Setting Up AetherSDR and WSJT-X with TCI
It’s an interesting time to be a Flex radio owner. I have a Flex 6400 in the shack and absolutely LOVE it. (Moving from my ICOM 7300 to the Flex got me out of COM port purgatory and made remote…
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Using the AI Tool “RM Noise” with the Flex 6400
As I was preparing to teach my winter 2024 course, IPT515 Artificial Intelligence for Instructional Designers (at Brigham Young University), I started thinking, “surely by now someone is applying AI to amateur radio.” It didn’t take a lot of Googling…
Synchronizing Logs Between WSJT-X and JTDX
After conversations with friends in the WVDXA, I’ve begun using JTDX for working DX on FT8. Upon launching JTDX, however, I was immediately annoyed at the fact that it knew nothing about the thousands of QSOs I had already made…
How I Passed the Amateur Extra Exam – And How You Can, Too
Once I earned my General license in January of 2021, I didn’t imagine I would ever go for an Extra license. I heard several people say that the Amateur Extra exam was significantly more difficult than the General exam. And…
Setting Up My First Shack, Part 1 – The Software
Much of what happens with amateur radio today involves computers. I haven’t been a Windows user in many, many years, but many of the core programs used by hams are freeware written for Windows. They even have that late 1990s…
