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KX1 to the Field
This post is all about ham radio, the great outdoors and being thrifty (cheap). No computers were harmed in the making of this post. Having recovered from blog-block after documenting the simple transmitter, I am just back from Lobstercon again … Continue reading
Tanked.
This post is the last in a series about building a vintage tube transmitter. All ham radio, not a smidge of Linux. The most exciting, and anxiety provoking moment in a homebrew project is the “smoke test.” That moment when … Continue reading
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Tagged Amateur radio, Homebrew, low power, QRP, QRP operation, transmitter
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You can’t get there from here.
Still in an intense ham radio frame of mind, Linux is waiting… I have spent a surprisingly large amount of time trying to figure out the physical layout for point to point wiring of my tube transmitter. Deciding where the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amateur radio, building, ham radio, Homebrew, low power, QRP, transmitter
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Holes.
This post is all ham radio, with the emphasis on home brewing. About as far from Linux as you can get. As I have mentioned earlier in the year, I am a bit obsessed with the idea of home-brewing a … Continue reading
Not Exactly a Post.
This is not exactly a post, but it is all ham radio. Linux will have to wait for next time. I provided a short article about the Mobilinkd APRS TNC to our local club newsletter, and was considering quoting it here, … Continue reading
Conky Pi.
This post is all about Linux. Not a smidge of ham radio included. During my Intense Reloading of Linux Period (IRLP), I sampled many different distros on several different machines, and one of them really caught my eye – CrunchBang. … Continue reading
Posted in Linux
Tagged Amateur radio, Conky, CrunchBang Linux, HamOS, LHSpodcast, Linux, Linux Mint, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian
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Above all else, do no harm.
Just ham radio in this post. 100% linux free this time. It is deep winter, and as always I am obsessed with building small radios in my warm, indoor workshop. This year there is a bit of a twist, as … Continue reading
Posted in Ham Radio
Tagged Amateur radio, building, ham radio, Homebrew, low power, QRP, QRP operation, transmitter
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What’s in your shoe box?
This blog post is about 50/50 ham radio/Linux. We’ll start with the ham radio stuff. One of the institutions of ham radio that I have reluctantly embraced in recent years is LOTW – the “Logbook of the World” – created and … Continue reading
Posted in Ham Radio, Linux
Tagged Amateur radio, American Radio Relay League, ham radio
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The serial port’s dark secret, and why you should always have a Plan B.
This post is certainly ham radio motivated, but it is 99% Linux. This event happened during my “Intense Re-installation of Linux Period” (not to be confused with any other type of IRLP) described in the previous post. I was working … Continue reading
A fist full of distros…
Spoiler alert: I don’t think this is the most compelling blog post you’ll ever read, but it’s part of the story and I think it needs to be here. Feel free to skim along and look at the links, and … Continue reading
Posted in Linux
Tagged CrunchBang Linux, Dell Optiplex, HamOS, JT65-HF, LHSpodcast, Linux, Linux distribution, Linux Lite, Linux Mint, LowSWR, Universal Serial Bus, USB flash drive, Windows
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