marxy's musing on technology

A pleasure again to be a guest on ABC Sydney breakfast with Robbie Buck and Wendy Harmer. I was on to talk about the Apple World Wide Develo...

We are settling in to our new home in Thornbury, Victoria. We're out of the rental place in Alphington and happily new tenants were foun...

I haven't done a Download This Show since social isolation and also moving to Melbourne so it was fun to see how the technology has cha...

Facebook's targeted advertising knows me too well and lately it's been repeatedly showing me ads for a pair of transceivers priced...

I'm now 709km away from my ham radio buddies in Sydney. Propagation is not great and my antenna, for the next few weeks, is a very poor ...

Moving back to Melbourne after 30 years in Sydney means that I was keen to make contact with ham radio people here much as the group from th...

Forgive me if this is old news but on Windows I've long used the excellent and free VB-Cable from VB-Audio Software for piping audio ...

The end-fed antenna is working pretty well on 40m and I'd love to have a contact with Sydney friends. John, VK2ASU, kindly agreed to r...