And we are back. In this installment, Richard tells us all about his renewed interest in emergency communications and his dealings with ARES in the Texas county where he now lives. On the Linux side of things, Russ talks about some security issues: the hacking of kernel.org, emacs violates the GPL and how to get […]
Introduction: Richard, KB5JBV, is back with a new podcast, tentatively titled “Richard’s Radio Adventures”. It will likely be a sporadic release, but hopefully you’ll find it interesting. Topics: Richard is working on setting up a WinLink 2000 gateway on Linux. Listen to Linux in the Ham Shack, which is still going strong. Charles, K4GBB, has…
It’s no mystery that we at Linux in the Ham Shack are big fans of the application known as fldigi. We’ve even had the author of the program, W1HKJ, on the program to talk about it. We consider it one of the best Linux-native programs for ham radio ever written. That being said, one of […]
Ok folks due to popular demand we are back. These will be a show that is a little different than the past show but I think you guys deserve it. I do not have the time to do a full blows podcast so this podcast will be a little more like the mobile episodes of…
In today’s long-awaited episode of LHS, we tackle a topic from a few episodes back, that of Open Hatch, the Open Source collaboration project. In another segment, Richard explores what it’s like to go through the process of getting your first amateur radio license. Among these topics we also mention the ICQ Podcast from the […]
Welcome to Episode #062 of Linux in the Ham Shack. Today Richard has decided he’s going to talk a bit (OK, a lot) about Winlink, AX.25 and packet radio under Linux. In the meantime, I get to discuss some useful Linux utilities like modprobe, wget and the SysV init script system. So get comfortable in […]
Hello, new and faithful listeners. Welcome to the sixty-first-eth installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. If anyone has been paying attention lately, a lot of podcasters are packing up their gear and moving on to other things. Many more have moved into much more irregular release cycles. We on the other hand are coming […]
Okay, so we managed to take a two month hiatus and we didn’t even know it was going to happen. Happen it did, though. Because of that, Episode #062 and #063 will have some dated information but most of it has been edited out and the stuff contained within that will be timeless has been […]
Installing Xastir in Mint Ben, VK5JFK, left a comment on my review of Linux Mint at the Linux in the Ham Shack web site, asking if I had installed Xastir under Mint. I had not, but since Richard talked about Xastir in Episode 23, and Linux Mint is the “official” distribution for Linux in the…
Everyone knows that I am fascinated with computers, and radios. So what better way to enjoy the hobby than to work modes involving both computers and Amateur Radio at the same time? That’s right; I’m talking about computer generated modes using a soundcard-to-rig interface. Have you ever heard of PSK-31? Slow Scan TV? Digital Slow…