Back when I had an IC-7300, one of the things I lamented is that the display wasn’t bigger. I had heard about wfview, which is open-source software designed to control modern Icom radios, but I never did get around to installing it.

If you tried to work the Bouvet Island DXpedition, you heard some nasty deliberate interference (DQRM). Well, the Northern California DX Foundation has had enough. They’re going to be issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to address this problem.

Writing about an event like Hamvention is a daunting task, which is why I put off doing it. What I’ve decided to do is to cover it in several post instead of one big post. Here goes…