marxy's musing on technology

A good net this morning from 10:30 on 7.177. It was proposed that we move to an hour earlier for improved propagation and with a few excepti...

It's amazing to me that a 500GB disk can get full but that happened to me on the Mac Mini yesterday. I have a lot of large developer too...

Was chatting with FreeDV regular Joe, VK3SRC, who's been pushing for an appliance like implementation of FreeDV RADE V1 for Raspberry Pi...

This week on ABC Nightlife we discussed the stepping aside of arguably the most successful CEO of any company in history with the move of Ap...

Good conditions for the Sunday morning 10:30am net but a smaller group probably because I've been away for the past two weeks. I had rep...

Today I had the pleasure of speaking at Redfest north of Brisbane. I spoke about how AI is being used in FreeDV and the exciting developmen...

There's been a bit of discussion at our radio club about the origin of the pair of FSK signals on the 40m band in recent months. Here...

As Artemis II makes its lap around the moon, astronauts on board keep in touch with their control room and their loved ones using a differen...

Recently I purchased a rather nice backpack which features an area that can hold velcro patches. I thought it would be nice to have one with...

Today at the Macedon Ranges Amateur Radio Club coffee morning, Eric, VK3EJD, brought along a new gadget that he hopes will remove noise he e...

I had a nice capture of a busy 40m band done using a HackRF Mayhem portapack and I wanted to play it back using a HackRF connected to a comp...

Conditions were so bad last week that I didn't bother writing up the net. Virtually no NVIS. This week was much better.  Stations on fre...

At this week's Radio Old Timers Club lunch in Melbourne I presented a talk outlining the good success I've had recently using Claud...

This week on ABC Radio's Nightlife program we discuss a recent post by Microsoft acknowledging a list of things that users complain abou...

This week on ABC Nightlife I spoke with Rod Quinn about Apple's new MacBook Neo, a sub-$1000 laptop that competes very well with Windows...

The Russian FSK transmissions were very strong this morning which ruled out using 7045 so I parked the net on 7177 and didn't expect too...

I've been working on my C port of the FreeDV app 's main functionality over recent weeks. It's really just a proof of concept bu...

This week on ABC Nightlife, I discuss the final removal of the truly evil UK Post Office Horizon software system that led to 13 suicides amo...

A very well attended Sunday FreeDV net on 7045 this morning from 10:30 eastern time. Stations on frequency were: VK2AWJ, VK2BX, VK2UMZ, VK3B...

While working on my C port of FreeDV RADE1 I wanted a reliable radio signal to test with. While I have off air recordings from the FreeDV ...