Tag Archives: ham radio

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

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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

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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

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