So, uh, youtube happened again. Looking back at my old history on the yaldest, I get the impression I’m pretty good at this youtube thing. I’ll do more of it.

Tom and I were happy to announce the first 57N Stupid Shit No One Needs Hackathon last week. I maintain he forced me to send the email, but I kind of enjoyed adding my stuff to it. It turned out to be a really cool weekend of creating for the sake of creating, which I’ve not done for aaaaaaages. I wanted to make a BBS door game to tie into my mysterious BBS project, so I made FuelSim - the dynamic, exciting game which places you into the mysterious, unexplored world of an Andorran fuel station. …

Yeah, yeah yeah I’ve been busy. I’ve been working on lots and I’ve not been blogging. My buddy yakamo tells me I’m bad because I don’t blog enough. I agree, yeah, but I can’t be bothered detailing everything I do down to an exacting level because I’ve got shit to do. So you should probably meet my wiki, who lives at foxk.it - it’s a way to keep myself a bit more organised. At the moment it’s mostly radio and notes to myself. …

WOW I HAVE SO MANY RADIO THINGS TO TALK ABOUT! There’s been lots rolling about inside my head recently, mostly related to radio. I’m doing lots of wee things in the exciting world of amateur radio to fill my time as summer hits. I’m focussing mostly on packet radio and digital modes, and have done various vaguely interesting things over the last month or two. TCP/IP over AX.25 This is a thing that happened with Iain / 2M0STB in mid march. Using our testbed setup of a Yaesu FT-7900 and FT-817, we invoked the magic of soundcard modems (Direwolf and Soundmodem) to make the magic of modern networking happen over a 1200 baud AFSK link. …

Having been curious for a while, I’ve decided it’s time to start properly playing in the world of packet radio. Not just APRS, though - that’s a ‘solved problem’, and quite simple to get a quick hang of. My main station radio that lives in the hackerspace is a Yaesu FT-7900, and it’s a lovely piece of kit. I’ve got a data cable with proper, separate PTT and audio out/in. It’s got a 9600baud mode as well, so hopefully I can get faster data once all of this has been set up. …