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
Morse Code, aka CW in the ham world, was not a requirement when I was licensed. Some would say I’m a no code extra. Well not any more… I’ve been slowly working on my CW and although I have a poor fist I’ve gotten through all ten digits and all 26 characters. I’m not proficient … Read more
