HamClock 4.09 has just been released and the familiar POTA and SOTA panes have been replaced by a single pane called “On The Air” (displayed as “On Air” if it’s set to show in the tall left panel). It adds a new organisation, World Wide Flora & Fauna, abbreviated to WWFF and has been designed […]
A tip for adjusting the Pwr slider in WSJT-X
I’ve been using WSJT-X for a very long time, since it was called JT65-HF and one thing I’ve always found a little tricky was making fine adjustments to the Pwr control slider. I often want to make small adjustments and I’ve found that clicking on the slider itself can cause much larger adjustments than required. […]
I built a Stratum 1 NTP Time Server
New RTTY contest – Friday 4th October 2024
I have been emailed details of a new RTTY contest which will run for the first time this year on Friday 4th October 2024. It’s scheduled for the first Friday of October each year going forward. It’s called the URC DX RTTY Contest and the rules are pretty standard in that everyone works everyone. The […]
That’s N5J in the log for DXCC #304
How to set up a HamClock for your shack
Note: this entire process was tested and re-validated on the 1st December 2024 using a Raspberry Pi 4, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.10. I appreciate that the last post here was about the HamClock and I said I wouldn’t be providing a guide to building one but I’ve been asked […]
HamClock
For some years I’d been aware of HamClock and around April last year I decided to investigate further and built one using an old Raspberry Pi 3B that I had spare.If you’ve never heard of HamClock, it’s described on the authors page thus: “HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides real time space weather, radio […]