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I had a weird thought while I was lying awake waiting to let the dog back in at about 03:00. That thought was an idea for a web widget that I couldn’t implement in Wordpress (well, I couldn’t) so I...

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...

Pat Is My Friend I've been over the topic of my move from Windows and Windows-only ham software in the past, so I won't rehash it. For minimal context I will say that there are no Microsoft pro...

Just last week I decided to join the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) because Jim N4JAW posted about it on his blog and it jives really well with my 2025 Goal to do more conversational CW. I got ...

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...

What and Why? Back in the 90s when I was at NYU, I got into using GNU/Linux systems. This was largely due to my digital signal theory professor who would carry his tower to class to demonstrate...

What Are We Doing? This blog exists for me to catalog sucesses and failures. The other thing it does is provide me with a place to put things so that I can get to them no matter where I am assu...

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...

"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...

Here We Go Again… One of the reasons that I rebuilt my Surface Go 2 recently was that Winlink was exhibiting some behaviors that were incompatible with sending and receiving email via VARA HF. ...

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...

A few months back, I hit a real snag in my Winlink setup. At some point, my Surface GO 2 - post Win11 update - created a situation with Winlink where I couldn't get the window to open reliably wh...

A couple of posts ago, I wrote about a script that I cobbled together to pull live activator data from the POTA website and push to a console and to the Mac notifications (assuming I hit a statio...

I found myself poking at the POTA APIs yesterday and decided that it'd be neat to bang out a quick script that might tell me from a CLI (or over my Mac notifications) whether or not a state that ...