Ramblings by K6RJ

Just so you know, I live in Southern California where there is no lack of hams nor 2 meter repeaters.  Several times through the years I have owned VHF and UHF rigs only to sell them in short order.
Why, you ask?  Simply because of the abhorrent behavior of many of the hams I hear on [...]

Charles Walsh, K1NWB of Barstow, CA has built this beautiful shack.  A place for everything and everything in it’s place.  Some day, some day …

Not wanting to irrevocably burn a beta firmware fix into my Presonus Firebox sound card I have decided to take the opportunity to upgrade to an Edirol FA-66 sound card.    Should there be a glitch during the firmware burn I could end up with a useless sound card.  While the dynamic range of the Edirol [...]

It has come to my attention that the Presonus Firebox has a firmware bug or glitch that attenuates the audio response  significantly beyond a 24 KHz bandwidth.  Presonus apparently has provided a beta firmware update that fixes the problem.  However, as this is a beta firmware update, there is no way to rollback to your [...]

On a whim I decided to try using my new SDR-1000 with the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card I already had installed in my PC.  The PowerSDR software lists this as a supported card so I thought I would give it a try.  Heck, why not?
Now, most sound cards in personal computers aren’t full [...]

When my SDR-1000 arrived it came with everything I needed to install it except for the fact that my PC did not have a Firewire port.  Of course, the resolution wasn’t as simple as installing just any old Fireware card.  The folks at Flexradio recommend that you use a Firewire card that uses a TI [...]