Street Photos from Beijing

Forster trip with Ken

Ken came to visit from Seattle so Beard and I took a day off on Friday to go car-camping in Forster.

International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend 2017

At my first International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend with the Manly Warringah Radio Society, operating from Barrenjoey Lighthouse. Here is their writeup: http://www.mwrs.org.au/lighthouse-ope...

Ettus USRP x310 installation on Ubuntu

Vivado 2017.4 Version (Aug 2018)

How to make a Ubuntu boot usb in OSX (don’t use the UNetbootin USB installer)

I had a lot of trouble making an Ubuntu boot USB drive from OSX. The instructions on https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#0 don’t work in general. I think ther...

A 2m/70cm (146MHz and 440MHz) J-pole Antenna

My electronics doesn’t normally involve a hacksaw, hammer and propane torch but I had fun building this J-pole antenna from instructions by N6JSX.

The Dish, Parkes NSW

The Dish

Balls Head Panorama

Sydney Skyline from Balls Head