Ubuntu

Sep
29

VOACAP For Linux

Jason Milldrum on September 29th, 2011

During some discussions with AA7EE regarding a seeming lack of 20 meter propagation between us at any time right now, we both decided to do a bit of research into what was even feasible according to predictive software. Dave went to the VOACAP web service from OH6BG to get some nice plots which showed that indeed [...]

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Oct
16

My First Impression of Karmic Koala

Jason Milldrum on October 16th, 2009

I just updated the shack PC to Ubuntu Karmic beta and I'm impressed. Nothing earth-shattering, but lots more polish compared to Jaunty, and seems quite a bit snappier. I think it's worth the upgrade if you're already an Ubuntu user. If you are not, then download the ISO and try it in live CD mode. [...]

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Oct
26

Shhh...WSPR...

Jason Milldrum on October 26th, 2008

Like I don't have enough ham radio interests to keep me busy, but sometimes I have the attention span of a hummingbird and want to try new things that catch my eye. Such was the case when I saw VK2TPM's blog post about getting WSPR up and running on his Ubuntu Intrepid box (thanks for [...]

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Oct
4

First QSO!

Jason Milldrum on October 4th, 2008

WIIGII! Tonight I had my first QSOs with the new station! I was considering CW but I was feeling a bit sheepish about trying because I'm so out of practice right now. So I dragged out my homebrew sound card interface and homebrew CI-V level converter and hooked them up to the IC-718. A bit [...]

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Sep
25

Configuring the Avnet Spartan-3A Eval Board on Linux (Alpha)

Jason Milldrum on September 25th, 2008

As I mentioned on the Avnet Spartan-3A Eval Kit Google Group, I've created a C program that will allow you to configure the FPGA via your Linux box. I don't have a lot of time to elaborate on how to use this program, but the basic steps are listed below. These instructions assume that you [...]

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Jul
7

Programming AVR Microcontrollers in Eclipse

Jason Milldrum on July 7th, 2008

Lately, I have been using my Ubuntu Hardy Heron box for coding and programming my AVR projects using the simple combination of gedit, the avr-gcc toolchain and the USBtinyISP. It's a little bit of a pain to get set up correctly, but it works very well once it's up and running. I've been pretty happy [...]

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