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LHS Episode #069: Our CUPS Runneth Over

In this episode of Linux in the Ham Shack, our heroes manage to stay more or less on topic, which means there might be some actual content for the listeners. Hooray for small miracles. In segment one, Richard discusses his adventure at the Texoma Hamarama in Ardmore, Oklahoma. In segment two, the boys get all […]

Richard’s Radio Adventures 003 Show Notes

Introduction: Richard, KB5JBV, recording pedestrian mobile. Topics: Richard moved house recently, and his new location appears to have very little in the way of active amateur radio clubs, ARES or RACES. His solution? He and another ham reactivated a local ARES group, and are trying to get the assistance and support of the Trinity Valley…

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RRA Episode 3: No Radio club? build your own.

No HAM radio in your area? well ask a few questions and build your own.
 
Intro music by Magic Slim and the Teardrops.
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Richard’s Radio Adventures 002 Show Notes

Introduction: Richard, KB5JBV, recording mobile. Topics: Richard reminisces about Whit, N5SU, who recently became a silent key. The moral of the story? If you have an amateur radio license, you can be an Elmer. Help one of your fellow hams out. Everybody knows something that can be of use to someone else. Contact Info: Contact…

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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 […]