marxy's musing on technology

I'm getting tired of seeing these scam ads that, if you click through them, take you to fake news pages that look like ABC news reportin...

Although I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, the COVID lockdown has ironically led to me staying in touch with my Sydney friends more than I w...

 The terrible RF interference I see here right across HF looks like this: But for three weekends in a row it goes off at 2:35pm local time o...

There is an update to the WSPR Watch app in the iOS App Store. The recently added signal to noise graph has changed to a line chart and if y...

A few days ago we noticed that the internet was very slow. Pinging Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 showed about 20% ping loss. I logged in to the T...

When I bought this Mac mini (2018) it was used with a permanent ethernet connection and all was well. It's only now that we're in a ...

This week, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the war in the Pacific, we talked about some of the technologies that were developed in ...

Last Friday I watched an excellent presentation given at the EMDRC by old friend Chris Long, VK3AML. You can see it here: EasyPal is softw...

Update: Now approved in Australia . Recently I’ve experienced some unusual heart rhythms and was referred to a cardiologist by my GP. The ra...

From time to time I see terrible interference right across HF and even up to VHF here. Sometimes it comes on for under ten minutes and whil...