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Cloud computing and Ham Radio

by @ Friday, July 3rd, 2009. Tags:
Filed under software

Looking at different ham radio blogs, I came upon a cool concept by KE9V, Jeff  about using the cloud for ham radio logging.
Looking at his proposal initially, I scoffed, as an IT person, “cloud computing” is the current “buzzword” in IT.
But keeping an open mind, I began to consider his thoughts carefully, especially in light [...]

Computer-aided dxpeditions

by @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under cw, dx, dxpedition, skimmer, software, space

EDIT 2010/Jan/18
I was contacted by several members of the ZL7T dxpedition about this blog post. My only intent of this blog post was to get discussion going about the use CW skimmer type software at a time when this software was relativly new. The post was NOT a attack on the ZL7T dxpedition who I [...]

Software review:N1MM part two

by @ Tuesday, July 8th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under software

The last installment, I talked about the N1MM entry window and some of the features of N1MM.
Today I am going to go a little deeper and explain some of the features. I am going to break this review into bite sized pieces so that you dont get bored reading a bunch of stuff at one [...]

Software review: N1MM Logger part one

by @ Monday, July 7th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under software

This is a review of the freeware contest logging program N1MM.
This is the program I use here at K4SAC for contest logging.
I wanted to do a review on this program, but it is so full featured and robust, you just cant do it in one review. So I am going to break this review up [...]

Firefox phones home…….

by @ Thursday, June 26th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under software

I was disturbed to learn that Firefox makes unrequested connections….I thought those of you that read this blog may want to know….Click on my title to go to the original article. 73, Jack K4SAC

Firefox makes unrequested connections

Some people are particularly concerned about the connections Firefox makes to the internet, especially when such connections are [...]

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