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Revving up to CCNP Recert in 2025

January 2, 2025January 2, 2025
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Homelab

First posted 1/1/2025 As always, opinions in this post are solely those of my own, and not necessarily those of any organization I am currently affiliated with or have been in the past. Wow, where did 2024 go?!? Sure, I

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Upgraded QTH Roof & Feedlines

December 24, 2024December 24, 2024
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Ham Radio

First posted 12/23/2024 The double hamstick dipole situation on my roof was great, but a fairly sizable hailstorm in late spring resulted in almost everyone in our neighborhood needing a new roof (fortunately the antennas & PVC structure survived the

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WSJT-X on a 20 year old computer running AntiX Linux 23 (or Raspberry Pi OS)

February 15, 2024February 16, 2024
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Ham Radio

First posted 2/16/2024 The first brand-new computer I ever built for myself had an Abit AAX8E motherboard with a late 2004 Pentium 4 3.2ghz (single-core!) processor, and still remains in my basement to this day. The CMOS battery on it

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2024 Gameplan

January 13, 2024January 13, 2024
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Ham Radio, Homelab

First posted 1/13/2024 I have a whole bunch of tiny updates that I would have split into multiple ham radio, homelab & everything else posts in the past. But rather than bore everyone with low-quality posts, I figured one big

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Moving this blog to an OrangePi 5 + Cloudflare Tunnel on Debian 12 (with WSJT-X!)

December 24, 2023December 24, 2023
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Homelab

First Posted 12/23/2023 My webhosting provider said my credit card on-file is expiring, and needs to be updated within 7 days. This got me thinking: since our new home’s internet is very reliable, why don’t I stop paying the hosting

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HVAC Homelab Part 1: Python fun with Ecobee & Dyson APIs

December 4, 2023December 4, 2023
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Homelab

First published 12/3/2023 As always, opinions in this post are solely those of my own, and not necessarily those of any organization I am currently affiliated with or have been in the past. While this might seem like a departure

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Double the Hamstick dipoles, double the fun!

October 1, 2023October 14, 2023
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Ham Radio

First posted 10/1/2023 It’s been a very busy summer over here, after a good year and a half since moving away from the condo balcony antennas, I’m finally happy with my setup at the new QTH. Unlike my previous 10m

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IPv6-only fun with Echolink & Wireshark

April 3, 2023April 3, 2023
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Ham Radio, Homelab

First posted 4/2/2023 As always, opinions in this post are solely those of my own, and not necessarily those of any organization I am currently affiliated with or have been in the past. I recently revived my NAT64/Tunnelbroker.net homelab and

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FT8 on an original iMac G3?!?

February 5, 2023February 5, 2023
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Ham Radio

First posted 2/5/2023 Ever since sharing the picture of me cleaning my shower while doing an FT8 QSO over at the WSJT-X + Raspberry Pi 4 + VNC write-up, I’ve had many people ask about getting silly mobile devices to

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IPv6-only Windows XP with working DNS & web browser in 2022

November 20, 2022November 20, 2022
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Homelab

First posted 11/20/2022 As always, opinions in this post are solely those of my own, and not necessarily those of any organization I am currently affiliated with or have been in the past. Due to a certain mandate from Uncle

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