By Onno VK6FLAB...
Genie: There are 3 rules… no wishing for death, no falling in love, no bringing back dead people....
By Onno VK6FLAB...
If you’d like to catch up with the team who went on an epic DXpedition to activate Amsterdam Island using #FT5ZM in 2014, I’ve just uploaded the 26 interviews I did while they were using Perth as their staging point....
By Onno VK6FLAB...
By Onno VK6FLAB...
By Onno VK6FLAB...
If you want to connect a #USB device across a #TCP/IP network, you can use #usbip to make that happen....
By Onno VK6FLAB...
Well … the time has come for me to spread my wings and explore other platforms....