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Hello and welcome to Episode #519 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this deep dive episode, the hosts discuss more than one topic that need a bit of exploration. Those topics include: the upcoming JOTA/JOTI scouting event on the air and Internet, the LHS Minecraft server, Ubuntu 23.10 and iVentoy. Thank you for listening and we hope you have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

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Spin the Random Topic Wheel (Segment 1)

• The Worst Thing About Amateur Radio

This Weekend in Hedonism (Segment 2)

• Cheryl’s Recipe Corner!

• Chicken Enclilada Soup

• Description

• Happy fall!  I’m a HUGE fan of soup (Russ, not-so-much) and this is one of my favorite soups… so I’m sharing it with you today!

• Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons ground cumin separated

• 2 teaspoons garlic powder separated

• 1 teaspoon chili powder

• 1 teaspoon paprika

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• 1/2 large white onion diced

• 1 4oz. can green chilis

• 1 cup red enchilada sauce

• 6 cups chicken broth

• 1/2 cup masa harina + more if you need it*

• 4 oz. cream cheese softened and cut into cubes

• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

• Directions

• First, add 1 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, and 1 teaspoon chili powder into a bowl and mix.  Sprinkle the chicken breasts with the spices. Be sure the chicken breasts are fully coated. Heat a large pot or dutch oven over medium/high heat. Add olive oil. When olive oil is fragrant, add the chicken breasts to the pot and brown on both sides for about 1-2 minutes. Remove from the pot. Add onions and ¼ teaspoon of salt to the pot and sauté for 3-4 minutes. Next, toss the green chilis with the onion and add the chicken back into the pot. Pour the chicken broth into the pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Turn heat to low and simmer the chicken for 5-7 minutes or until fully cooked (when the internal temperature is 165ºF). Remove chicken from the pot and shred the chicken with two forks. Set aside. Carefully, remove 2 cups of hot broth from the pot using a measuring cup and add the broth to a bowl. Whisk 1/2 cup of the masa harina into the hot broth. The mixture will thicken very quickly. Add the thickened broth to the pot and whisk into the onion and broth mixture. Add the paprika,1 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon garlic, remaining salt, enchilada sauce and shredded chicken to the pot and mix until combined. Heat the soup over medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure that nothing sticks to the bottom of the pot. After 20 minutes, remove the pot from the heat and add the cream cheese cubes to the soup and stir until it is melted and combined. Sprinkle the cheddar cheese into the soup and whisk until the cheddar cheese melts. Serve the soup with tortilla strips and a sprinkle of cheddar cheese.

• Tips & Notes

• Masa harina is the thickening agent used for this soup, start off with using just 1/2 cup and if you would like a thicker soup add a little more at a time at the end until the soup reaches desired consistency.

• Cheryl’s Mixed Drink Corner

• Nightmare on Bourbon Street

• Description

• With fall, comes… Halloween!  And I love all the “spooky” cocktails that folks have come up with!  This is one of the more tasty ones, that is easy to whip up!

• Ingredients

• Cinnamon sugar, for rim (optional)

• 1 1/2 ounces bourbon

• 1 ounce fresh lemon juice

• 1/4 cup apple cider

• 1-2 teaspoons real maple syrup - more or less to taste

• 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger (or 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger)

• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 5 ounces sparkling hard apple cider

• Cinnamon sticks, Rosemary, and apple slices, for serving (if desired)

• Directions

• Rim a cocktail glass with cinnamon sugar (if desired). Fill with ice. In a cocktail shaker, combine the bourbon, cider, lemon juice, maple syrup, ginger, and cinnamon, shake to combine. Strain into the prepared glass. Top with hard cider. Serve with cinnamon sticks, rosemary, and apple slices, if desired.

• Russ’s Drink Corner

• Ardbeg Uigeadail SMSW

• Description

• Uigeadail is Gaelic for “a dark, mysterious place.” Named after the distillery’s water source, this whisky is a marriage of sweetness, spice and deep smokiness. The peat-laden waters of Loch Uigeadail provide the smoky tones in this whisky, while maturation in ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks imparts rich, warm flavours – perfect for a dramatic, stormy night. But the true secret behind Ardbeg Uigeadail’s success? A unique vatting method that marries the deep, smoky notes from ex-bourbon American oak with the luscious, raisin-like character of ex-sherry Oloroso casks.

• Details

• Mashbill: 100% malted barley

• Proof: 108.4 (54.2% ABV)

• Region: Islay, Scotland

• Color: Medium caramel

• Nose: Campfire smoke, walnuts, pine needles, lemon zest, chocolate covered raisins, vanilla frosted white cake, toffee, hints of leather

• Taste: Vanilla sweetness, baking spices, salty honey-glazed ham, hickory smoke, coffee, aged leather, cigar leaf

• Finish: Light smoke, aromatic wood, honey, molasses, hints of roasted coffee beans and raisins

• Price: $105 (750ml)

• Rating: 96

• Bill’s Whatever Corner

• Highland Park 12

Segment 3 (Announcements & Feedback)

• Show Topic Suggestions

• We are running low on Weekender topics. If you have any ideas or any topics you’d like to hear us fumble on about, please send them our way.

• AF0SS Check-in Net

• If we start a check-in and AMA (Ask Me Anything) net, what day of the week and time would you like to see it? Or would it be better if it were pre-show? Please let us know!

Segment 4 (New Subscribers, New Supporters & Live Participants)

• Facebook

• Danilo Nasca

• The Kamala QRPer Minimalism

• Chuck Chivers

• Jay Charles Reid

• Twitter

• @R12345S678

• Mastodon

• @Tsmetana

• @gm5aug

• Discord

• MysterAitch

• Live Chat

• Tony, K4XSS

• Don, KB2YSI

• Steve, KJ5T

• Ted, WA0EIR

• Darren, VK6EK

Welcome to the 517th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss various topics including: blogs.radio, a new ham radio information aggregator, JOTA/JOTI, SDRdock, the upcoming Ubuntu release, LMDE 6 and much more. Thank you for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

Hello and welcome to Episode 516 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this deep dive episode, the hosts interview Aaron, the creator and maintainer of DragonOS about software-defined radios: applications, setup, usage and the new RTL-SDRv4. Additional information about DragonOS is also provided straight from the author's mouth. Thank you for listening and we hope you have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

Spin the Random Topic Wheel (Segment 1)

• Your Favorite Movie(s) and Why

This Weekend in Hedonism (Segment 2)

• Cheryl’s Recipe Corner!

• Ice Cream Bread

• Description

• Dust off those 1970’s cookbooks, because this quick bread has made a comeback on TikTok!  You can use ANY flavor of ice cream (just make sure it’s not low-fat or sugar free).  Obviously vanilla is just going to a neutral sweeter bread, whereas if you use something like Butter Pecan, Lemon, Cherry, Strawberry, etc you’ll have more zip to it!  Feel free to add some spices (cinnamon, zests, etc) to even further enhance your bread!

• Ingredients

• 2 cups Ice Cream

• 1 1/2 cups SELF RISING flour

• Directions

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees (F) (175 C).  Grease and flour (or line with parchment) a loaf pan.  Mix ice cream and flour in bowl just until flour disappears.  Pour mixture into prepared loaf pan and use a rubber spatula to spread out evenly.  Bake for 35-40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

• Cheryl’s Mixed Drink Corner

• Ice Cream Cocktail

• Description

• Since we’re in the ice cream mindset, let’s enjoy a tasty cocktail that uses ice cream!

• Ingredients

• 1 oz Vodka

• 1 oz White chocolate liqueur

• 1 oz Strawberry liqueur

• 3 Scoops Strawberry ice cream

• Sugar

• Straw

• Directions

• Rim edge of martini glass in coarse sugar.  To an ice filled glass add vodka, white chocolate liqueur and strawberry liqueur.  Shake well to combine.  Add three scoops of strawberry ice cream to martini glass and pour mix over top.  Garnish with a strawberry

• Russ’s Drink Corner

• Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey

• Description

• Single barrels are a rarity in the world of American rye whiskey, and Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel Rye delivers in a big way. Each hand-selected barrel of our Kentucky straight rye whiskey is individually bottled at 104 proof and non-chill filtered to retain the color and rich flavor that comes from aging in No. 4 alligator char barrels.?

• Details

• Mashbill: 95% rye, 5% malted barley

• Proof: 104 (52% ABV)

• Region: Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, United States

• Color: Rich amber

• Nose: Lemon, vanilla, and spicy oak with notes of orange peel and ginger

• Taste: Pepper, vanilla, salted caramel and tobacco flavors

• Finish: Sweetened pear candy, toasted bread and peppercorn, black licorice

• Price: $65 (750ml)

• Rating: 92

Segment 3 (Announcements & Feedback)

• Show Topic Suggestions

• We are running low on Weekender topics. If you have any ideas or any topics you’d like to hear us fumble on about, please send them our way.

• LinuxFest Northwest October 20-22, 2023

Segment 4 (New Subscribers, New Supporters & Live Participants)

• Facebook

• Ralph Scable

• Thomas Bentley

• David Enteles

• Larry Holden

• Twitter

• @fleekix

• Mastodon

• @kj5amz

• Mailing List

• N9LWW

• Discord

• W3LDR-Rodney

• BarryVT

• Krak3n77

• Live Chat

• Tony - N0WJE

• Jon - K1BTZ

• Steve - KA7HVT

• Ted - WA0EIR

• Darren - VK6EK

Hello and welcome to Episode #514 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss several stories including hacking trains with radio, new satellite launches, solar eclipse research, ZFS, Bodhi Linux and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew