Another 10 mW WSPR Beacon I enjoy writing up my projects, but it’s much better to get feedback to see that someone was actually able to take my writing and successfully duplicate my project. Via the Etherkit Twitter account, I received this from Tom Hall, AK2B regarding my last posted project: @etherkit 10mw WSPR station… Read More Wideband Transmission #8
Thanks to the efforts of Etienne Scott, K7ATN, we who live in the Pacific Northwest have a couple of nice SOTA summit-to-summit activity days each year. One that happens in early spring and if I remember correctly the other which occurs later in the summer. I participated in the spring S2S Party two years ago, but… Read More SOTA After Action Report – Sheridan Peak
If you wouldn’t mind, I would like to draw your attention to my latest post on the Etherkit App Notes blog. In it, I detail how to create a 10 milliwatt WSPR beacon using nothing more than the Etherkit Si5351A Breakout Board, an Internet-connected PC, and a low-pass filter. A simple project, but one that… Read More 200,000 Miles Per Watt
I’m pleased to announce an upgrade to the Etherkit Si5351A Breakout Board with TCXO reference oscillator. In boards manufactured previous to today (and the ones kitted in the initial crowdfunded initiative), the TCXO used was a Fox FOX924B-25.000. It worked well and did the job it was supposed to, but has one flaw in certain situations. The… Read More Si5351A Breakout Board TCXO Upgrade
More Musings about Etherkit’s Future As I mentioned in my previous post, we are still undergoing a stage of tremendous upheaval in our household. I won’t really know how our new life will shake out quite yet, but I am certain that my time will be more restricted. I think I’ll have a good grasp… Read More Wideband Transmission #7
This is not going to be a particularly pleasant post to compose, but I feel that I owe it to those of you who I interact with regularly to give you some kind of status update. Pardon the light use of uncouth colloquialisms. As of right now, I am not able to publicly be specific about… Read More Homefront
I know this departs from the usual fare, and I have no idea if this will interest any of my readers, but I figure at the very least it will be a good reference for me in the future. I’m living the low carbohydrate lifestyle and while I get along pretty well without having to… Read More Low Carb Cream Cheese Pancakes
As I mentioned toward the end of my post on the Python/GTK+ implementation of the Lorenz attractor, I ultimately wanted to add some of the other strange attractors to my program in order to make it a bit more interesting. So I did just that. It also gave me a good excuse to learn a… Read More More Strange Attractors
It’s hard for me to believe, but it has been more than 30 years since the release of Blue Monday by New Order. I always loved that song as a kid, and it still holds up quite well in my opinion. (In related news, holy crap, I’m getting old). Here, from the mysterious Orkestra Obsolete,… Read More New Monday
Back in the day, when I was a budding nerd in the late 80s/early 90s, I spent a lot of my free time down at the local public library looking for any books I could find regarding certain topics which captured my interest: programming, astronomy, electronics, radio, mathematics (especially the recreational mathematics books), and other… Read More Lorenz Attractor in Python