confuzzled: fldigi seems to be interfering with itself …
Fldigi used to work fine, but recent updates may have caused me to drop off the face of the (radio) earth. What it seems to be doing — and I don’t find this at all plausible — is causing interference...
View ArticleOne year of amateur radio: what works
So I’ve just got my digital mode setup working again. It seems that somewhere, somehow, a driver for the SignaLink USB decided to stop working, and at best I got no signal on transmit and a very very...
View ArticleFIXME: not quite right morse tree
It’s not quite right yet, but I’ve never worked with Graphviz before this evening. Strongly influenced by the graphic on learnmorsecode.com. The wikipedia one is the wrong way round. Source: morse.gv
View ArticleOntario Hamfest yesterday
Glad I went to the Ontario Hamfest yesterday — I won the Superprize! It is quite super; it’s an ICOM V80 2m HT. Built like an absolute tank; it feels heavier than my Kenwood TH-D72. Thanks to...
View ArticleAnd this, kids, is why we rig our dipoles with black Dacron …
I guess the “UV Resistant!” nylon rope I used to rig my mini-G5RV wasn’t that resistant. Two summers of Scarborough sun did for it, turning the casing into friable dust. I knew that buying that big...
View ArticleVA3PID is back on the air!
Got my radio back on the air after six months off. I’d decommissioned the ancient ThinkPad that spoke to the radio, and hadn’t worked out what I’d needed to get it running with the MacBook. All it took...
View ArticleMorse Palindromes, or CQ Christian Bök
“The longest palindrome in Morse code is “intransigence””, and it was on … First off, here’s the Morse code for the word intransigence: ·· –· – ·–· ·– –· ··· ·· ––· · –· –·–· · i n t r a n s i g e n c...
View ArticleDid it just get a little more nerdy in here?
Aw yiss! After more than two years of trying, I finally got a confirmed contact in North Dakota last night. That means I’ve now worked all of the US states using the PSK digital mode. Yay me! I’d...
View ArticleMy first FreeDV QSO
FreeDV is a fully open digital voice protocol; unlike DMR, D-STAR and the rest, there are no patents tying it down. It uses very little bandwidth for voice. I just had my first QSO (thanks K5WH in...
View ArticleICQuestionBank2csv
ICQuestionBank2csv: A tool to extract both the Basic and Advanced Amateur Radio Examination guides from Industry Canada’s rather annoying two-column PDFs. Written for IC’s 2014-02 database updates....
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