marxy's musing on technology

My primary antenna for the past few months has been an 80m dipole. It works pretty well and I hear lots of regular groups chatting but I rea...

I'm experimenting with antennas again and wanted a way to string up a dipole so that I could easily pull it down and make adjustments. M...

Just a brief post about some experimentation that has failed. I've been trying to build a loop antenna for 80m (3.5Mhz) to reduce local ...

iTunes started out as a fantastic tool for organising, searching, browsing and playing digital media files. The ability to browse by genre, ...

AppleScript studio is kind of the Visual Basic of MacOS X. (I'm sure some people will correct me firmly on that statement). In order t...

Alan VK2ZAY and I went bush this morning in search of a low noise HF location where we could play with antennas, balans, tuners and annoyin...

I've just spent a few very pleasant days south of Sydney at Gerroa. We hired a house on a hill looking out over the beach and I took a Y...

It's great to be back home after a few weeks away. Apart from cleaning up the pool (which had gone green), doing my washing, and trying ...

Ben put me on to a gem in the new iTunes U area. There are freely available university lectures available and I've been watching the w...

I saw Dom Bragge's posting about a 2m J-Pole antenna made out of 300 ohm TV ribbon and thought I'd give it a go. Although the desi...

To maximise my procrastination on the morse code front, I've spent the weekend improving the antenna situation here. There are two HF an...

Noticed a great feature of iTunes. Listening to a Podcast/Netcast on an iPod, didn't get all the way to the end, docked the iPod then th...

From time to time I record stories for radio and these need to be recorded in the field in "HiFi" quality. Currently I use a Maran...

I've been getting tons of spam that gets through our office's SpamAssasin filter. This was brought home to me big time after being ...