A quick guide on how to use the FTM-100D with WIRES-X Nodes and Rooms.
NTP Service Added to KD7DMP.net
I’ve added a stratum 0 NTP server to my collection of useful things in the ham shack. I was able to acquire a rubidium/GPS time source via a local government auction recently. So I’ve setup it up on my network and then setup a stratum 1 NTP synced off of that time source for you […]
New Web Site Host and Design.
s I’m sure you have noticed by now, my website is loading much faster and has a new look. After about 10 years of self hosting my website I have decided to move it to BlueHost. This was a two fold reasoning, the first is that I have limited time with my current job. I was finding it difficult to keep up maintenance while on the road all of the time. The second reason was cost, Self host was raising my power bill quite a lot, and the the cost of the Static IPs at my rural home address was just becoming too much. Plus with this new setup, faster servers, and less load on my home servers, I’ll be able to setup more projects in the coming years.
How to stay up to date with a limited internet.(Rambling Version)
With recent SCOTUS decision on TikTok there is a high likelihood that a precedent will be set for a more restrictive internet with in the USA. This is will compounded by the rolling back of Internet Neutrality with the ruling of the 6th circuit court and the growing power of large tech companies like Google, […]
Podcasting on the Cheap.
I’ve been working with Andrea Parrish for the last few years now doing the production work on A Thousand Things to Talk About. It’s a daily short-form podcast that answers a different question each day. In the course of doing the podcast, we have had a couple different setups for recording, and I thought I would […]
Spokane County ARES Presentation
Last night the Spokane County ARES group asked me to come out and give a presentation on FM voice repeaters and to talk about their repeater system. It was a great talk with a lot of good questions! Here is a copy of the side show I used for the talk. Below are images of […]
GPS-Speedometer
So this project started because of a need and because of a wanted. The need was getting two speeding tickets in a row because stock analog speedometer was drifting as much as 10 MPH off of true speed. The want was because Adafruit had a really cool LED display and GPS breakout board that I wanted […]