Tags
- apple
- arden_park
- bike
- boardgamegeek
- boardgames
- book
- bookcrossing
- boot_failure
- cabinetry
- csus
- demolition
- electrical
- framing
- gymnastics
- hacking
- ham_radio
- harry_potter
- how-to
- humor
- hvac
- joseph
- kitchen
- liberal
- library
- mac
- meetup
- obcz
- plumbing
- politics
- powerbook
- quilt_shop
- review
- roof
- sacramento
- sonicchicken_blog
- spam_karma
- stucco
- subversion
- sysadmin
- tags_plugin
- thanksgiving
- theme
- tile
- web
- wordpress
Recent comments
December 2024 M T W T F S S « Apr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Archives
About this blog…
I use this platform to share things that are of interest to me or things I'll want to reference later. Occasionally other people like these posts, hence "Shared Interests".
What might you find here?
- Problems I've solved (mostly computer- or network related).
- Recipes and cooking-related posts.
- Hobbies and projects.
- Our remodeling experience.
- Local (Sacramento) information.
- Anything that strikes my fancy.
Tag Archives: ham_radio
The RBN
Bill Meara has a cool [SolderSmoke blog post][SS] about the [Reverse Beacon Network][RBN]. Unlike regular (“forward”?) beacons where a station automatically transmits specially formatted messages, the Reverse Beacon Network listens for real operators calling CQ (“Does anybody wanna chat with … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged beacon, ham_radio, reverse_beacon_network, softrock, soldersmoke
Leave a comment
New HF propagation widget
I modified the SonicChicken homepage today. The “weather pixie” links haven’t been working for some time now, so I finally removed all those. I may add some sort of weather widget back in later. But in the meantime, I added … Continue reading
Power supply project
I built my 11-amp power supply a while ago, but I just now finished writing up the [article about it](http://www.n6na.org/home/UserN3JIMpowerSupply1).
Home-brewed SWR meter
I finished my home-brewed SWR meter last week, but this blog was down. (I failed to heed my hosting company’s warning about a PHP upgrade, doh!) So, now that the blog is back online, I’m posting it here as well.
Twinlead slim-JIM antenna
I finally finished my first antenna tonight! I made a [twinlead slim jim][] and tried getting on the air. Unfortunately, there aren’t many people on this late on a holiday evening. I *was* able to make one contact with a … Continue reading
My callsign
I just realized that I never posted my ham (amateur radio) [callsign][], something which I meant to do as soon as I received confirmation. It’s: N3JIM If you want to know more about radio callsigns (both ham and broadcast), here’s … Continue reading
Arden Park hams
I got my amateur radio (“ham”) license last week, but I haven’t posted my callsign very widely because I applied for a [vanity callsign](http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/vanity.html) as soon as I got my license. (It isn’t possible to apply for a vanity call … Continue reading