QCX-mini? Didn't You Just Finish A QMX+? Sometimes, things get shuffled around and end up on the back burner for a really, really long time. Embarassingly long. Back in January of 2022, I was...

This Is The Hard Part Some time ago, I wrote a post about the mechanics of getting your license. I got a little ping from a fellow operator mentioning that it was probably time to talk a little...

Why? If there is one good reason to put down some goals for the coming arbitrary time period, it's to give a list of things one might do when one has time for the hobby but isn't really inspire...

First, Goals for 2024 First, a review of the goals I set for 2024 and how I did. Kilo at US-1999 - This goal was completed in April of 2024. That felt pretty good and it went quickly. Given t...

Brought To You By… This post is about building a QRP Labs QMX+ transceiver. No, Hans G0UPL didn't sponsor this. Someone else made it possible. That someone else is Brandon Sanderson aka BrandoS...

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...

Circumstances It's mid-November and that happens to coincide with my birthday. In my semi-retired state, I have most days to myself after the kids are off to school. Sure, I have chores to do a...

Fundamentals As I get more and more into this hobby, I begin to despair the information available on the internet. I was having an exchange with a fellow ham that basically came to the sad fact...

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...