Show Notes #278: The Weekender XXVI

This Weekend in Amateur Radio (Segment 1)

  • Announcements
  • Deep Dive Episode Suggestions
  • Hamvention 2019 Campaign
  • YouTube Channel
  • 1,000 Twitter Followers Contest
  • LHS Ham Radio Challenge
  • Try using JTAlarm or AlarmeJT with your WSJT-X installation next time you're out trying to work DXCC on FT-8.

This Weekend in Open Source (Segment 2)

  • LHS Open Source Challenge
  • Contact any of the LHS hosts via JS8Call in the next fortnight. That'd be swell!

This Weekend in Hedonism (Segment 3)

  • Cheryl's Recipe Corner!
  • Peanut Chicken Stir Fry
  • Ingredients
    • 1/2 cup water
    • 1/4 cup peanut butter
    • 3 tablespoons soy sauce
    • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
    • 2 to 3 garlic cloves, minced
    • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
    • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
    • 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cubed
    • 3 cups fresh broccoli florets
    • 1 cup shredded carrots
    • 1 cup bean sprouts
    • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
    • 1 tablespoon water
    • Hot cooked rice or noodles
    • Optional: Tofu, sriracha
  • Directions
    • In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup water, peanut butter, soy sauce and brown sugar until smooth; set aside. In a skillet or wok, stir-fry garlic in sesame and vegetable oils for 30 seconds. Add the chicken; stir-fry for 5 minutes or until no longer pink. Add the broccoli, carrots and bean sprouts; stir-fry for 5 minutes. Stir in the peanut butter mixture; cook and stir for 2-3 minutes or until sauce is smooth and broccoli is crisp-tender. Combine cornstarch and remaining water until smooth; gradually add to skillet. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with rice or noodles, and garnish with peanuts if desired.
  • Russ's Drink Corner
  • Smooth Ambler Old Scout American Whiskey
  • Description
    • Old Scout American Whiskey is a union of two whiskies distilled from classic bourbon mash bills. One is aged in new oak barrels and the other matures in rejuvenated, re-charred bourbon casks. While this unique aging excuses the marriage from being called bourbon, it shares all of the character and drinkability you would expect from a whiskey on the brink of being one. Like the other Old Scout whiskeys, it is blended in limited, hand selected batches and without chill filtration.
  • Details
    • Mashbill: 36% Rye (Others undisclosed)
    • ABV: 49.5% (99 Proof)
    • Region: West Virginia (grains from Tennessee and elsewhere)
    • Color: Light amber
    • Nose: Green apple, butter cake, hint of dark roast coffee, graham crackers, hint of rye spice
    • Taste: Baking spices, Swedish gingerbread (pepparkakor), oak, sweet corn, a hint of mint, rye dryness on the tongue
    • Finish: Long fade of pepparkakor and a touch of oak bitterness fading into vanilla, mint and dry spice
    • Price: $35 (750ml)
    • Rating: 85

Show Notes #277: Nano Nano

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Segment 1 (Lead Topic)

  • Hamvention 2019

Segment 2 (Amateur Radio)

  • ISRO to Launch Emisat on April 1st with Amateur Radio Payload
  • Puerto Rico Lures Tech Devs as Hurrican Season Looms

Segment 3 (Open Source)

  • Microsoft Calculator benefits from Open Source (go figure)

Segment 4 (Linux in the Ham Shack)

Segment 5 (Social Media Roundup)

  • Facebook
    • Ron Smith
    • Fred Cole
    • Liam Burke
    • Doug Howard
  • Twitter
    • @allen_d_moore
    • @small_IT
    • @poltergeist
    • @blue_sk1es
    • @kudzuacura
    • @kc4gfw
    • @jdetke
    • @JP7QQL
  • YouTube
    • Dennis Oszuscik
  • Merchandise Sales
    • Paul Griffith

Show Notes #276: Logical Volume Management Deep Dive

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Segment 1 (Deep Dive)

  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

Segment 2 (Announcements & Feedback)

  • Hamvention 2019 Campaign
  • Eyeball QSO
  • Write-Up of LHS by Randy, WU2S, in the Fair Lawn ARC Resonator
  • Comment on Episode #272 from Norman, KC9NVN
  • Comment on Episode #266 from Pierre, VE2HS
  • E-mail from Gene, BX8AAD

Show Notes #275: The Weekender XXV

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This Weekend in Amateur Radio (Segment 1)

  • Announcements
  • Still looking for topics for Deep Dive episodes. We have received some great responses but please continue to send us your thoughts.
  • Hamvention 2019 campaign (Zydeco's for dinner)
  • Google AdSense!
  • YouTube channel.
  • 1,000 Twitter followers contest
  • OARS Hamfest
  • LHS Ham Radio Challenge
  • Attempt to locate the LHS co-host's QSL cards on the Last Man Standing "Wall of Shame."

This Weekend in Open Source (Segment 2)

  • LHS Open Source Challenge
  • Try building an amateur radio application from source, even if you're already using a packaged version.

This Weekend in Hedonism (Segment 3)

  • Cheryl's Recipe Corner!
  • Killer Meatloaf
  • Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
  • 3/4 - 1 cup crushed buttery round crackers (be creative- Cheese-Its or other crackers work well, too!)
  • 1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup Minced Onion
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/4 cup ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons steak sauce (or use BBQ, worcestershire- whatever you like!)
  • THIN sliced baconBrewer's Notes
  • A few slices of bread
  • Directions
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Stir the ground beef, crushed crackers, Cheddar cheese, and onion in a large bowl until well combined. Whisk the eggs, ketchup, and steak sauce in a separate bowl until smooth. Mix the egg mixture into the meat until evenly combined, if the mixture seems too dry, add a little water. Put bread slices in bottom of pan to help absorb grease (throw away after loaf is done cooking!).  Form mixture into a loaf, drape bacon pieces over it- and place into a 9x5 inch loaf pan.  Apply glaze. Bake in preheated oven until the meatloaf reaches 160 degrees F and is no longer pink in the center, 45 to 60 minutes.
  • Glaze Ingredients
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons prepared mustard
  • 1/3 cup ketchup
  • Glaze Directions
  • Mix together well.  Put 1/2 on before baking.  Put other 1/2 on about halfway through the baking time.
  • Russ's Drink Corner
  • Isaac Bowman SBW Finished in Port Barrels
  • Description
  • The whiskey is aged in new, charred American white oak barrels. No age statement is on the bottle but it's reported to be around five years. The finishing port barrels originate in Virginia and Portugal, made from American and French Limousin oak. The whiskey is aged around six months before being blended into the final product.
  • Details
  • Mashbill: Unknown
  • ABV: 46% (92 Proof) 
  • Region: Fredericksburg, Virginia
  • Color: Slightly reddish mahogany
  • Nose: Dark fruit (plum), vanilla wafers, milk chocolate, soft pepper spice
  • Taste: Baked bread, dark cherry, plum, fruitcake, light oak, light pepper spice
  • Finish: Bourbon vanilla and port notes and light spice, relatively short but pleasant.
  • Price: $39 (750ml)
  • Rating: 89
  • Bill's Whatever Corner
  • Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Imperial IPA
  • ABV: 7.5% (15 Proof)
  • IBU: 75
  • Brewer's Notes
  • Our Imperial IPA is the perfect bridge between Northwest and Northeast styles. It’s an in your face hop-forward beer with balanced bitterness. We use CTZ, Mosaic, and Idaho 7 hops to create tropical notes of fresh cut mango and floral flavors which rounds out the beer with a slight haze for a smooth mouth feel. 
  • Cost:  $7 (WinCo)

Show Notes #274: JS8Coin

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Segment 2 (Amateur Radio)

  • Ready to Launch, NASA: UVA Satellite is A-OK
  • Service Authority Signs MOU With Amateur Radio Group
  • First Bitcoin Lightning Payment Sent via Radio Waves

Segment 3 (Open Source)

  • PureOS: One Linux for PCs and Smartphones
  • Linux 5.1 May Support PMEM as System RAM
  • HL7 Standards Could Open Health IT Infrastructure to Attacks
  • How to Install OpenVAS on Ubuntu 18.04
  • Audacity 2.3.1 released

Segment 4 (Linux in the Ham Shack)

  • ExTiX - The Ultimate Linux System
  • LHS Readiness:  4.3
  • KLog 0.9.7.1 Released
  • SharpCAT - C#, .NET Standard based CAT control library

Segment 5 (Social Media Roundup)

  • New Patreons
  • Randolph Smith
  • New Subscriptions
  • Fred Cole
  • Randolph Smith
  • Facebook
  • Dave Bachman
  • Matthew Ratsel
  • Dave Lewis
  • George Eid
  • Mike Baxter
  • Brian Markland 
  • David Lauer
  • George Meleski
  • Dennis Adams
  • Johnathan Knapp
  • Bob West
  • Twitter
  • @KA6LMS
  • @easylog5
  • @wa4ilo
  • @wcmcmullen
  • @offtrailyeti
  • @DJ6KR
  • @kn4orb
  • @funyun
  • @princedimond
  • @BobGeisel
  • @gekeian
  • @wa4gsd
  • @THEHAMFEST
  • @dopeshitnetwork
  • @floodgate
  • @JDHiggs64
  • @valdal14
  • @D4C_team
  • @philshapiro
  • @ernieJohnston
  • @pilotjer
  • @GregRog86957875
  • @Stepnjump1
  • YouTube
  • Emmanuel Cruz
  • Alex Gerkin
  • Dave Ramirez
  • John Trice
  • raccoonnyc
  • Carlo Corbari
  • Luc Sampers