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4 State QRP Group Bayou Jumper (Paraset inspired QRP XCVR)

Just before Christmas the 4 State QRP Group announced that a new kit is available, dubbed the Bayou Jumper. From its introductory page: “Return with us now to those thrilling …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Fri, Jan 27, 2017

Compiling WSJT-X 1.7.0 on Devuan Jessie

The latest version of WSJT-X, 1.7.0, was released on 19 December, 2016. I found that the available Debian formatted package would not install as it is built for Ubuntu 16.04.1 (and …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Fri, Dec 23, 2016

My first introduction to amateur radio

It was early 1977 as I recall, probably just after New Years, I was 13, CB was big in the popular culture and I wished to be able to take part but a CB at the time was just too …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sat, Dec 17, 2016

Running Electraft utilities on Linux amd64 and multiarch

At this time the Elecraft utilities for Linux are only available as i386 32 bit precompiled binaries. Other architectures such as amd64 or armhf (Raspberry Pi) must use another …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Jul 31, 2016

Enabling sysvinit on Minibian Jessie

As I was building a very minimal system for running APRX (N0NB-10) I chose to use Minibian as the starting point rather than stripping down the full Raspbian image to run on a …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, May 29, 2016