The Boring Ham Radio Part
Ramblings on Amateur Radio, Flying, Programming, Martial Arts, the Macintosh and Who Knows What.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
The Challenge of a New QTH
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A decade ago, my wife and I spent four years in Floyd County in one of her church postings. We loved the area, and imagined we'd retire ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Forty Years of Personal Computing - 16/32-bit Dreams
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Back in the days when we were fooling with 8-bit computers, we dreamed about 16 or 32-bit processors. Digging through my notes and records, ...
Monday, September 30, 2024
Cycle 25 is Kicking Butt
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Don't know why I didn't write about this when it happened. August 9th, the daily Sunspot Number (SSN) was 382. That seemed enormousl...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
RTTY Contest Operation and Messages
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In 1985, I built a home-brew decoder and experimented with RTTY, but I never got it to work. I've since decided that I didn't know ...
Friday, June 28, 2024
The Great LoTW Outage - Continues.
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Update July 1, 2024. LoTW is back up! It is running slow, but it is available. Thank goodness. -- When I wrote the article back in May, I h...
Monday, June 17, 2024
RealVNC Changes Terms, without Notice.
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Just over three years ago, I figured out how to Remotely operate FT8 using a product called RealVNC. RealVNC had a Home plan that allowed ...
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Saturday, June 1, 2024
FT8 is supposed to make DXing easy, why is it so hard?
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FT8 has been a revolution. The technology has made DXing really easy. Or has it? I continue to be amazed at how much difficulty people have ...
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