marxy's musing on technology

A recent article by Dr Stanley Shanapinda published on The Conversation warned against purchasing iPhone 12 phones because they don't i...

I've just completed a build of a kit I haven't seen before. The Micro Mountaineer is a crystal locked 40m CW transceiver that is a s...

It was my pleasure to participate in the ABC's Download this Show again this week. On the radio show we discuss a range of topics but th...

Like many home brewers, I've been patiently waiting for the QSX from QRP-Lab. I hope it gets finished as it sounds fantastic and the QC...

I've just heard that a friend I met through the wonderful Malcolm Sinclair , Dave Russel, VK2DKE has died. Here he is in his wonderful u...

There was a time when I bought a lot of CDs. Years ago I ripped them to AAC files to save space but now disks are cheap and I've decided...

I'm getting tired of seeing these scam ads that, if you click through them, take you to fake news pages that look like ABC news reportin...

Although I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, the COVID lockdown has ironically led to me staying in touch with my Sydney friends more than I w...

 The terrible RF interference I see here right across HF looks like this: But for three weekends in a row it goes off at 2:35pm local time o...

There is an update to the WSPR Watch app in the iOS App Store. The recently added signal to noise graph has changed to a line chart and if y...

A few days ago we noticed that the internet was very slow. Pinging Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 showed about 20% ping loss. I logged in to the T...

When I bought this Mac mini (2018) it was used with a permanent ethernet connection and all was well. It's only now that we're in a ...