Chasing Quiet Ham Radio Audio, Battery Charging Processes, Fringe Physics: Week Notes Up to 4-8-ish

Week notes are kinda cool. It's fun to see what happened the week before ,what was planned ahead, and then reflect on that. This week, sigh... Oh, the irony. Reviewing last weeks notes, I found an off-handed comment I made about working on improving audio performance by bringing all the audio wiring inside the rig. This, Did Not. Help. I did get to learn a lot about where the noise in the audio circuits is coming from, I did also invent a new patch that helped out with the Pico-W noise I was originally trying to eliminate. Reflection is pretty useful, actually :)

It's not easy to see the charging light indicator on the Imuto supply when it's properly housed in its Progresso soup can... ahhh... battery pack enclosure! I worked out an audio process for ensuring the charging cables are indeed charging so I don't wake up with a non-functional radio.

I spent a lot of time looking at and reading about the QMX! (I read about it at their site, on qrper.com, and on w6csn.blog.) The heart of this rig will definitely fit into a TouCans case. The next TouCans might be a QMX!

I'm working on ramping up on new writing projects, you know, other than this one.

I've been playing around with mapping the sides of hills for Project TouCans POTA activations. I've getting some interesting results and getting towards automating the process to get to those results.

Goals for the next week

The first goal is to make better goal choices than I did last week. Improve TouCan's audio by putting the wires in the can... Geesh...

OK, here we go:

release datasette-gis-partial-path as a Python package
write a plugin to pull elevation data form Google Maps Elevation API
Figure out a path to get time stamps back into the animated QSO KML maps since the deprecated for over a decade Google Charts API appears to have finally given out.
Maybe get back to writing things like this. Somebody found it this week, and I kinda love it.

Have a great week everybody!

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