The digital edition of QEX is now available as part of a standard ARRL subscription ( http://www.arrl.org/news/the-may-june-digital-issues-of-qex-and-ncj-are-now-available). Pretty cool news!

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I hope everyone is keeping busy and entertained!

I posted a few links to some interesting radio things I found: https://hackerific.net/2020/04/15/radio-links-1-april-2020/

Things like this cool glowing mini antenna: https://circuitsalad.com/2020/02/13/simple-low-current-mini-whip-antenna/

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Here’s a fun Dockerfile:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16296753/can-you-run-gui-applications-in-a-docker-container

Running GUI apps in a container using xvfb + vnc 👌

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Virtual Machines for iOS: https://getutm.app/ this could be awesome if it gets off the ground.

iSH is already fun and useful https://ish.app/ but it’ll be good to see what’s possible on locked down apple hardware.

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Hacking cheap GPS radios to make a long range mesh: https://www.meshtastic.org/

I hadn’t seen these ESP32 based GPS modules before: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000119152086.html

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This cool projects adds USB-C to TS100 soldering irons (by replacing the PCB):

https://github.com/Jan–Henrik/Otter-Iron

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jan–Henrik/Otter-Iron/master/images/4.jpg

Looks cool.

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Hahaha, the TLS 1.2 RFC was written by people from “RTFM, Inc.” https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5246.html

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This powerpole PDU looks cool:

https://hackaday.io/project/170493-anderson-power-distribution

Very similar to the sotabeams version but there’s probably not much in the way of obvious variations to make.

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Yay Sprat! I have a nice stack of radio magazine now, perfect for when I start to go stir crazy.

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This book on SDR from Pragmatic Programmers looks like it might be good: https://pragprog.com/book/wdradio/explore-software-defined-radio fairly cheap while it’s in beta, and pragprog is a really good + DRM free publisher.

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