marxy's musing on technology

A bloke with too many hobbies.

Sunday, May 17, 2026

The generation gap in media consumption

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A fascinating analysis by leading thinker Tony Stevenson " Who Told You That Was True? How Four Generations Consume Information Differe...

Sunday FreeDV net - guilty of audio distortion

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A good net here in south eastern Australia this morning from 09:30 eastern time on 7.177Mhz. Most people are running version 2.3. The audio ...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Inverted L for 160m

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At the recent deceased estate sale of Graeme VK3NE's gear I purchased a 160m AM transmitter. Crystal locked to 1832kHz. Turns out it...

FreeDV Sunday net - many on 2.3 some issues

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A good net this morning after yesterday's release of version 2.3 of the FreeDV app. Two reports of Windows users having audio trouble wi...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

FreeDV 2.3.0 released! - an important step forward

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The FreeDV project has just released version 2.3 of the FreeDV GUI app for Linux, macOS and Windows. There's also support for running i...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2026

Tech talk on ABC Radio - Can police be tracked by the Bluetooth in their tasers?

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This week on the ABC Nightlife program we discuss the rather extreme claim on Four Corners this week that police can be "tracked" ...
Sunday, May 03, 2026

FreeDV Sunday net - now with Android participant

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We started an hour earlier, at 9:30am eastern time, but still had a good roll up. This morning was notable in that there were several statio...
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Saturday, May 02, 2026

Nanoleaf Matter and Thread finally working

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As an early adopter of home automation I've suffered over the years from a collection of incompatible devices each requiring a proprieta...
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Coding with an Agent - productive but exhausting

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Claude Code has been my helper for a few months now. Others have observed that while it can help a non-programmer to create software it can ...
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Sunday, April 26, 2026

FreeDV Sunday net - moving to an hour earlier

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A good net this morning from 10:30 on 7.177. It was proposed that we move to an hour earlier for improved propagation and with a few excepti...
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