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Between the 5th -12th May, there was a special ARISS/Russia SSTV expedition celebrating Victory Day on May 9, representing the victory of the Soviet Union over Germany in WWII. Conditions were challenging with the timing of the SSTV transmission intervals often resulting in being only able to receive one complete image in the 9-11min AOS ... Read more

I am not particularly fond of YouTube. From it’s humble beginning to it’s inevitable enshittification, It maintains a market monopoly of 98% for video sharing services1. Perhaps one goo…

I’m fed up with narrative that current “Artificial Intelligence” development is going to be all things to all people or a major AI breakthrough will be just around the corner, aga…

Blog - VK7BEN gets the MMSSTV software working under Linux using WINE and provides information on how you can do this yourself.

Over the past week, amateur radio operators have been enjoying receiving SSTV images from the International Space Station (ISS) celebrating April 12, the International Day of Human Space Flight. As yo...

VK7BEN Receives an Si4732 based mini SDR radio receiver in the mail and shares some thoughts about it.

Over this past week I have taken a leap of faith and moved my contact logging platform to Wavelog.  Ever since I first obtained my amateur radio license some 20 years ago, I have used Ham Radi…