I’ve been away from the blog for some time now. Was doing the side-gig startup thing for a while. That didn’t work out and ended up getting a little burned out for a while, so I was more focused on hiking since then. Now, I’m ready for another project. Don’t care to do anything that… Read More »
I’ve had some bad luck with computer hard drives over the last year. First, the hard drive in my home server failed. Then the hard drive on my laptop failed several months later. The backups for each had stopped working a while ago. I was able to recover some files using ddrescue. This is actually… Read More »
Seen a few articles about people controlling their radios remotely lately and thought what most others were doing was a bit too complicated. It could be done a lot easier, at least in my opinion of what’s easier. First, rig control. Linux has the hamlib libraries that can control many different radios. I had built… Read More »
When Carrie and I got married, she gave me a very nice watch as a wedding present. It’s a kinetic watch (i.e. it is wound up by movement). I haven’t used it since the band broke a long time ago. Finally got the band fixed, but since it hasn’t been used, it’s not wound up… Read More »
Haven’t had much time for any projects over the last year or so. Having a new baby in the house tends to do that. Now that she is a little older and on a good schedule, I might be able to get a little time to work on some projects. My wife drives a 2005… Read More »
In my last posting, I turned a Raspberry Pi into a media center PC. One of the things I left undone before declaring the project a success was to set up some kind of hardware based remote control. I was only able to control the PC using the web interface or the XBMC app on… Read More »
For a while now, I’ve been using DLNA to push video to my TV from my computer. The biggest problem I’ve had with that is that is my Sony TV is very picky about the video format. I’ve been stuck experimenting with options to pass to ffmpeg to convert the video from whatever format the… Read More »
Today was RACES Exercise with Simulated Traffic 13-11. In the exercise, we were supposed to call up a net, contact as many other stations as possible using both voice and digital modes (QSO party style), and send a list of all of our contacts back to net control via voice or digital. In East Contra… Read More »
I finally started a blog. I’m going to chronicle my exploration of amateur (ham) radio and electronics. So, let’s get to the first post. For the first post, I decided to go after something simple. My daughter has an Elmo guitar, the volume of which is, shall we say, earsplitting. I’ve been threatening to wire… Read More »