http://k0lwc.com/new-ham-radio-onboard-the-iss-is-on-the-air/

The new radio on the ISS is a modified Kenwood D710G, nice.

Almost downloaded a gig of MPLAB to try to program a PIC using a pre-supplied hex file…

… only to discover there’s a tiny GUI tool for the PICkit 3 programmer I have. Win! Actually, I just used Windows as last time I tried this stuff on Linux it was really hard.

I definitely prefer AVR stuff, but I guess that’s what I’m used to.

I’m building an N7DDC ATU kit from eBay.

Overheard: I just don’t want another bit of communications equipment on the house!

Great to see The Dork Web’s recent radio content – https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-dork-web-missing-links

This is one of my favourite newsletters at the moment, check it out if you like deep dives into miscellaneous nerdery (you know you do!).

It also mentions @DC7IA@chaos.social’s ham list, which is great 👌

#hamradio

DCC looks interesting!

https://tapr.org/papers-of-the-2020-arrl-tapr-digital-communications-conference-dcc/

So many online conferences, so little time!

#hamradio

Really enjoyed the bits of the GQRP online convention I made it to and looking forward to the recordings of the rest.

Some sessions had close to 300 people in attendance!

OK, so I don’t use the 30% keyboards I built in the past, but I still want one of these:

https://www.40percent.club/2020/08/gherkin-express.html

Great news, the GQRP convention will be making recordings available after the weekend.

Pretty sure I can’t be at my computer from Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 10:00 - Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 19:0, so that’s perfect!

The lineup for the GQRP club online convention looks good!

• “Building QRP transceivers” with Hans Summers G0UPL, designer and manufacturer of the QCX QRP transceiver.

• “HF propagation and QRP” with Steve Nichols G0KYA, author and chairman of the RSGB’s Propagation Studies Committee

• “Homebrew SSB Transceivers” with Pete Juliano N6QW, co-presenter of the Soldersmoke podcast and a prolific home brewer.

are just a few I could fit!

The maintainer of hamlib has asked for bug reports/feedback on whether a number of rigs (marked alpha, beta and untested) work with WSJT-X.

There’s a list at: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37062608/

#wsjt #ft8