If you have the Quadra 4K, see here. There’s a bug somewhere which stops the log tidying working correctly on some installations of HamClock, including the original Inovato Quadra. As a temporary fix, it’s possible to start HamClock with logging disabled and this will describe how to do that. First, close HamClock. Click the padlock […]
If you have the original Quadra (not 4K), see here. There’s a bug somewhere which stops the log tidying working correctly on some installations of HamClock, including the Inovato Quadra 4K. As a temporary fix, it’s possible to start HamClock with logging disabled and this will describe how to do that. First, close HamClock. Click […]
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 […]
HamClock 4.09 has just been released and the familiar POTA and SOTA panes have been replaced by a single pane called “On The Air” (displayed as “On Air” if it’s set to show in the tall left panel).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 […]
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. […]
This is something I’ve been considering doing for years and following a recent conversation with a good friend, I looked into it again and found this guide which was posted back in July 2023. In my box of stuff, I found I had a couple of GPS modules, one Adafruit and one of exactly the […]
Note: this entire process was tested and re-validated on the 30th December 2025 using a Raspberry Pi 4, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.21. See note below, you have to ensure you select Bookworm as the operating system. I appreciate that the last post here was about the HamClock and I […]
A few weeks ago I bought the official Raspberry Pi 7″ touchscreen display for a project which sadly didn’t work as intended, this left me with the unused display and a case. I started thinking about things I could use it for and settled on a shack clock. Long term readers of my site will […]
2023 update – This still works with macOS Sonoma and Apple Silicon. I’ve been using Apple computers for many years now and even though I’ve made a couple of previous blog posts about keeping the clock accurate on a Mac, those methods have never really been needed and I posted them as a sort of […]
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 […]
