Coming to the end of the weekend, and finally had a chance to sit down and write something.

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First the news Cyber-Tek Issue 33 1/3 is now out. In case you missed it, Cyber-Tek Issue #33 1/3 is not available for your downloading pleasure at…

Hello! I've been back at the university a week ago last Tuesday working on my BA. Only need 21 more credits, and I'd rather get it done sooner than later…

William Gibson said that in Burning Chrome, first published in the July 1982 issue of Omni. I miss the old print version to the point of keeping an eye open…

Let me tell you about my involvement in ham radio. I got my entry-level (Novice back then) ham ticket in the mid 1980s. Have been active on and off since…

Screenshot 2026-08-24 094238 Last nite when I was writing the previous article I had the WS1040 running a search on the CB band. I have the receiver attached…

We now have a domain: cybertekzine.space. It goes to our main landing page with all the links. Spent a little time this afternoon stream-side at one of my…

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PXL_20260704_230219007.PORTRAIT.ORIGINAL Here are some pieces of Galena and Pyrite. Both can be used as detectors in crystal radio sets. These pieces were…

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Last Halloween the day job had a costume contest.

There is a restaurant on Rt. 44 in Barkhamsted Connecticut called The Log House. Been there forever, or close to it. A former coworker took me there for the…

What's Up? Today is August 4, 2026 https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf Even Bradbury got it wrong. Techie Swap-Meet The Vintage Radio…

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The first three installments are available in Finding Interzone*. You can also buy a hardcopy off Lulu. I'm at the day job. My co-worker Tin (not his real…

https://wesleyanargus.com/2006/09/29/beyond-the-blue-lights-heavily-armed-hackers/ Yeah, they were talking about me. After the story came out I actually gave…

I have been writing in what I call the technological survival genre for almost 40 years, starting with my text Secret and Survival Radio, pu

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I've been doing this since 1990, writing a combination of hacking, survivalism, and technical anarchy. Most people don't get it. They didn't get it back then,…

It's 8PM Sunday in Connecticut. That's the day and time of the state's ARES net. Except for the Echolink nodes, it's all off the Internet. The repeaters are…

I think this was a rite of passage for teen survivalist types in the 1980s.

The HOPE Conference is in a month, and as is typical I’m still working on putting together my talk. I working in the lab yesterday, and decided it needed to…

It's Friday nite, a line of thunderstorms is coming in, so what else would I be doing while working on articles and my talk? Two receivers, picked up used at swapmeets for less than the cost of dinner...

It's been a few years. I usually miss it at the 11th hour. There's this small(ish) group of ham radio operators, ranging from Maine to New Jersey. Their piece…

The Fourth of July traditionally sees more emergency calls than normal due to the holiday’s combination of alcohol, fireworks, and stupid bad decisions. The…

I still war-drive; been doing it since the Linksys Channel 6 days. I even have an old WRT54GS I keep turned on. The only boxes attached to it are a web server…

I got the email today from the HOPE Committee confirming the day and time of my talk. I'll wait until they announce the specifics on their site…

No social media bullshit needed.

Should we talk about the weather? Should we talk about the government?

This Weekend Wire is in honor of the uniquely ‘Murican holiday involving alcohol, explosives, bad decisions, and a busy day for cops and EMS.

DIY or Die

May the candidate you picked be hated less by independents than the other party's ass clown.

Down-Grid Communications by Tom Redacted is a practical, polemical, and fiercely anti-fragile manual for maintaining communication, intelligence gathering, and group coordination when centralized infr...

The help I needed back then that you can get today.

A handheld police scanner and the morning commute.

I was lucky. You don’t have to be.

“Hack the Real World: Analog Skills for a Digital Collapse” “Before the Grid Goes Dark — Learn How It Actually Works” “Cyberpunk Was Never About Neon. It Was About Survival.” Cyber-Tek Zine #31 is a b...

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is cool, but useless.

The whole magilla.

But is it worth going?