marxy's musing on technology

The theme of today's ARNSW Home Brew group meeting was "making frequency" and we had a diverse range of approaches on show. ...

Do you remember the tradition of meeting up with friends or family, a few weeks after they'd returned from an overseas trip, to view a (...

We're coming to the end of a four week European vacation. Most of our accommodation was booked through Airbnb and I thought I'd sha...

While on tour in Europe I do miss my radio shack. Searching around I stumbled upon this interesting SDR in a box with knobs coming soon from...

I love how in Bologna in particular there are many many cyclists of all ages. The other thing that I like is that there are some very small ...

I'm not really a "foodie" but we spent a pleasant day looking at three foods made in mostly traditional ways here in Bologna. ...

The reason we chose to come to Bologna is to take a tour of the museum at the house where radio pioneer, Guglielmo Marconi spent his childho...

Normally I like to look at shoes and handbags but my wife insisted on some science content for our current tour. Galileo Galilei lived unt...

Twenty five years ago, Phillipa and I travelled to Europe together. We booked through a travel agent who suggested accommodation that met ...

Over the past few weekends I've been building VK3YE's " Knobless wonder " a fixed frequency SSB transceiver for 40m. It...

It's been a great pleasure working with the ABC TV rage team, a wonderful graphic designer and producers to do an update of the popul...

Many of us work inside fire walled networks where virtually all ports are blocked and web traffic goes through an annoying proxy server. A V...

Please be advised of the second Radio Australia HF test using the digital text modes MFSK and FLARQ.  Freeware fldigi will handle these a...