Friday, October 23, 2026

Icom-Control - a new macOS app to control some Icom radios over a network

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On a bit of a roll here with SDR style user interfaces. I've been working on macOS 27 software to connect to some Icom radios.  So far o...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Joined our club net using a Hermes Lite 2

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My local club, the Macedon Ranges Amateur Radio Club ( MRARC ), has a weekly net on 80m and this week I joined using a Hermes Lite 2 driven ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Tech Talk on ABC - Can Microsoft turn this ship around?

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Apple gave Windows a run for its money when it switched its Macs from Intel processors to its own Apple Silicon chips, delivering big gains ...
Monday, October 19, 2026

Bargain 5000mAh 21700 Li-ion battery

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Heath, VK3TWO, spoke about Meshcore at the latest Macedon Ranges Amateur Radio club  meeting and mentioned a low cost way to get extra batte...
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HermesNeo - macOS software for Hermes Lite 2

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I've had a Hermes Lite 2 on the bench for some time but couldn't find SDR software that I liked. This is very early software so it...
Sunday, October 18, 2026

HackRF Transfer GUI for macOS

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hackrf_transfer is a command line tool for getting a HackRF to capture and replay IQ files. I often use this for testing software such as Fr...
Saturday, October 17, 2026

JTTY Traffic increasing

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I've been monitoring JTTY traffic on 40m. (As an aside, 7090 USB is a poor choice of frequency here in Australia as there's a lot of...
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Scoring Apple's Knowledge Navigator against Siri and ChatGPT

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Earlier this year I posed the question Apple Knowledge Navigator - are we there yet? I was very pleased to see that SmartFriend™ Tony has d...