Ever on the hunt for amateur radio gear, I happened upon this little gem a few months back in a Tube of You video on search and rescue gear. Look at that super-good censoring job I did! The chap in the video demonstrating the antenna mentioned that he had picked the antenna up on that …
Ottawa Doors Open 2025
Each year, Ottawa (and many other cities) host an event called Doors Open. It's usually a day or two of letting the public tour places they wouldn't get access to on a normal basis. Think of it as a way to keep the amount of urban explorers out there sated/dissuaded (depending on the person). Either …
Grey Days
After many years of being out of the media saddle, I'm finally getting right back into it! Grey Days is a short concept video that I had been thinking about for some time. With having been laid off recently (yep, that happened), I've been able to get back in touch with my creative side. Without …
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 …
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