W4JDH

Radios, Musing, and Adjusting

by W4JDH
In about a month, I’ll have officially held an amateur radio license for 25 years. While the requirement to join the Quarter Century Wireless Association is to be in the 25th year since the date of your first licensing. Mine was in 1999, so I was eligible January 1. At that point, I was unsure ... Read More

Post Olympics Retrospective

by W4JDH
Well, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad have drawn to a close: it has been wonderful to watch as it happened, and it’s been 28 years since it took place in my hometown of Atlanta, GA, where I was able to go to the Global Olympic Village at Centennial Olympic Park during the Games. That ... Read More

The Journey of a Lifetime

by W4JDH
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, was my last permanent day in my company’s primary office. Thursday, March 21, 2024, was the last time I slept in the bed I’d slept in for the majority of my life. Friday, March 22, 2024, was the last time I left the house I’d lived in for 32 years. It’s ... Read More

The AWA Post, Ver. FINAL (Provisional)

by W4JDH
Well, it’s that time of the year again, though with a little bit of difference to it. You see, AWA is moving from the venue it has been for the last 20 years to the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta as well as moving for the first two years at this new venue ... Read More

Back on DreamHost for Now

by W4JDH
Last night, I moved my domains and their respective DNS hosting back to DreamHost until I can get settled elsewhere. I also put a ticket in with Coloblox that I wanted to derack my gear and discontinue service. It’s kind of bittersweet as not only am I going to have the gear deracked before this ... Read More

Short Term Update

by W4JDH
Well, last post I talked about downsizing a bit and mentioned my colocated servers. Well, one potential locale for my move is the Pacific Northwest, specifically Seattle or Bellingham in Washington State, so I did a little looking around and found a colocation facility that does per-server hosting in Tukwila, so that could serve as ... Read More

Downsizing

by W4JDH
Well, this is something I never wanted to talk about. My father has terminal cancer, and the home I’ve known for a very long time will be put on the market after he is gone, however long that takes, so I am starting to get my homelab reduced in size as far as I can ... Read More

APRS Fun!

by W4JDH
Hi folks! I’ve got a bit to report! I’ve been migrating my Linux servers to Debian from RHEL-derived distributions, and the last one to be migrated was the APRS node. I’ve had W4JDH-1 connected to APRS-IS for a long time: at least since 2011 and possibly earlier. For the longest time it was Xastir in ... Read More

The AWA Post, Vers. 2021 and 2022

by W4JDH
Yikes! It’s been ages since I wrote here… What today’s post will be is a combination of con reports for AWA in 2021 as well as last weekend’s 2022 edition. 2021 I wasn’t going to keep my hotel reservation until the Atlanta Braves made it to the World Series, which they eventually won. I’d initially ... Read More

CentOS 8 iGate

by W4JDH
Hey, the title rhymes! I spent the past couple of days getting most of my Linux VMs set up on CentOS 8: the two that aren’t are the PowerChute appliance and my UniFi Controller. One of the VMs was set up as an APRS iGate using Xastir on Fedora previously, so I had to come ... Read More