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KY6R Art Gallery (1)
Some weird and wonderful physical-art photos from KY6R. Rich Holoch has been by profession a database administrator (DBA), now an amazing physical-and-photographic artist, and for a long time an...
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KY6R Art Gallery (2)
See my post from yesterday on the art of Rich Holoch, KY6R. See his photos directly on Flickr for even more. Here is the second of his photo sets that I promised I’d feature: Please upgrade your...
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The iPhone is an “amateur radio”
Comeon‘ Apple — we all know “my phone has five bars and yet it drops calls all the time.” I call customer support on average once a month about this. They have even given me credits on my bill (not...
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AA6AX
Geekiest of the geeks — amateur radio operators! (AKA “Hams”) Inquiries or QSL “cards” » QSL@aa6ax.us or PO Box 27591, San Francisco CA 94127-0591 I’ve had an amateur radio license since 1958 when I...
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73 and 86
Someone asked today about the meaning of “73” as used by amateur radio operators. It essentially means “Bye” or “Best wishes” and is used when you’re done talking to someone and signing off…as in “I’ll...
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SOTA—Summits On The Air
Since the age of 6, when I visited Estes Park, Colorado, whenever I see any geographical feature more than say 100 meters above me, I climb it. (Provided it’s not a technical climb.) If I can get there...
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Summer of Yosemite 2012
It has been my plan to make several trips into the Yosemite wilderness this summer in order to visit some places I’ve never seen before. Most tourists have seen Yosemite “Valley” and many have seen...
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Mars Curiosity Inspires me to Explore more Radio Data Modes
This is a way geeky night for us engineers, and somewhat akin to the 1969 moon landing in many ways. I’m watching the Mars rover Curiosity landing right now (14 minutes delayed, of course, due to the...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Last Flyover
NASA flew the retired Space Shuttle Endeavour through the San Francisco Bay Area this morning. It was a treat for tens of thousands of us who waited and watched for this very last flight of the...
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Amateur Radio needs to be renamed
Two beefs here. First, “Amateur Radio” needs a different name. Second, “Ham” radio needs another name. It has always been a bit embarrassing to me that regular people who have learned a shitload about...
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Packet Radio Notes
In amateur radio circles there’s much use of digital modes to exchange information. (In olden days it was almost exclusively limited to “chatting” on the air.) At least in the circles I’m running in...
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Visualizing packet traffic
Very techie here… For a few months I’ve been operating a packet radio station on a 2-meter radio frequency here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I explored what it would take to make this a full “BBS”...
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Packet and SFWEM interconnects
Over the last year (most of 2020), the majority of my radio work has been focused on making my connections between packet radio and SFWEM even more resilient. SFWEM.NET is the San Francisco Wireless...
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