marxy's musing on technology

While there is some excellent ham radio software for the Mac such as CocoaModem , Aether , EchoMac , and DSP Radio , there's a lot of go...

Was up early tracking the MacWorld keynote and noticed that the Sydney Morning Herald had a story about Steve Jobs mystery loss of weight t...

I've been working on a bitx20 for too many months and have had a bit of a frustrating time getting it going. At last it's in use. A...

I responded a CQ call on 14.160MHz today and ended up having an entertaining conversation with Peter, VK3EPW. He's 1,000Km away, was run...

In the 1980s Sony owned the portable music player market with their Walkman range of cassette players. The company had become a major intern...

Recent experiments with simple receive loop antennas led me to take another look at a Sony loop I bought some years back when visiting Akiha...

Rob, VK2ZNZ called today on 80m and urged me to drop in to see his new equipment. It seems that Resurrection Radio in Melbourne has been cl...