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Ham Radio / UT3UDX
Amateur radio: HF/VHF operating, weak-signal modes, antennas, propagation logs.
I’m an amateur radio operator. The hobby is the cleanest counterweight to day-job cloud work I’ve found: a long, narrow band of physics that doesn’t care about Kubernetes. Most of my time is on 20m and 40m SSB, with FT8 and CW when conditions are bad. 20m · SSB · 14.205 MHz
Station
Yaesu FTDX10 | |
Yaesu FT-891 |
| Antenna (HF) | Home made vertical 40m–10m, ~5 m above ground |
| Logger | CQRLOG (Linux) → ADIF → LoTW & QRZ |
| Logging machine | A small fanless mini-PC running Debian, syncs to my home Nextcloud |
Why
Radio is a way to keep talking to the physical world. Signals fade, the
ionosphere shifts at sunset, and you can’t kubectl rollout undo a bad
solar storm. It’s also a tradition — I’m one of millions on the bands
on any given evening, and the etiquette is good.