marxy's musing on technology

An excellent Sunday FreeDV net this morning with VK2, VK3 and VK5 stations all with good SNRs.  Some interest was expressed in the C port of...

One of the objectives of the work on RADEV2 is to replace the currently required Python runtime from the distributed FreeDV app. This would...

Many years ago I handed down a MacBook air to our youngest daughter. She used it until I handed down a later machine. Last week she returned...

Keen to do more field operating (and overnight camping). My rig of choice has been the Elecraft KX3 with it's excellent antenna tuner an...

This just in from an FT8 contact. Very retro. Thanks Jim.

Prolific ham radio hacker Jonathan P Dawson has just shared a remarkable project he calls Hamfist that is a morse decode device running in ...

Like many Apple users I'm keen to see how an upgraded Siri, rumoured to be coming this year, works. Right now Siri is way behind competi...