The View from Prospect Hill
I spent a little bit of time up on Prospect Hill in Waltham today. (I wrote about its history a bit ago here.) Here’s a …
Equilux
I noticed that our sunrise today was at 6:37am, while sunset is 6:35pm — just under 12 hours. We also just experienced the fall equinox, …
FM DX
I somehow stumbled my way into reading about FM DXing — DX of broadcast FM stations. In doing so, I came across https://servers.fmdx.org/ with a …
Concord River, Lowell Drone Video
This was the last footage I have from before the river (and my hubris) claimed the drone…
Lowell Folk Fest 2026
I spent a bit of time at the Lowell Folk Festival this past weekend. I decided to bring only my 85mm f/1.8 lens, and let …
Great Blue Heron
I just moved this site over to use DigitalOcean Spaces for storage, vs. the limited space at my webhost. Clearly, this means: I should post …
ATGP Report from GRYLCK-11
This year I took part in the Appalachian Trail Golden Packet (ATGP) event, from atop Mt. Greylock in Western Massachusetts. ATGP is an annual event …
Miscellaneous Junk
For local hams, I have a few things free to a good home. Lowband Syntor X9000 I have had this for several years thinking I’d …
SondeHub
Some fellow hams recently got me interested in radiosonde tracking, with SondeHub being one of the sites for tracking them. What’s a radiosonde, you might …
W3AXL’s NetConsole2
I want to get back to doing short little posts about interesting stuff I come across. And here’s a great example: https://github.com/W3AXL/RadioConsole2 — screenshot from …