The ARRL 2021 Annual Board Meeting will be held Friday/Saturday, January 15-16, 2021. Today, I received the meeting agenda by email. (You can get the agendas, too, by logging into the ARRL website and going to https://www.arrl.org/Users/edit#!/edit-info-email_subscriptions.) I must say, though, that this is the least informative of any agendas that I’ve ever received.

After I replaced the cheap laptop I was using for logging and other shack type stuff with a refurb HP Elite desktop computer, I began using the laptop as an Arduino development system. Of course, the features that made it a pain to use for logging and running other ham apps, mostly being incredibly slow, made it kind of a pain for using to program Arduinos.

Well, a couple of months ago, I broke down and bought a Raspberry Pi 4 to use in the shack. I bought a “starter kit” that included a power supply, a case (with a fan), heatsinks that attach to the chips on the board, and an SD card. It was all pretty much plug and play.