Here is how I have re-arrange my amateur radio station W5EHS. I wanted more room for the new screen as I needed the screen to be low enough I didn’t have to bend my neck too much to see it. I did have it on top of the computer but it was far too high. I just finished a contact on 7.035 MHz AKA the 40 meter band. I used a digital mode called PSK-31...
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Sick Cow
This is for you Linux users… The Spherical Cow, AKA Fedora 18 wasn’t running too good today. It became constipated trying to do a normal software update from the X-Window GUI. It said there were 96 updates waiting and then would just hang. I tried several remedies and reboots but the cure was at the command line. It’s nice to not forget your “roots” so to speak. (That’s a deliberate pun…) I opened a terminal...
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I started a new blog yesterday. HA! Like I don’t have enough… Actually it is a totally new blog using blogging software I have only experimented with in the past. The blog is contained within The Hobbyist Workshop website and is not stand alone like all my others. So that makes it very specific to the website that contains it. Just what I wanted, The new blog operates very differently from this WordPress based system...
Continue reading...Behind Schedule
Because of my real work, I always feel I am behind schedule on my work shop projects. Nothing in the work shop (to do) is on a critical path. So my anxiety is self inflicted and totally controlled, but I still feel it. My plans have always been to build a workshop that I can enjoy while I am in retirement. Retirement is a time when I assumed it would be harder to make large...
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