My new antenna system @-37.7, 144.9

Four half wave vertically polarised balanced dipole antennas. 75 ohm coaxial feed into my radio shack. Wavelengths supported are:

WavelengthFrequencyLabelNotesStatus
2m150MhzblackGood SWR at 146.450MhzFunctional
0.7m428MhzredGood SWR at 170MhzNeeds hardware check
0.62m483MhzwhiteNeeds hardware check
0.27m1111MhzyellowADSBNot fully wired up

Currently working fine on 146Mhz, with the other frequncies to come. It uses 6mm mains earth cable for elements, inside 25mm electrical conduit.

Mast is from a sabre sailing boat.

My pi-top

Looks like I got my pi-top just in time because its a retired product now. It uses a Pi 3, and those are hard to find as well. I am using a PI 3 B+, which is a pretty fast machine. I run debian with FVWM as its desktop. I only use it for development, with nedit and a terminal.

This is the machine I take to work. I use it on the train both ways mainly. I use mercurial as my VCS and store repos on my EC2 instance.

The FVWM config is here

@-38.6, 145.7

Hattah railway station. @-34.7,141.9

Fun fact: Hattah is down the road from Nangiloc and Colignan.

Cristina Donà - Wuthering Heights.

I love the Kate Bush version but after 40 years I am so bored with it. Glad this one came along.

Sisters of Mercy Convent, Ipoh, 2006. @4.6, 101.1

Cockatoos love my wallnut tree

Some articles posted here for the record

Why roads are safer for bicycles.