Make It Tea Blog
8 Post(s) for April 2026
| Diaries | 20/04/26 08:09 BST | John Pumford-Green | diary |
| Becoming Teetotal | 18/04/26 18:57 BST | John Pumford-Green | makeittea |
| Blogging Platforms | 18/04/26 18:35 BST | John Pumford-Green | pure, blog |
| Music - A Return To An Old Hobby | 18/04/26 17:18 BST | John Pumford-Green | music |
| Privacy ? | 18/04/26 13:34 BST | John Pumford-Green | |
| Finding Things In A Diary | 18/04/26 13:32 BST | John Pumford-Green | diary |
| Fairphone6 Screen | 18/04/26 13:29 BST | John Pumford-Green | |
| Comparison - The Thief Of Joy | 18/04/26 13:24 BST | John Pumford-Green | music, joy |
Arduino Project
I dabbled with Arduino to build some small projects back in 2021, mostly using the SI5351 PLL chip.
Soldersmoke
I've recently been revisiting the Soldersmoke Podcast. I remember listening to it in its early days, and on and off in the intervening years. I didn't realize that it's been running no for over 20 years!
Before I started to listen to the more recent episodes I thought I'd go back and find the early ones,
Shack To Makerspace
I used to have a radio-shack in the house, with component drawers on the walls, a filing cabinet to keep tools, parts, hardware etc.
I built things and operated radios.
Some QRSS Grabs
I ran the QMX in QRSS FSKCW at 1W on 30m this morning for an hour or so.
I saw my signal on 3 grabbers:
- LA5GOA : JO29oi, Visnes on Karmoy, Norway https://la5goa.manglet.net/grabber/
- SA6BSS : JO68sc, Sweden https://www.qsl.net/sa6bss/
- SO5CW : KO01mw, nr Warsaw, Poland https://fkurz.net/ham/qrss/
QRSS
I've been running my QMX on WSPR, using its DigiMode and the USB interface to a laptop running WSJT-X, when I'm not using for real QSOs.
But I got to thinking “is that all there is?”
