Author Archives: Nate Bargmann

About Nate Bargmann

An amateur radio operator, vintage motorcycle enthusiast, and all around tinkerer interested in too many things to focus on one for very long. When I'm typing here, it's likely that I should be doing something else.

New weather station online

Posted on 16 May 2015 by Nate Bargmann 3,079 views

After ten years of reliable service, I have replaced the Peet Brothers Ultimeter 2000 with a Davis Vantage Pro2 wireless unit. This allows me to have the sensor unit a greater distance from the shack as it will transmit to … Continue reading →

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Defining your own happiness

Posted on 01 Nov 2014 by Nate Bargmann 3,506 views

Once again I had to relearn a tough lesson about letting one’s happiness be defined by others.  To wit, the heartbreaking end of the 2014 World Series for those of us who are Kansas City Royals fans.  I’ve been there … Continue reading →

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Marshall County ARC Field Day featured in ARRL Midwest Division newsletter

Posted on 17 Aug 2014 by Nate Bargmann 4,320 views

It’s actually a rare occasion that I check out things like the ARRL Midwest Division newsletter.  A week and a half ago I did so for the first time in a long while (shameful, I know), and found, to my … Continue reading →

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Debian 7.3.0 (Wheezy) in VirtualBox

Posted on 23 Jan 2014 by Nate Bargmann 3,698 views

To test a software build I installed Debian 7.3.0, a.k.a. Wheezy, into a VirtualBox drive.  All seemed well except the VirtualBox Guest additions did not seem to be active as a shared directory to the host computer could not be … Continue reading →

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Netiquette

Posted on 18 Sep 2013 by Nate Bargmann 3,825 views

In this post “netiquette” will refer to the way we conduct ourselves on amateur radio ARRL National Traffic System affiliated traffic nets, not the Internet version. Amateur radio traffic nets, particularly ones conducted in a phone mode, attract a number … Continue reading →

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Hams we are!

Posted on 10 Jan 2013 by Nate Bargmann 4,332 views

An oft asked question, particularly from newcomers to amateur radio, is the origin of the name ham as applied to our hobby. Many explanations have been offered over the years but none have been as credible to me as this … Continue reading →

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Kansas Weather Net: 55+ years and going strong!

Posted on 23 Dec 2012 by Nate Bargmann 6,577 views

I was looking through the July 1957 issue of QST (my local archive from QST View) and found the following in the Kansas Section News (I rarely look in this area of the old issues) on page 116: “[W0]LXA, of … Continue reading →

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A word on amateur radio kits

Posted on 16 Dec 2012 by Nate Bargmann 7,654 views

Over the next few weeks I plan a series of posts on the amateur radio kits that I am building this winter.  The other night I was describing the first one I am building, the AC-1 Junior by Dwight, KG4HSY, … Continue reading →

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Kit building, a journey into amateur radio

Posted on 16 Dec 2012 by Nate Bargmann 11,125 views

Amateur radio has a long history of building.  Whether from the earliest days of the hobby where nearly every component had to be constructed or modified slightly to convert a landline Morse component into wireless service all the way to … Continue reading →

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“Ghost” a partition contents with rsync

Posted on 06 Nov 2012 by Nate Bargmann 20,465 views

The rsync utility may be one of the best kept secrets on any platform.  Certainly, its use as a backup tool is well known, but perhaps a bit less well known is it’s ability to replicate a complete partition’s contents … Continue reading →

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