Tech Tuesday – Happy DOS-cember!

I will be the first to admit, when someone starts talking about retro computers, or retro games, I will go bananas. Why? Because I still have one foot firmly in the 80's and early 90's.  Why? Because I am a Commodork! Commodork /com-oh-dork/ noun 1. A person who is addicted to or a lover of …

Tech Tuesday – The House that M1 is Building

For transparency I am a former Apple Employee, but that doesn't change the fact that an AWS virtualization engineer, got Windows 10 running on a new Apple M1 Macbook Pro, and it was pretty damn snappy! Faster than Microsoft's Surface Pro, which is also ARM based, like Apple's M1 chips. The article published by ZDNet, …

Tech Tuesday – Save Your Fork, There’s Pi! (Reduex)

Back when I was doing the original Tech Tuesday on the radio station blogs, is about the time the first Raspberry Pi came out. And it really was a game changer! Inexpensive, small and powerful with a ton of features for the homebrewer and kit basher, as well as the all around loveable geeks like …

Tech Tuesday – Don’t Discount The Dipole

You know, a lot of times, I see people post on social media and ask other Ham Radio ops, "What's a good antenna to use?" That on the surface is a loaded question (Get it? Loaded? OK.. moving on.). It really depends on what bands you want to work, your space considerations, topography and a …

Tech Tuesday to Return

Back when I worked at Lite 98.7 and Q103, I published a weekly blog called Tech Tuesday. It's not hard to guess what it was about. It was about Tech and it came out on Tuesday, pretty straight forward, right? Well after I left Lite 98.7, and Q103 was kind enough to let me go …

First Post!

Well, here we are with the first post on the new website for the Troy 146.94 MHz Amateur Radio repeater on Bald Mountain. Serving the greater Capital Region. This repeater is also the flagship station for the This Week in Amateur Radio podcast, heard every Saturday night at 9pm Eastern. Give us some time while …