VK7HSE Ramblings

Category: Nonprofit

  • Home Network Redesign

    So after many years (almost ten) of having all my networking hardware sitting on top of my old IBM eServer, it was finally time to tidy it up and reduce some ambient fan noise in the room. So the motivation for this was really the latter part, as there’s a few things in my computer/radio […]

  • Still Nothing of Maisie 😢

    It’s now been 16 days since Maisie disappeared. We’ve done two letterbox drops of the street and I’ve been searching the local tracks close to our house and I’ve found nothing. No clumps of fur on the ground, no blood trails, it’s just like she vanished. Although I will never stop looking for Maisie, it’s […]

  • Nextion 3.5 screen for Hotspots

    I’ve used Pi-star now for around a year and a half. The first screen I used with the Zumspot was a 0.96″ OLED screen (I thought it was awesome!) but after a while I started seeing other amateur radio guys were using the Nextion screen/s These are an amazing piece of equipment they run on […]

  • Ten Years with WordPress!

    So a thing happened… It all started from reading Linux magazine that had a feature article on WordPress and well I must liked it cause I’m still using it! Originally I was hosting my own website from home, but after quite a few years I then moved to hosting with Gandi and its lived there […]

  • LED Tea Light

    With Xmas not far away I’d ordered some LED tea Lights for the wife to make some decorations to give away to the family.  I was interested to find out what was driving the LED, but because all the candles were required I was not able to autopsy one to find out.  This got me […]

  • Migrating to HTPPS

    Over the next coming weeks I’ll be gradually updating old blog posts to be fully compliant to https, Should I find anything that can’t be done then depending on the content I’ll most like just delete it! For now I’ve forced a redirect from http to https at the server level, hence why some content […]

  • Raspberry PiZero

    I managed to get my hands on the much sought after Raspberry PiZero the smallest of the Raspberry Pi line. The PiZero was release with edition number 40 of the MagPi Magazine that included the PiZero board for free! (well you had to buy the magazine!) but now 3rd party distributors have limited stock and […]

  • New Domain Name

    I’m currently in the process of transferring my self hosted server to Gandi (domain and hosting) so there’s going to be some content that will no longer be available. I’m used to hosting my own server and have enjoyed it for the last 9 years but the costs of running gear and maintaining it has […]

  • Pictures of Pi

    RasPi 1 is T2TAS (APRSC) aka VK7HSE-1/4 (APRX) This is the Raspberry Pi Model B RasPi 2 is currently setup with Ras Pi Cam Control keeping an eye on the server room! This is the Raspberry Pi Model B+ RasPi 3 is this blog (vk7hse.org) and email.  This is the Raspberry Pi 2 model B

  • Raspberry Pi(s) Online

    I’ve finally got around to completing the transfer of data for my Website, Email, File server, T2TAS & APRS iGate/Digi services. I’m using a model B for the APRS duties with the VHF port using TNCPi kiss tnc and still using the old faithful PK-232MBX & USB to serial converter for the HF port. For the website […]