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Hey, everyone. I’m spending the week in San Jose, California at the O’Reilly OSCON conference. Since OSCON is an Open Source convention and has a lot of information about Linux and Open Source, I thought I would bring our listeners a couple of updates from the con. We’ll call these supplemental episodes of Linux in the HAM Shack. The second one will be along in a couple of days. Hopefully this will provide a little insight into the conference experience, and I’m going to share as much useful information as I pick up with our listeners. Thanks for downloading, and look for our next live podcast on Tuesday, 7/28 at 8:00pm CDT.

73 de Russ, K5TUX

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].

While Richard is back home in Texas, I came out to San Jose, California for a week of “geeking out.” I’m attending the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, learning all I can about Ubuntu, Open Source licensing and patents, cloud computing, system tuning and monitoring and a whole lot more. I hope to put out a couple of short supplemental podcasts for Linux in the HAM Shack giving a little insite into my experiences here and tell a little bit about what I’ve learned.

As far as Episode #018 is concerned, Richard and I tackled a few questions from listeners. We spent a few minutes trying to keep our thoughts to ourselves about spam e-mail, managing to fail miserably. After that, we talk about some useful ham radio and other miscellaneous add-ons for Firefox that we hope our listeners will find useful. And when no other topics present themselves, our well-oiled machine moves onto an in-depth look at the virtual keyboard and mouse controller called Synergy.

We hope everyone enjoys this edition of the podcast and feels compelled to send in their comments, questions and suggestions for future episodes. Also, don’t forget to follow us individually and as a podcast on Twitter, and make sure to leave your audio comments at +1-888-455-0305 so we can include them in upcoming shows.

73 de Russ and Richard

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].

Series Two Episode Fourteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast.

News Stories include:-

• GeoParks special award available
• US Special Ops Command plans more airborne FM broadcasts
• Sky Sheppey 2009 - GB100SS
• 2009 Club Grant Scheme targets new projects
• More access to 7MHz frequencies
• Fred Johnson ZL2AMJ awarded Rutherford Trophy
• South African grey imports 
• Affordable PR-20 UT microphone from K9EID
• Apollo 11 Moon Landing -  40th Anniversary
• Easier D-Star contacts in Japan

Martin interviews Amateur Radio author Ian Poole, G3YWX, upcoming events and your feedback.

Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

Thanks to our wonderful listeners, we have some great feedback to go through in Episode #017 of Linux in the HAM Shack. After we attempt to address everyone’s comments and questions while trying to seem moderately intelligent doing it, I give a short informative segment on Java, Adobe Air and other virtual runtime environments. Then Richard gets down to it, giving a nice description of d-rats, a cross-platform D*STAR application written in Python by KK7DS.

Many thanks as always for subscribing to and downloading the podcast. Feel free to send us any feedback you may have, through e-mail and now through voice mail at +1-888-455-0305 or using the Skype IDs “LeadCrayon” or “KB5JBV”. We’d like to put your voice on the air. And most of you are hams out there, so we know you can do it. So until the next live <strike>fiasco</strike> episode, best regards and 73.

Russ and Richard

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].

Series Two Episode Fourteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast.

News Stories include:-

• WE5I on 6-meter AM
• OSCAR-7 YouTube video
• UK Amateur licences on the rise
• UK Government overlooks RAYNET
• RAYNET part of 2 Signal Brigade exercise
• Benin DXpedition
• Trans-Atlantic beacon
• Regulator considers 434 MHz camera control
• FM radio used in propaganda war
• The Secret Life of the Radio
• See the ISS in daylight!
• Ham radio's to meet emissions standards

Martin, M1MRB discuses the SSB MKARS80 kit with creator Steve Drury G6ALU

Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

Series Two Episode Thirteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast.

News Stories include:-

• New 2m Antenna at St Austell
• Amateur Radio Week in Texas
• 70 Years of Operating
• Mobile HF NVIS Magnetic Loop Antenna
• Icom Support International Year of Astronomy Special Event Station
• IC-7800 Firmware Update Rev. 2.20 Now Available
• New radio chip mimics human ear
• Confusing 4-letter suffix
• D-STAR growing in Melbourne
• Alleged spies, Morse code and shortwave radio
• Frank De Winne talks with Terbank School
• CARS make available new Intermediate slides
• D-STAR repeaters in Japan

Martin discusses Oscilloscopes, upcoming events and your feedback.

Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

Because Episode #015 was a bit late, this one is going to seem a bit early but actually it’s right on time. All it takes is a little perserverance and perspiration on my part and I can actually get these podcasts edited and released when they’re supposed to be. Imagine that.

As usual, we start out Episode #016 talking about feedback from listeners. We always love to hear what people are saying about us, and we especially like feeling useful when we can answer the questions that come from you. A comment from a listener leads us to our rather unusual topic for this episode: Windows. Now, before you tune out–we don’t actually talk about Windows directly. What we do instead is present all the ways in which we believe Linux is Windows’s equal, from ease of installing applications to productivity out of the box to support and development.

So as always we hope you enjoy this latest episode of Linux in the HAM Shack. Thanks for listening and 73 to all.

Russ (K5TUX)

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].