If you've spent some time reading this blog, you will probably realize that I like techie things. In particular, I like cell phones and computers and radios. So it is really fun to me when these three separate hobbies start to converge. That's kind of where we are today with …
In my continued efforts to use digital modes with my tube radio, I've decided that FT-8 wasn't my cup of tea. I've done a bit of FT-8, and that was really neat to learn about and make work, but to be honest, it wasn't very fun to "do". With FT-8 …
All I really wanted was to use GridTracker. It's a program that maps your contacts live as you are using digital modes like FT8. The problem was, there wasn't an easy way to install it on Ubuntu. Well, easy is debatable, but there certainly was no deb package that you …
While I don't think this is my favorite way to pass the time, I've been enjoying trying out different digital modes, including FT8. I've posted about it before, when I was just listening in, now that I've got a general class license, I've been responding and making a few contacts …
Over the past couple months, I've been slowly working my way into the digital HAM radio scene. It's been a lot of fun, but a little slow going, as some things were not as obvious as they at first seemed. It's taken quite a while to learn the "ins and …
After making a full backup of my server, I decided it was time to make the plunge and update my home NextCloud server from version 20 to version 21. I like to wait a week or two (or sometimes longer) to make sure that other's don't start complaining about any …
As I am still dabbling with digital modes on HAM radio, I decided to try and step up my setup a bit, without costing too much money. Previously, when using my antenna that is a Broad Band Terminated Dipole which is wrapped around the roof line of my house, I …
Lately I've been getting away from VirtualBox and back to using Qemu. If you use the Aqemu gui to control qemu, it really is just as good, or in my opinion, better than VirtualBox. But, as that is not the topic of this post, I'll leave my preferences to the …
Previously I made a post about creating a shell script that turns your WordPress blog into a gemlog. In this short post, I just wanted to let any readers know that I've updated the scripts to have even more functions. There is now a script that turns your feed into …
Years ago I decided to help out the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge community by making some custom roms for them. With that, I also made some special data zips that allowed them to flash a rom for other carriers, and then fix their data by flashing these zip files.
Essentially …