Here's another post that should've been made months ago, but better late than never. These photos were all taken the same day as the lunar eclipse shots in the previous post. I had just gotten a Panasonic DMW-MA1 adapter to run all of my older Olympus lenses on my Micro 4/3 mirrorless camera. The helicopter …
March 14, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse
I stayed up all night to get some shots of the moon during the total eclipse of March 14. Oddly enough, the first few shots were handheld with my trusty old Olympus 300mm telephoto lens on my newer Olympus mirrorless camera, while the last 2 were using the same setup while mounted to a tripod. …
Mistakes Were Made
Seems I had made a mistake a few months while back. I was attempting to push another ancient netbook back into service running Linux so that I could mess around with setting it up as a webSDR using my Nooelec Smart v4. While I was playing with some settings in the software, the dongle locked …
APRS RX-only I-Gate
What it does: This station listens for and decodes APRS packets from other stations and "gates" them to the internet. These other stations can be mobile (vehicle or pedestrian) or fixed stations (like digipeaters). When APRS is being used, any other APRS-capable radio can decode the packets being sent out (either natively on the radio, …
Radio Outing 2024
While out camping last week, I ended up messing around with the radios again ( as one does when they're by themselves in the woods). A week prior to leaving home, I set up some APRS objects indicating my operating positions, times, etc, so that people who may be interested might try to catch me …
G-Shock Rebuild
This is my watch. There are many like it, but this one is mine! This Casio G-Shock GW6900-1 was bought 8 years ago in August 2016 when I first moved to Vancouver, BC. It has seen much use (and abuse) during that time. The strap has finally decided to start giving up. It's still held …
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