I was feeling nostalgic a couple months ago and built a hack poster out of
plywood. It’s mostly modeled after the original but I added the radio tower
and changed the words. “This technology could fall into the right hands” still
makes me smile when I see it out in the world.
I looked everywhere for a case for W8BH’s Morse Tutor project[1].
The only one I found was a 3d printed one for the previous revision with the smaller screen.
I’ve recently been using DSD FME to
decode Silke Communication’s FleetNet Network
radio traffic around me. After some configuration effort it’s working well,
but I realized one of the things I’ve really appreciated about the past decade
is the slow migration to asynchronous communications (email, messages, etc.)
instead of voice calls or in-person meetings that interrupt whatever I’m doing.
I don’t want to actually listen to the radio traffic, rather, I’d like to skim
it, preferably visually, after-the-fact to see if anything interesting
happened.
There are plenty of walkthroughs online about setting up FT8 on the DX-3000 with Windows but I didn’t find any for OS X. So, here we are. I’m using the USB interface.
Thirteen years ago I wrote a library called Hera to make expiring content on Zeus Traffic Managers easier. It was on PyPi
but never super popular and the maintainers of Hera
Workflow got in touch with
me about taking over the namespace. I don’t use the library anymore so it was
easy to give up the name. If you do need the library you can find it on
GitHub.