2023
In Search of Internet Privacy
New High Performance SDR
Going Home
First Charge
Rivian Delivery
Rivian First Mile Experience
Solar Cycle 25
2022
Downunder Folded Dipole
Labelling Your Ferrites
A Leap Forward
Field Day, QRP, and Antenna Pruning
I had a great, but minimalist Field Day this year, where I finally got to transmit on my Icom IC-705, operated on 6 meters for the first time, and experienced QRP operation for the first time.
DIY Common Mode Choke
The 17M UFO
The (RFI) Plot Thickens
Effect of Common Mode Chokes
A Linear Power Supply Didn’t Help Much
LED Dial Lights for Drake TR-7
A Tale of Two Power Supplies
Tracking the Elusive SMPS
Magic Signal to Noise (SNR)
HFDL on KiwiSDR
The Chip Shortage Bites
SDR Without Windows?
Conflicting Advice Regarding Bonding and Grounding
New Beverage Antenna Finally Under Construction
Password-less SSH with a Certificate Authority and OpenSSH
Kiwi is Back
Blog Fatigue
2021
Another New Blog?
Here we are in another new year with not enough blogging going on, and I am somewhat dismayed to find that the platform that this blog is based on (Jekyll) is now apparently in trouble. The primary developer and maintainer passed away and people are now wondering how active the ecosystem will remain going forward.
Another Sad Story of Common Mode
What, Me Worry?
Whither SDR?
A Swing and a Miss
2019
An American Philosopher
The Expanse
Back to Blogging
After a number of years away, I finally got around to setting up a blog again. I’ve been motivated to do this for a number of reasons:
