Sunday, November 02, 2025

How to clean creosote stains from a wood heater's glass

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I've been purchasing expensive specialist glass cleaners for wood heaters for substantial money. This one works the best but is almost A...

FreeDV Australian net - good conditions, 20 stations

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A big rollup this morning. 20 stations at least tuned in, not all could transmit. Several stations could be heard transmitting analog audio ...
Saturday, November 01, 2025

Puffing Billy steam train trip with grandson

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Today was a real treat. I accomponied my daughter and my grandson on a ride on an antique narrow guage steam train in Melbourne, Australia, ...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

New 3D printer: Bambu Labs A1 mini

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For some years I've occasionally used a Creality Ender 3 printer. Worked fine and good value but when I dug it out recently during a vis...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

FreeDV net - excellent conditions

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Ionospheric conditions were much better for local contacts this morning and we had 14 stations at least on frequency. Good reports including...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Intel iMac Late 2014 Ubuntu notes

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We had an old but beautiful Intel iMac from 2014. It could not be upgraded beyond macOS Big Sur 11.7.10. I used the OpenCore Legacy Patcher ...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Kanga pocket transmatch - goes up to 12

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To go with my fantastic QMX portable radio (now with SSB) I wanted a compact antenna tuner and so ordered the Kanga pocket transmatch . It...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Tech Talk on ABC Radio - Internet outage due to Amazon

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Flickr, snapchat, PlayStation and Amazon were among the businesses that suffered an outage due to a failure at Amazon Web Services in the US...