ARRL Field Day 2025 is now in the history books. The Red River Radio Amateurs once again activated W0ILO as class 3A from the Cass County Highway Department in West Fargo, N.D. We had 22 folks on our sign-in sheet at the end of the event, including some who were visiting us for the first time to see what ham radio was all about. A big thank you to Chuck, KE0MW, for doing a great job with our media outreach during the event.

FT-950 Sound Card Data Cable The Yaesu FT-950 has an audio interface port in the rear that makes it really easy to interface into a sound card for FT8 or any other soundcard digital mode. The 950 uses a 6 pin Din connector for this. I was able to homebrew a cable from a Startech 6 foot PS/2 keyboard extension cable. Just cut the cable to your desired length and add audio connectors to the apporpriate wires.

I really like the weather, and I love knowing the the current conditions and forecast will be at a glance. The Adafruit PyPortal seemed like an ideal platform to make a desktop weather display. The PyPortal is relativley inexpensive, connects to your network via wifi, and is powered by Circuit Python. The code makes use of the free API from openweathermap.org.

Welcome! Hi, I’m Erica! Welcome to my new website. It’s been blank for quite a while but I have finaly had some time to work on it. This will mostly be a repository for personal projects and musings. This site itself is also one of my projects, as I am using it as an excuse to build it containerized and deploy it with a CI/CD pipeline. Thanks for stopping by.