For the first pieces of hardware in my shack (aka corner of the unfinished basement), I followed the advice Dave Casler KE0OG provides in his reference station write up: Main HF rig – ICOM 7300 Power supply – Samlex SEC-1235M…
Logger32 modestly describes itself as “a 32-bit Amateur Radio logging program.” In reality, this incredibly extensive, flexible, and – consequently – daunting piece of Windows freeware is at the center of operations for many advanced hams. (Think of it as…
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…
As I’ve worked satellites over the holiday break I’ve been confused a couple of times as a pass has happened and there’s been no audible traffic at all. At first, I worried I had messed up my antenna somehow. It…
All told, I managed to work six ISS passes during the event and grab four images (some of them were repeats). Here are the best versions of each: It still blows my mind that you can build an antenna…
