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Usually the month of May is good for at least one or two E-skip events, and May 2026 is not an exception. There were two skip events on the 18th and the 19th of the month. I m keeping a running total of my skip on this page . You can follow along during the summer to see how the season is progressing,
April 29, 2026. I just noticed that my site got broken. Many of my pages were blank and the traffic on this site was zero for some days now. A WordPress update will do that to ya, I guess. Never fear, though. I got it back up. But this effort made me look around and see that I needed to do some updating of the content here, and update it I did. I added some of my favorite (and most needed) links.…
Something happened late at night on January 20, 2026. The people experiencing it weren t sure what it was. A few hardy souls were sitting around their computers watching the WTFDA s prop logger (the WLogger) and with auroral DX on their minds, not thinking about anything else with their antennas pointing north. Things changed when one of them began seeing analog TV DX on ch2 from the south instead…
SDRConnect v1.0.6 is now available here . Changes: Current Features: WebSocket API for 3rd party integration and application automation Multiple VRXs Built in support for all models of RSP except the original RSP1 Remote server with two streaming modes across both LAN and WAN (internet): a) Full IQ and b) Audio – a streaming mode which provides a very efficient way of displaying a large spectral…
I hope that all of you who visit my site have a great Christmas and I hope that 2026 works out well for all of us. To those of you who come here to listen to my old 1960s AM radio clips, I hope you enjoy them. To those who come here looking to build their own DIY FM antennas, I hope you pick up lots of stations with them. Remember, there are much more important things in our lives than radios,…
Ya know, most of the time I really do like running my own TEF webserver. I really do. But there are time you just feel like punching your fist through a wall or just calling it quits. If I have a problem, the problem is with users. Granted, most of them are really young but nice and fun to talk to, but a few will drive you crazy and make you think about giving it all up and using your laptop for…
Hang those Autologgers! Can t happen soon enough So, are you using one of those things? Why? I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to use one of those. It s not you doing the logging; it s the damned autologger, for God s sakes. I could never say that I logged WUUU in good conscience when the thing did. I would never add those logs to my total. Maybe if the autologger, oh…
SDRPlay just released SDRConnect v1.0.5 on September 25, 2025. Here are some of the changes: v1.0.5 build e077f2ebe (26th September 2025) To operate this release with nRSP-ST, the firmware must be updated to at least 1.0.11 – this also has a fix for Safari 26 users Added Diversity support over the network via server (requires RSPduo) MP3 Audio recording support Rig control support o Omni-Rig…
Conditions toward the end of August 2025 through September provided two of the best tropo events I ve seen in many, many years. Usually the coastal DXers in Massachusetts get tropo this good, but these two tropo events went well inland, to my delight. The better of the two evens was the September 22 tropo which pushed its way down to Jacksonville and Wilmington, NC. The best catches of the 8/16…