The Fediverse is quite nice! For my main account, I’ve been relying on the fantasticly run chaos.social instance. I’ve played with running gotosocial and Mastodon instances in the past, but did not ru...

I got free time to spend with HAM gear in the middle of Germany, on a house with 3 floors and a garden behind the house. After doing some connections with FT8, a digital mode, I started to wonder: whi...

POTA is ‘Parks On The Air’. You go to a park, deploy antenna and radio transceiver, and to ‘activate the park’ you have then exchanges with at least 10 folks over the air.\nSOTA is ‘Summits On The Air...

In July, I had my first POTA activation. POTA is ‘Parks On The Air’, an activity in the field of HAM radio. There are 2 roles:\nThe Activator, someone going into a park, setting up radio equipment and...

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I recently got myself an Apple MacBook Air M1, these are down to 5万円/350$ here in Japan. The CPU efficient, the screen is good - I plan to use the device as portable desktop with Fedora Asahi Remix. A...

Remembering Blinry’s Fifty Things you can do with SDR, I thought that something like that for HAM Radio should exist - so here is my attempt of a collection. HAM Radio is a huge field, and most radio ...

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52 weeks, 52 challenges. The #hamchallenge is meant to inspire you to extend your horizon in amateur radio by weekly challenges that touch all aspects of ham radio.

I got this Power-Z measurement device the other day.. what is it, and how does it fare against the other measure methods? My last comparison was in 2022.\nThe contenders I have some sources for measur...

At the middle of last year, I got all the hardware together to do radio transmissions here from my room in the West of Tokyo. It just did not work, and took half a year to debug. This here is a small ...

Wir geben Einblicke in zwei intensive Wochen Planung, Koordination und Aufbau, den Betrieb einer (improvisierten) Bodenstation, sprechen ...

TL’DNR: My steps towards emulating an Amiga 1000 keyboard, using the GPIO (input/output) pins of a Raspberry Pi, and implementing parts of the keyboard protocol in Python.\nBackground Around 1997 I go...

Since spring of this year I’m learning to pick up morse code, so to hear sequences of dits and dahs/long and short sounds, and interpret the characters they represent.\nThat’s progressing.. but it’s j...

Terms Details on some terms I will use:\nLoRa (“Long Range”) is a technology for transmitting data via radio signals. It’s designed for much longer distances than Wifi: the record for LoRa is around 3...