This is a repost  of a posting made in 2009. It is still as true today as it was then. I received an email a couple of hours ago to tell m...

They say that to err is human, to really foul things up you need a computer. And I have been fouling a lot of things up recently. The latest...

I never did find out what was causing Google Chrome to crash so much on my computer. However, after several months of using Chrome I foun...

I've not been doing much radio the last couple of weeks. I haven't been able to raise much enthusiasm. No doubt for those of you wit...

I'm still reconstructing my PC system after the disk got trashed. I didn't lose any important files nor my ham radio stuff. But many...

I have just trashed my shack PC. Not intentionally, you understand. I was trying to resolve a problem and the result was that the system has...

The home improvements have overrun. The shack is still full of the contents of two other rooms. I won't regain access to the PC and rad...

This morning when I started up Google Chrome and tried to log in to Gmail the page kept coming up "Gmail app unreachable". Curious...

Computers have the ability to raise my blood pressure to dangerous levels, but nothing causes quite so much stress as printers. Like most ho...

It's beginning to look as if my shack PC monitor is on the blink. Recently I have noticed that when the system comes back to life after ...

I just started up Google Chrome and my eye was caught by the minimize, maximize and close buttons in the title bar, which are bright red. ...

CheckSR result at 48kHz with internal sound card I have several radios connected to my shack PC. For the audio interfacing I have severa...

If you have been following my attempts to set up beacon monitoring using a software defined radio (SDR) then you may remember that I had fo...

Sometimes it seems as if half the posts in this blog relate to trouble with computers. After I got back from the hospital  today I thought...

I hope all of you had a very good Christmas. I was not very well a couple of days before the holiday. Nothing to do with my cancer, I'm...

After wasting most of the weekend trying to get it to work I have abandoned the idea of monitoring the IBP beacons using Faros. Although I d...

Picture from nextdayreprap.co.uk Jason, NT7S has just posted an article entitled " 3D Printed Enclosures " on his blog. As a h...

I left Faros running overnight. I needn't have bothered: Nothing whatever was heard on the bands 14 - 28MHz from 1730 yesterday until 07...

A few months ago I began using the No-IP Free service in order to be able to access my home network using a hostname or  fixed IP address....

Several times a week I have been on the brink of writing this. It's time to get it off my chest. I curse whoever it was that decided to ...