It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 547th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts cover short topics including the return of Logbook of the World, gaming with FT-8, the RegreSSHion vulnerability that affects many systems, Nobara Linux 39, Linux running on Google Drive, the latest version of AllStar Link and much, much more. Thanks fo…

Hello and welcome to Episode 546 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take a look at some of the variations of the newly released Fedora 40 distribution. Topics include installation, desktop environments, ease of use, ham radio readiness, quirks and more. A particular focus is the partitioning system and other potential issues. Tha…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode 544 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss short topics including Hamvention 2024, the exploit affecting the ARRL and LoTW, Winamp, Rufus, a discussion on privacy in social media and much more. Thanks or listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 543rd episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss open-source retro gaming. Topics include operating systems for retro games, emulators, hardware options, building game cabinets, retro game hardware, handheld retro game consoles and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The L…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 541st episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss Ubuntu 24.04, the New England QSO Party, the GNU Radio Conference, alternatives to popular AI paradigms, systemd, FreeDV and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 540th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss the future release of the Linux in the Ham Shack version of Ubuntu 24.04. With the imminent release of the latest Ubuntu LTS, LHS is updating its re-spin in two versions: Gnome and XFCE. We discuss what's included and what's to come and the hope…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 538th episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss higher security for CORES users, amateur radio during the upcoming solar eclipse, more legislation on HOA restrictions, Gnome 46 and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode 537 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take an in-depth look at the QLog application. QLog is a standalone application written in C++ and using the Qt framework. Topics include download, installation, configuration, operation, special features, integrations and much more. Thanks for listening to this …

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 535th installment of LInux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts cover changes to the Parks on the Air (POTA) program, HDMI's AMD denial, the passing of ham radio icon, Bob Heil (K9EID), KDE's new mega release, SDRtrunk and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 534th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take a deep dive into a topic that has come up several times on the show: CQRlog. Topics including downloading the software, installation, initial configuration, general usage and ultimately some advanced topics. We hope you enjoy this episode. Thanks f…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode #532 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss contacting the moon via amateur radio, the demise of AO-92, the magic band, Ubuntu 24.04, SparkyLinux and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS CrewBy Black Sparrow Media

Hello and welcome to the 531st installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss an easy-to-use, secure and open source personal (or enterprise) VPN solution known as Tailscale. Topics include downloading and installation, preliminary configuration, VPN management, usage cases, advanced features and much more. Thanks for lis…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode 529 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss the removal of HF symbol rate limits for amateur radio data, solar eclipse studies, new TLE data for ISS tracking, a new release of Linux Mint, a new Linux kernel and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 528th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack, the first for the year 2024. In this episode, the hosts take a deep dive into the JTDX application for weak signal modes. Topics include features, download and installation (package and build), configuration, operation and much more. Thanks for tuning in and have a great week. 73…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 526th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss symbol rate restrictions, new extra class pool questions, ffmpeg, OpenBao, GridTracker and much more. Thanks for turning in and have a great week. 73 de The LHS CrewBy Black Sparrow Media

Hello and welcome to Episode 525 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take an in-depth look at the Linux Show Player application. The application is an audio and lighting cue manager for doing podcasts, live performances, concerts or what have you. It can control devices, set up macros, play audio, set lighting scenes and much more…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 523rd installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss the FCC removing symbol rate limitations, the ongoing WRC-23, Canonical MicroCloud, Ubuntu Budgie, Wayland and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode 522 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take a look at some of the variations of the newly released Fedora 39 distribution. Topics include installation, desktop environments, ease of use, ham radio readiness, quirks and more. A particular focus is the Onyx edition which is an immutable distro option. T…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 520th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss several open source and ham radio topics. Topics include: student contacts with the ISS, solar eclipse studies, proposed changes to the 60-meter band, the latest Raspberry Pi OS, OpenWebRX and much more. Thanks for listening and hav…

Hello and welcome to Episode #519 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this deep dive episode, the hosts discuss more than one topic that need a bit of exploration. Those topics include: the upcoming JOTA/JOTI scouting event on the air and Internet, the LHS Minecraft server, Ubuntu 23.10 and iVentoy. Thank you for listening and we hope you have a great we…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Welcome to the 517th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss various topics including: blogs.radio, a new ham radio information aggregator, JOTA/JOTI, SDRdock, the upcoming Ubuntu release, LMDE 6 and much more. Thank you for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode 516 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this deep dive episode, the hosts interview Aaron, the creator and maintainer of DragonOS about software-defined radios: applications, setup, usage and the new RTL-SDRv4. Additional information about DragonOS is also provided straight from the author's mouth. Thank you for listening and…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode #514 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss several stories including hacking trains with radio, new satellite launches, solar eclipse research, ZFS, Bodhi Linux and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 513th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts review the radio-centric Linux distribution known as DragonOS. Based on Ubuntu, it has a focus on radio spectrum and SDR applications. All aspects of the OS are explored from downloading, to installation to operation to post-installation configuration a…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to Episode #511 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss the National Boy Scout Jamboree, SOTA activations in Colorado, volunteerism in amateur radio in Sacramento, commercial radio in the HF bands, Snowstorm, Linux on the desktop, COSMIC, Proton Pass and much more. Thank you for listening and hav…

Hello and welcome to the 510th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts interview one of their own -- Bill, NE4RD -- about the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association. For many years, the K2BSA organization has been involved in the promotion of amateur radio, technology and skill in the realm of worldwide Scouting and beyond. Every…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Welcome to the 508th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss several topics including: the ARDC on groups.io, changes to HOA rules for hams, potential licensing changes in the UK, Intel's Mono font, KDE, Not1MM and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 507th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode we have special guest Mike, K6GTE, to discuss his project called Not1MM. Linux has long been in need of a popular and well sorted contest logger and Mike has taken up the task. The N1MM contest logger for Windows has long been a staple of amateur radio contesting …

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 505th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss efforts to mitigate QRM, licensing for eLoran frequencies, Project Boondock, Wine integration with Wayland, Azure Linux, the Dolphin project and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 504th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss the ins and outs of portable operations including *OTA stations. All topics are covered from hardware and software to space and weight considerations, power consumption, land use rights, expenses, operating procedures and much more. Thanks for l…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Welcome to the 502nd episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts take on a variety of topics including: ham radio during tornado season, operators discovering hidden Russian activity, sculpture as antennae, GNOME 44, GNOME Circle and much more. Thank you for listening and have a great week. 73 de The LHS Crew…

Hello and welcome to the 501st episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, we talk with Mooneer Salem, K6AQ, primary developer on the FreeDV team. After a signficant grant from the ARDC, LHS was curious what's new, what's been developed lately, the direction of the project and what the grant money will be used for. This episode covers every…

Hello and welcome to the 500th episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts cut loose and let it all hang out. Topics range from science to games to technology and hedonism. It's just a free-for-all, fun episode with a little of this, a little of that and--oh yeah--the drawing for our 500th Episode giveaway. Thank you all for 500 e…

It's time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we're doing. We'd love to hear from you. 73 de The LHS Crew…