Network Engineering & Ham Radio Ramblings
First posted 2/22/2026 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. 2026 marks 20 years since I finished
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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
Read moreFirst 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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