The WIA has opened a public consultation on 40 m harmonisation. Below is my submission.
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Measuring Common Mode Chokes
There is plenty of published information on how to build common mode chokes (CMCs), but not much related to measuring their performance. This post details three such tests using a Nano VNA. If anyone is aware of additional tests which will shed light on a CMC’s performance, I’m all ears.
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Resetting a broken FLDigi install
My FLDigi settings got messed up, and could not identify how to reset it. I tried deleting what configuration data, and uninstalling then reinstalling, all to no avail. Thankfully a video by Stuart (AG6AG), pointed me in the right direction.
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Digital Voice Keying a Kenwood TS-590SG from N1MM+
Getting voice digital voice keying (DVC) working between N1MM+ and my TS-590SG has been an elusive target, but after another contest without it, I decided it really was a bullet which needed to be bitten. The post will explain the vagaries of the TS-590SG, and why it’s not as straight forward as perhaps some other radios.
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Resetting the Kenwood TS-590SG’s Audio Routing
Whilst experimenting with a software mixer, I changed the settings within the TS-590SG’s companion application, ARUA-10, which allows software routing of audio between the radio and computer. The titles are somewhat cryptic, so am documenting the default settings here, should they ever need to be reset again.
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Updating LAN SSL certificates
Renewing LAN based SSL certificates and installing them to a Synology NAS and RouterOS device was a bit of a hullabaloo, so want it documented for when it breaks in three years, by which time I will have forgotten how it was configured.
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In trying to consolidate my phone numbers, something broke, and the formatting of my numbers ended up broken. Augh. SQL Server to the rescue!
Archiving the mac photo library to a network share
In keeping with the idea of documenting those obscure (relatively) CLI commands that I only use once in a blue moon and forget if not written down, this one archives the photo’s from the Mac Photos application to our NAS.
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Securing AllMon on VKLink nodes
By default the AllMon installation with VKNode is not encrypted. What does this mean? If you have your AllMon page publicly accessible, you are sending your admin username and password over the internet in plan text, in the open. That’s bad. Really bad.
This post will detail the steps required to secure your install so that all communication between your node and browser is encrypted.
MacOS, pain and copying large numbers of files
Using Finder’s copy and paste is a bit daft. There’s nothing nuanced in its operations, or if it is, it’s not user friendly enough for me to have noticed.
All I wanted to do was copy a large number of files to a network drive (around 150 GB worth). This should have been a lot easier than it was.
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