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Dec
31

SOTA Fail on Clatskanie Mountain

Jason Milldrum on December 31st, 2011

This post is a bit late, but I wanted to be sure to document my first attempt at a SOTA activation and what I learned from it. The title is probably a bit harsh, but the eternal pessimist in me couldn't help it. I decided to attempt a SOTA activation after seeing a lot of [...]

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Dec
4

Ham Radio Hits Linux Journal

Jason Milldrum on December 4th, 2009

The January 2010 issue of Linux Journal is hitting the newsstands, and this one has the theme of Amateur Radio and Linux. One of the featured articles was written by none other than the local Linux guru, KK7DS. I haven't purchased the issue yet, but I got a sneak peak at this particular article, and [...]

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Jun
7

SEA-PAC 2009 Wrapup

Jason Milldrum on June 7th, 2009

Whew, I just got back from a nice day at the SEA-PAC 2009 convention in Seaside, OR. Due to the *ahem*unstable*ahem* financial situation that I have recently found myself in due to the current economic conditions, I decided a few months ago that I would skip the show this year. However, things ended up changing, [...]

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Aug
21

Must Be Something in the Water

Jason Milldrum on August 21st, 2008

I got my September QST in the mail last week and when I was doing my preliminary flip through the pages, an article caught my eye. Featured on the pages were quite a few screen shots of an application running on the very distinctive Ubuntu Human theme. It turns out that the article is about [...]

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