Rich in knowledge, poor in cash.
Well, not *quite* yet. A friend on IRC has VERY generously ordered a Peaberry SDR kit to be shipped to me. It’s a relatively inexpensive, low-power HF band transceiver (1W transmit power). It does come as a kit, with primarily…
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No resolutions, just glad we made it without blowing ourselves up. As for things to come in the next year: More cider! Maybe beer! Finally finishing the packet radio interface! Acquiring HF gear! (looking at the peaberry) That’s probably most…
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And the season is upon us. Random thoughts and happenings for the past month or so to follow. I did eventually upgrade to Win8, initially on the laptop, but then on the new desktop. It’s all tiny and cute and…
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Things have been a little quiet lately, Texas Renaissance Festival opening was this past weekend, my grandmother passed away last week and her funeral was Tuesday, and haven’t really had time to work on stuff. Added another project I want…
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And so begins the work on my TNC interface. I’m starting with desoldering a couple of transformers I need from some old dialup modems we had in the garage. See? Nothin’ to it. I would have had a fabulous timelapse…
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This webspace is going to primarily be a host for publishing various projects I’m working on. First up will likely be a simple soundcard-based TNC interface for amateur packet radio. Might be picture-oriented, might be video, who knows? My soldering…
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Alrighty, got a little something up on the domain here. ‘Tis a beginning, more will change and appear as I do stuff. Got the ol’ solar-terrestrial data widget there on the side to start, I’ll be modding the heck out…
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