The backstory on the Citroen CX 2400 Prestige Cmatic is fairly interesting. Of the CX models the Prestige is basically a factory standard extended length model, intended for executive and governm...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/25/a-bit-about-my-citroen-cx-2400-prestige-cmatic/
Another post in the Thinking Ahead series started with https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/im-a-ham-or-am-i/… Consider avoiding consultative resources that are cliquey or dominated by aggress...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/thinking-ahead-resources-of-various-sorts/
My latest Citroen CX arrived today (18 April 2024) transported by the ever friendly Applewood Motor Transport from Baltimore. The car fortunately was disembarked and transported to climate contro...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/latest-citroen-cx-arrived/
Purchased a refurbished 60ft (18m) four wheel drive diesel boom lift with the idea of completing a series of projects at the home QTH, transporting it to the Island QTH to complete similar projec...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/giving-the-station-an-uplift/
Beginning of April 2024 Wisconsin was hit by a late in season Winter Storm. Wet Heavy snow with lots of wind. At the home QTH power was out briefly, but the new Kohler Genset kicked in, and we ...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/when-the-power-goes-out-short-outage-realities/
HTML emails can be a serious security risk. Simple version of the risk is that using the style-setting CSS feature of HTML email, completely different content can be substituted in various email ...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/12/kobold-letters-html-transformer-emails/
It seems that Sexual Awareness concerns haven’t left ham radio alone. It always has been part of the hobby, but at best a sidebar. Then over the last couple years an agenda developed – in par...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/is-ham-radio-sexual-or-not/
Is your signal going to be allowed to get out? Will it be spoofed? Will you be recorded? Will an “artificial you” be created from those recorded samples? Will your GPS-disciplined equipment b...
Caught just before widespread distribution, few hams will have been exposed by this exploit which literally took years to install into a library of Linux. The exploit is well explained at (note t...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/long-patient-linux-hack-narrowly-averted/
Finally making some progress recovering from something it appears I picked up making Easter visits at an area nursing home. Seems they have been not doing well controlling norovirus type GI flu a...
If this posts it means there will be a brief hiatus while I am getting over a bug picked up visiting a nursing home. If I can I’ll finish off a few drafts and get them to post. 73 Steve K9ZW
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/03/dont-touch-that-dial-a-brief-hiatus-3/
Traffic save this time. As usual starts with an odd personal decision. I had been visiting my mother at an area nursing home, and when leaving on the spur of the moment decided I was going to t...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/non-radio-another-save-and-very-curious/
James Wesley, Rawles (JWR) (he like to use a comma between given names and his surname) recently updated an evolving article on investing, ending it on a topic that resonates with me – educatio...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/wise-words-investing-in-your-education/
Hams Over IP VOIP Network (they style it Ham‘s Over IP VOIP Network) is out there. https://hamsoverip.com/ Not much written about the background on the HoIP website and wiki (linked from the...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/more-voip-for-hams-hoip-network/
Jeff KE9V has made an long-term archive of his “Cornbread Road” audio series. Cornbread Road. Again. 25 March 2024 https://ke9v.net/2024/03/25/cornbread-road-again.html I recently uploaded th...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/archived-cornbread-road-audio-series-by-jeff-ke9v/
http://www.mrca.ar88.net/Old%20Pages/Net/MandS.html One my pals mention “ The Moose and Squirrel Cold-War Clandestine and Long-Range-Reconnaissance-Patrol Net (A place to actually use your mili...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/the-moose-and-squirrel-net/
Recently ran into where there were Unintended Consequences when encouraging someone to become active in amateur radio backfired. Some background: This licensee had tested to Extra Class level, bu...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/22/examples-of-ham-oppression-by-example/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_on_the_Wall Taken from the Wiki article about the song (bold added): Kurt Vonnegut quotes the song’s complete lyrics in his 1981 book Palm Sunday, callin...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/flowers-on-the-wall-saga-of-ft8/
As this posts I’ll be in transit home. An absolutely packed ten days split between Lisbon Portugal and the Cotswolds in England. Portugal was a conference which also largely was a sales ince...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/non-radio-heading-home/
Master storyteller and wordsmith Jeff KE9V started posting episodes of another of his ham radio “centric” tales. He is posting “The Zombie Apocalypse” at his blog: https://ke9v.net/ I typ...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/pull-up-a-chair-jeff-ke9v-has-another-radio-tale-for-us/
Wishing you a happy Pi Day!! Pi Day comes from 3.14 aka March 14th. https://www.piday.org/ Also March 14th is Einstein’s birthday. 73 SteveK9ZW
Churning and Burning through the Bands vs a Zen-like single QSO operating style? Commodity vs Exclusive Operating Styles are some of the different ways people get on the air. Commodity or “volu...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/commodity-vs-exclusive-operating-styles/
What data remains on our old & defunct gear? Recently replaced a couple more work computers, one for family with a new machine and one of my odds & ends machines. I had no idea what was on the re...
Call it a case of writer’s block, combined with other pressing tasks demanding attention to their finite timeframes, blog postings will need to spread out. Posts will happen with more time betw...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/short-pause-in-blog-postings/
Heard this morning that Bob Heil, K9EID, is now a Silent Key. Cancer is mentioned as the illness that he died from. I’d last exchanged emails with Bob K9EID at the beginning of this year, whe...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/a-tip-of-the-hat-to-bob-heil-k9eid-sk/
Hams seem to predominantly have either Linear-Productivity or Non-linear Productivity. Linear is where they start a ham project and like going around a board game, they have to do each step in se...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/linear-or-non-linear-productivity-ham-style/
February 28th 2024 hit another thousand-round logged QSO number, 51K this time. I have been pondering how many QSOs I would log if I didn’t have the remote capability of FlexRadio’s SmartLink...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/another-thousand-qsos-51000-logged-and-counting/
Stalled due to limited time availability. Turing RK1 Neural Processing Unit arrived. Waiting for the dedicated ITX case to be released. Honestly not exactly certain what to do with the cluster. I...
Both of my PACTOR projects have had some progress, but neither is up and running. Jeff KE9V was the most recent fellow ham to ask how I was coming, and adapted from what I emailed back to him: ...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/pactor-pmon-and-dr7800-project-updates/
Friday I brought home a pharmacy refill of the inhaler prescribed to counter the after effects of the flu. In the pharmacy bag, in a box, surrounded by lots of paperwork it wasn’t an object one...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/small-mistakes-with-big-consequences/
My Go-Kit HF antenna system is a SteppIR CrankIR https://consumer.steppir.com/shop/vertical-antennas/crankir-80m-2m-vertical-antenna-package/which is an awsome antenna, but is over 14 Lbs and tak...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/adding-a-rez-antenna-systems-setup-to-my-hf-go-kit/
Saw this discussion at the FlexRadio community: https://community.flexradio.com/discussion/8029744/halikey-remote-ptt-fob-and-cw-for-mac/ The little device certain looks very useful. HaliKey is a...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/halikey-usb-ptt-cw-dongle-for-smartsdr/
Recently had a surreal conversation where someone I had configured and given some ham radio related gear gave away that gear to a non-ham. That happens, and “re-gifting” is a person’s right...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/permissive-generosity-dont-think-so/
Planning a couple sets of US Islands activations (https://usislands.org/) I’ve done some promotion with the Lakeshore Amateur Radio Service Club but no takers so far. Usually club members like...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/planning-a-few-us-island-activations/
Ham radio’s “next big thing” events seem pretty far apart these days. Transceivers all continue to was to do what FlexRadio did with the FPGA SDR transceivers, often with an overlay of knob...
Hamshack Hotline commits suicide. Out of the blue the team has decided to purge anyone who isn’t regularly using their extension. Received by email: Hamshack Hotline Notice of Abandoned Extensi...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/18/hamshack-hotline-weirds-out-quick-purging/
While recovering from the Flu, I watch the NOVA show on building the Eiffel Tower. What a neat show! One thing that jumped out was that the original tower had a 20 year lease, and was supposed to...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/how-radio-saved-the-eiffel-tower/
Happy BBS Day! For a full background, see: https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/february-16th-is-bbs-day-1978-to-2023-online/ or http://bbsday.org Remembering kit-built home computers, 10MB driv...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/happy-bbs-day-februrary-16th/
Getting over the flu precluded my personally delivering a valentine treat to my mother, who is in a nursing home. I wasn’t even fit enough to venture out to buy my usual chocolate box for her e...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/a-valentines-unexpected-treat/
In an online chat that was really about VPN/ISP companies, discussion of the investment portion vs the discount of Life Time Subscriptions/Memberships ensued. Is it really good for the organizati...
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/ham-radio-clubs-about-life-memberships/