I wrote my HamClock install guide about a year ago and although I’ve kept it up to date with each version that’s been released, it doesn’t specifically show the new stuff that’s been added. I wrote about the new On The Air pane here. Configurations HamClock now allows you to save and load configurations. This […]
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How to use the new “On The Air” pane and Title with HamClock 4.09
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
How to set up a HamClock for your shack
Note: this entire process was tested and re-validated on the 21st September 2025 using a Raspberry Pi 3B, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.21. 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 […]
How to build a shack clock using a Raspberry Pi and a 7″ Touch Display.
Accurate time keeping on an Apple Mac running macOS Big Sur for FT8, FT4 and WSPR
How to automatically link your Pi-Star hotspot to D-Star or YSFReflectors
I noticed recently that sometimes my D-Star based MMDVM Pi-Star hotspot would unlink itself overnight from any reflector it was linked to and I decided to investigate and see if I could work out a way to automatically link it to a reflector. If I can’t stop my Pi-Star MMDVM from disconnecting then at least […]
How to update and upgrade your Pi-Star based hotspot
There are a couple of methods of updating a Pi-Star based MMDVM hotspot, one upgrades Pi-Star itself and the other method does a full operating system update as well as Pi-Star. The Pi itself automatically runs a process overnight that updates the host file and various other things but this is how to do a […]