marxy's musing on technology

A beautiful day to be out doors in Sydney's Dural on Sunday. The theme was 40m antennas and there was lots of great talk, show and pract...

Downloadthisshow , a weekly panel and interview show by Marc Fennel, now has more than 300,000 subscribers on SoundCloud . Add that to subsc...

Saturday was open day at the state of the art Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Fire Control Centre used by the Rural Fire Service to support local volunt...

Retina MacBook Pro screens are so sharp it's crazy not to use them as the primary screen when working at a desk. Presumably Apple wi...

After only a few days, my apps are starting to show the amazing uptake of iOS 7. Here's my proportions in WSPR Watch from yesterday. ...

Even though I generally have no trouble picking up a new Apple product soon after launch, I decided to get up early and queue outside the Sy...

Just arrived in the shack is a very compact 4.5W all band SSB HF transceiver of Chinese origin. With a price of US$350 + shipping and an all...

The Raspberry Pi has turned in to a very flexible platform for dedicated computing tasks. I run one as an OpenVPN server, in the office we ...

Messing around with a Raspberry Pi recently used as a Wifi hotspot, led me to an idea for a box installed on the projector in a meeting roo...

Sometimes it's useful to monitor traffic between a client and the server for debugging or to figure out how something works. In the past...

I'm excited to report that my build of Peter, VK3YE's , simple fixed frequency " Knobless Wonder " transceiver is complete...

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. ...