Setting Up an In-House Workbench

I needed a spot for small projects—stuff like putting together Raspberry Pis or doing a bit of soldering—somewhere clean and dust-free. So, I started hunting for a good workbench. Most of the benches I found were standing height, but sometimes you just want to sit down, you know? I had to stick to my budget, so I ended up using this handmade tower bench my dad built for me years ago, back when I ran a photography studio from home. I just moved my old office closer to my main workspace, still getting everything sorted out.

After the move, I realized I needed a dedicated computer bench. I didn’t want to lose desk space, so I mounted the computer on an arm, threw on a trackball mouse, and added a speaker. That’s when I noticed the Raspberry Pi 5 wasn’t exactly blasting sound over the HDMI port, so I hooked up a headphone amp. I also didn’t want to worry about storage, so I added a 500GB NVMe drive using a hat board, plus a fan and case for the Pi.

One hiccup: installing Ubuntu on the Pi 5. There was a bug with the Raspberry Pi Imager, so I had to clone the SD card to the NVMe drive. I figured it out with a bit of digging on YouTube.

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New Call Sign Plates

First thing about DMR Radio

Used a long PTT on Radio and DMR Hotspot ....

New QSL Cards Are in

My First QSL Card

Setup Dv Mega

Just Got My Dv Mega up and ruining today after two weeks debugging setup error had one Port Address miss a line cause IRCDDB and DStar modem not communication with each other use the IP Address of internal host 127.0.0.1 for the  RaspberryPI 3 200011

Study for the Tests

I start out by studying  by reading the Gordon West Technician Book found the format Question and Answer hard read.Switch to the Arrl License Manual more like school textbook format 

and practice test with Ham Test Prep  also I would suggest practice in noisy room to get used to Test Day room condition...

Set up Blog

Set up Blog ....