I wish I was still in Switzerland

Saddened to hear of the death of the legendary comic Stanley Baxter. From comedy films to large variety series to children's favourite Mr Majeika , Stanley was on our screens regularly for 30 years. Here Stanley plays 5 characters to show you how everyone loved the BBC Micro

Anyone taken amateur radio kit on a flight that's in a housed in home 3D printed case? Want to take my LoRa APRS tracker to Switzerland with me next week. Would be in my carry on bag #hamradio

Still not sorted a QSL card for my full licence. I passed that exam back in 2021! Will add to Christmas break to-do list. #hamradio #qsl

Not used @veeam.com for 7 years. Used it again this week - still remember it all. Amazing what you can recall when you need to.

Added a page to my site about the VOIP/SIP systems I am logged into www.m1ner.co.uk/voip-sip-sys... #hamradio #freestar #hoip

Picked up a PicoGUS soundcard today. Not had a chance to use it yet. An ISA sound card and CD-ROM emulator, powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico. PicoGUS can emulate Gravis UltraSound, Sound Blaster 2.0 / AdLib (OPL2) and more!

Ah, DMR code plugs. Oh how much I have missed you... #hamr #dmr #digital

Had a fantastic time in Riga. Back to the grindstone today…

When you run out of Velcro or cable ties, an old diode will do.

Had to block a callsign on my APRS digipeater. Was sending packets every few seconds. First time I have had to do that.

How are you spending your Sunday? I'm implementing pfsense at home. Need to arrange downtime with the family for implementation. Anyone else need to follow change control at home? :) #homelab #networking

GB3WZ – New 70cm FM Repeater for the Fens : www.m1ner.co.uk/gb3wz/

My Toshiba HX-10 MSX. From the range of 8bit machines I know the least about. #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

What is it with ham radio retailers and manufactures and free baseball caps? I'd rather have a discount or some kind of useful accessory! #rant

Curious to know any fellow hams who are experimenting with APRS over LoRa. What's the coverage like in the area you live in? Looks like we are quite lucky here in Cambridgeshire. #lora #aprs #hamradio

Who knows what I’m playing? #RetroGaming #PC

It's just over three months until this year's Retro Computer Festival! This time it's the Gaming Edition and we want YOU to get involved. Do you write computer games, or did you back in the day? Or do you develop tools or hardware? We're looking for more exhibitors for our Games Dev room ... 1/2

Day 208 - #retrorandom - I don't need your fancy GEM or Workbench. I'm perfectly happy with Broomsoft's WIMP running on my Dragon 64 thank you! It's actually perfectly usable, but of course there's very little software for it ... 1/2

I’m now a EV owner. MG4 Trophy Long Range. I’m enjoying it so far! #ev

When you ask a chav why it’s not raining. #linux #sysadmin

Hello BlueSky! And let's make our first post about one of our great events - The Amiga at 40. Come and join us for a weekend of fun, with great exhibitions from throughout the scene for a weekend of celebrating all things Amiga. See you there! www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/73894/Th...

New radio! Racial Cougar converted for 4m band. . #hamr

One of my LoRa APRS tracker nodes in front of the wife’s York ghosts.

Dilemma - do I remove the label or not? #RetroComputing #Acorn #Atom

When you are in conversation at work and you suddenly remember Microsoft Antigen. It’s been a very long time since I have thought about Antigen. Im kinda glad it doesn’t exist anymore.

Spotted in the Milton Keynes Gallery cafe earlier 😎

What’s the obsession with free baseball caps with a new amateur radios? For me it’s just junk that’ll end up in the bin.

Huh. Another @raspberrypi.com 3 A+ dead for no apparent reason. That’ll be why my APRS digi went offline.

Phoar….. I really wanted this kind of stuff in the 90s. Finally achieved it in 2025.

Someone game me 2 dead Yamaha MU50 tone generators today. I now have 1 working MU50! Really good sound quality! Faulty 7805 and an iffy power socket.

What am I up to now? #retrocomputing

Made a start on a repository of Amateur Radio software for the BBC Micro. I'll be uploading more files over the next few days. retro.m1ner.co.uk/bbc-amateur-...

Got myself one of those cheap PoC network radio thingy. Running Zello.

I built a fluorescent green breadbin, which I am selling to raise funds for the Retro Computer Museum, Leicester. 100% of the proceeds will go towards their clean-up effort. I would be grateful for any shares, even if they're just to say "Eew." 😀

LoRa APRS T-Deck built and ready for some testing. Let’s see if the generic quad lock attachment works! #lora #aprs #hamr #data #lilygo

I pity the fool! #retrogaming #amstrad #ateam #8bit

Amateurs in the UK - what is your DMR network of choice for your hotspot? #hamradio #dmr #digital

Spending a long weekend in Tallin, Estonia. Going on a day trip to Helsinki in Finland today. So that’s 2 new countries I have visited added to the list.

3 days until my trip to Estonia. Can’t wait!

Starting to build a picture of the common routes, in my reception range, myself and others that are using 439MHz LoRa trackers take.

20000mAh power bank from Amazon. Let’s see how it performs.

That’s the Amstrad PC1512 fully working with a couple of additions. Never had the original mouse for it. I can now use a USB mouse. Has SD card storage for hard disk and floppy disk emulation. Ad-lib audio.

When you see this Amazon ad and the first thing you see is a LAN adapter with a BNC connection.

Black on green looks weird. Let’s hope the power regulator swap and ZX-WESPI install don’t break it!

First time seeing snow on a UK beach yesterday.