Utilities Are Good For You Every week, I participate in Winlink Wednesday. I do my check-ins with pat. Once a month, they as for a weather snapshot to go with the check-in. This isn't particula...

Learning New Things Over the past week or so, I have been spending a lot of time with rigctl. This started as an investigation of why I was having an issue with tying together a number of appli...

Fundamentals One of the things that occurred to me recently was that there are certain bits of knowlege that I've accumulated in a very haphazard and incomplete manner. Some of those things are...

This Again? I have twisted and worked my way around this problem for some time now and this probably isn't the last time that I will revisit this topic. However, my station is evolving and as a...

After my switch over to Ubuntu on my Surface Go 2, I went on the hunt for a way to continue my Winlink Wednesday check-ins and, more importantly, maintain my ability to use email from the field. ...

It took a minute, but it works. The last week or so has been a lot of fun diving into some software and tweaking things to get them where I need them to be. There are some really great free opt...

After all of the work in getting my computer setup for field work again, I was itching to get outside. Easter Sunday presented a very nice opportunity. The weather was stunning. It was in the mid...

"Broken Window" by akeg is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. A Little History A couple of years back, I decided that I wanted to spend more time on the air and less time playing around with IT non...

The Issue: In the world of ham radio, we have what I consider to be a bit of a problem. We have a very deep addiction to the Microsoft Windows ecosystem. Why is it a problem? Because Windows it...

This weekend wasn’t a great one for portable operations in NE Ohio. The weather was cold and rainy. As someone who spends a lot of time outside, I get that there is No Bad Weather, Only Bad Gear....

Desktop showing a Winlink success message after a VARA HF session. This weekend, I took some time to look at my setup for Winlink. This has been on my Radio List for a while now and I’m not s...

After my recent upgrade and subsequent callsign change, I found myself at loose ends over my TH-D74 and my IC-7100 when it came to D-Star. Sure, I updated the Zumspot to have my new call and I re...

Backpack, mAT-705, Lightsaver Max, IC-705, MS Surface Go 2, and my dad's water. On Memorial Day, my dad (AC8NT) and I headed out to Hampton Hills Metropark to see if we could get some conta...

With the usual tip of the cap to OH8STN I dug in on the v1.24 firmware of the IC-705 to rid my field setup of yet another cable. I think I'm about as close to field nirvana as I'm going to get. S...

Working closely with technology for an extended period of time has colored my views on computing. I've gone from full-on, build it all myself or die to using whatever works reliably and jettisoni...