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Amateur radio, programming, computing, and life.

Hams we are!

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 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Fri, Jan 11, 2013

Kansas Weather Net: 55+ years and going strong!

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) …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Dec 23, 2012

A word on amateur radio kits

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 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Mon, Dec 17, 2012

Kit building, a journey into amateur radio

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 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Dec 16, 2012

“Ghost” a partition contents with rsync

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 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Wed, Nov 7, 2012