My year in ham radio per my blog!

https://www.kc8jc.com/2024/12/31/2024-the-year-in-radio-for-kc8jc/

#hamradio #blog

New blog post! I talk about listening to shortwave radio signals, my emotive reaction to them, and composing music with them. John Cage and hauntings both make an appearance.

Thanks to @tracy for feedback on a draft of the post!

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2024/12/radio-listening-musically/

#ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #MusicProduction #SDR #HamRadio

My QMX+ adventure thus far: pretty good!

https://www.kc8jc.com/2024/12/20/my-qmx-adventure/

#hamradio #blog #qmx

This is a highly customisable application that draws in all sorts of technical information that can help radio amateurs. Each pane can be changed to show relevant information.

What I really like is the frequency / band projections to any specific DX location. One really has to read the manual, though, to get full use out of the app. For non-hams though, it is still a very interesting app, being able to show time and distance to any location, as well as weather conditions at those locations.

The app runs on Linux (your desktop, a Raspberry Pi, etc) and is accessed via your web browser (any OS). If it does not start properly, especially on a desktop, just make sure nothing else has already got that network port in use, e.g. in my case SyncThing was hogging it, and I moved SyncThing to port 8083. You can also start HamClock with a ‘-w port’ to specify what web port it should use.

To exit the app, or look at diagnostics, etc, you can long-click for 3 seconds on the padlock symbol to get a pop-up actions menu.

See https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock
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Its been a while since the event, but I have been waiting for Ham Radio DX to upload the presentations :)

The Tasmanian Ham Radio Conference was held on the first weekend in November, with a heap of fantastic presentations.

Check out my post for my brief experience and links to some excellent presentations!

https://www.vk7ben.au/2024/11/03/2024-tassie-ham-radio-conference/

#hamradio #conference #amateurradio

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Here's how to do it.

Download this comic book and share it with your friends!
https://mightyohm.com/files/soldercomic/FullSolderComic_EN.pdf

#electronics #soldering #HamRadio