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RRA Episode 2: Farewell to Whit N5SU

Ok everybody here it is episode 2. Sorry about the quality of the audio but it was the only to get the road noise out of it.
Intro is Magic Slim and the teardrops – Let me love you
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Tales of the Texas Hamfest in Oklahoma

    Well let me see if I can come up with enough words to get all the pictures on this post. Well October is here and along with the State Fair of Texas in Dallas it is also time for the Texhoma Hamarama in Ardmore Oklahoma. For many years a friend of mine and…

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LHS Episode #068: Hell Sheep

And finally the podcast is caught up. All the back episodes have been edited and released and now Russ is taking a break, breathing a little easier and hiding from the hell sheep. In this episode, the hosts talk about the new release of Ubuntu (formal review coming later), the KDE desktop, doing noise cancellation […]

LHS Episode #067: The Left Hand of ARES

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 […]

Richard’s Radio Adventures 001 Show Notes

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…

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LHS Episode #066: His Name is Ted

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 […]

Richard’s Radio Adventures Episode 1: Here we go again?

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…

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LHS Episode #065: Bottoms Up

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 […]

LHS Episode #064: Winlink and AX.25

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 […]

LHS Episode #063: South of the Border

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 […]