Recent and not-so-recent revelations in the online world show lots of breaches in security in corporate and government spaces. It’s easy to figure out if you’ve been pwned at haveibeenpwned.com. What’s hard is securing stuff that’s been leaked. Take, for instance, LastPass., I was an all-in user of LastPass. Then hame their breaches… plural. I … Read more
I’m going to attempt to work my 857D into my truck. I last had it in a Ford Escape that I traded for a Jeep. I’ve owned 2 vehicles since then over 11 years. I have located everything that goes with it and also bought an MFJ-1927Y screwdriver controller for it to control the Lil’ … Read more
In the spirit of experimentation, I wanted to find out exactly how much power my QRP radios consume. I’ve had a Yaesu FT-818ND for several years now. It’s built like a tank but fragile at the same time. I bought a set of rails for it a while back to protect the knobs and the … Read more
I recently built a stratum 1 time server for my network. I used this blog post as a recipe: https://blog.networkprofile.org/gps-backed-local-ntp-server/ It’s capable of working stand-alone without a network connection, some would say as an orphan, but having the GPS PPS signal makes it highly accurate within 200 or so nanoseconds and I’ve seen better on … Read more
