Polishing doorknobs Last week I wrote about making SMTP actually work [https://kn6q.org/making-smtp-work-in-2020/] beyond just the technical part of sending an SMTP message with an e-mail server, and I wrote about fixing certificates [https://kn6q.org/certificates-re-examined/]. As you might guess, it's because I went through this (again) recently, moving
New Ham in the House - KI5HXT This weekend, at the 2020 Cowtown Hamfest [http://www.cowtownhamfest.com/] , my son passed the Technician Exam at the test session there conducted by the W5YI Volunteer Examiners [http://www.w5yi-vec.org/]. It wasn't his first try at the test, and he was super excited and proud he had accomplished
Updated site to Ghost 3.0 I've updated kn6q.org to Ghost 3.0 - first major upgrade that didn't totally trash the site (yea!) The Theme was not 100% compatible with Ghost 3.0 (although I didn't see anything terribly broken -yet). I've updated the theme to pass the compatibility checker 100% and tweaked a
Azle Troop 243 new Webpage At the end of last year, I made a new webpage for Azle Boy Scout Troop 243. It's on a (different) free web host ( https://www.awardspace.com/free-hosting/ ), so it's not the fastest and I can't do SSL certificates with it. I used Wordpress and a free Scouting template
Featured Fort Worth Diocese Catholic Committee on Scouting Mid last year, I took over as Webmaster of the Fort Worth Diocese Catholic Committee on Scouting. Late last November, I moved them from an old proprietary web platform they were on to a new hosting provider and rebuilt the pages on Wordpress. You can check it out here [https:
Ham Radio Worked All Continents (WAC) After trying for about a year, I finally collected all of the QSL cards required for Worked All Continents (Mixed) sponsored by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). You achieve this by making radio contacts with the six continents (the islands in the Pacific count as Oceana/Antarctica). I actually
Ham Radio Featured Stay Tuned Article from September 7th issue of The Azle News - http://azlenews.net/community/stay-tuned/ : Azle father-son duo find amateur radio operations to be more than a pastime BY CHRISTINA DERR “It is not just a hobby – it could save someone’s life…” That’s how nine-year-old William Kisner described
