Hippie Bowls are roasted vegetables over a grain, topped with a lemon-hummus sauce. It’s become a once-a-week dinner because it’s sooooo easy to make and I love the tastes involve. Hippie Bowls: 2 heads-worth of broccoli florets 1 head-worth of…
Lemon ricotta pancakes
The original recipe is from Cook’s Illustrated, and is a pretty tasty diversion from the standard buttermilk pancake. To offset the weight of the ricotta, you fold in extra, whipped whites. Lemon ricotta pancakes (original source Cook’s Illustrated) 1 C…
Aash-e-Reshteh
Janet and I took the Persian Cuisine demo cooking class at the local hippie grocery store last week. I reproduced two of the recipes: Khoresh-e kadu Halvai-o Alu ba Morgh (Braised butternut squash and chicken stew with prunes and walnuts)…
Setting up FT8
(Updated 2019-03-28) First, download and install the latest distribution from the WSJT-X project page. The documentation is well-written and useful. The second release candidate features decoding improvements (a priori decoding) that increases the ability to work with weaker signals. It…
A month of QSOs
I’ve finished a month of QSOs and thought it’d be fun to look at the results. Early (5pm) in the evening, I can hear activity along the east coast, Mexico, and Cuba(!), but I am unable to get through. Not surprisingly,…
Fun with FT8
Setting up WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporting) was done in preparation for playing with the two-way digital communication modes. The set I was initially aiming for is JT9/JT65, named after Joe Taylor, for very short messages that can be received…