marxy's musing on technology

I visited the fabulous Kurrajong Radio Museum once in the past with my partner in tow and while she found it "mildly amusing" I t...

Since eliminating the annoying interference I was suffering, I've returned to the pleasure of tuning around on HF. A while back I bought...

In recent weeks my reception of HF radio, particularly on 40m (7MHz band), has been marred by nasty broad band interference. I had thought i...

A rare pleasure today to meet up with home brew hero Peter, VK3YE, who was visiting Sydney. Stephen, VK2BLQ and I caught up for a chat and...

Last weekend I was invited to film a friend's property from my drone. I'm a pretty poor flyer but the result is nice. It was a fabul...

Pip and I took advantage of a "Spring Escape" in a "Heritage room" at the Hydro Majestic in Sydney's Blue Mountains...

I learned of the Minimalist Double Sideband Transceiver (MDT) kit from the video review by VK3YE and thought it might be a fun project. ...

John, VK2ASU, showed a little data link he'd built at a recent home brew group meeting at Dural and I've started experimenting. He...

Recently I had a very pleasant train trip to Bowral to assist and old friend, and soon to be amateur radio operator, William. I was able t...

Another interesting meeting today with lots of "show and tell" and a talk on filters. Here's some photos. Bob had a high qua...

There's a very low cost CW transceiver for 40m available out of China on ebay dubbed "frog sounds". For just $19 including ...

Google has done such a great job with Google photos that it puts Apple's equivalent to shame. Apple has had face identification for som...

Marc Fennell does everything on this show, producer, presenter, interviewer, editor, music mixer and talent wrangler. All credit to the new ...

Listening to the marvellous Soldersmoke podcast I learned of these serial interface boards for driving an LCD display using just two pins o...

Very excited this week when the SmartMic 1000 arrived. This is a FreeDV digital voice codec in a very nice box. It's designed so you ca...

It's tough putting up a decent antenna for 80m. The sheer length involved excludes many amateurs without large blocks of land. My shack ...