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...

My first antenna in the rental townhouse was a dipole for 20m which has been working pretty well. The challenge here is that the windows sea...

We've now moved in to a townhouse in Alphington which is north east of Melbourne. It's much smaller than our home in Sydney and ev...

We've lived in Killarney Heights for about 25 years (with a few gaps including two years in Hong Kong). It's a quiet suburb nort...

Since the COVID-19 isolation came in to effect, we've been having meetings of the ARNSW Radio Experimenters (Home Brew) group via a Sk...

Ross, VK1UN and EX0AA, is a frequent traveller and likes to get on air with WSPR under challenging conditions including using stealthy en...

With our normal Dural meeting off this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we moved online and had a group meeting using Skype. It went pret...

Today I heard from Mark Blackmore and Peter O'Connell that physical meetings at Dural NSW of the Amateur Radio NSW Home Brew Group a...

This weekend there is a special event under the callsign VI3RA where amateurs are able to use the amazing antenna array that used to be us...