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Hello and welcome to Episode 564 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take a preliminary in-depth look at the C#/F# UI toolkit known as Avalonia. This is a new toolkit designed to make pretty and functional graphical applications. Topics include downloading, installing, basic implementation, features and more. Thanks for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

Hello and welcome to the 565th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss Youth on the Air Month for 2024, a new version of Elementary OS, the latest release of OBS Studio, the new hotness in Manjaro and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

The ARRL 10m contest happens this weekend (I got the date correct this time), and as we all know, 10m can be a band full of surprises. I once again put my ZachTek WSPR desktop transmitter to work for 24 hours. Below is a snapshot from Wednesday 19:00 UTC to Thursday 19:00 UTC. 

The graphs indicates that 10m becomes active around  1100 UTC, peaking at 14:00 UTC and staying decent until 21:00, when the band begins its fast closing for the day. 

Antenna pattern of the Hustler 4BTV

Kp index at the time

The band begins to open at 11:00 UTC

The Band peaks at 14:00 UTC

The band begins its sharp drop off starting at 21:00

The RFI black book

 At the beginning of November, I posted regarding the journal I was going to start regarding my RFI. I wanted to log ideas to try, results from the ideas and detailed records of the RFI. In the past, it was scribbled on a paper here and there and when needed to refer to I could not find the notes. This was a great help and allowed me to track what did and did not work. 

I then blogged on December 1st regarding ferrites I had purchased. They were bought and arrived in mid-November and I had a chance to give them a go. Now in my post on the ferrites, I did mention I purchased a brand called Fair-Rite, which I felt where a very good brand. I wanted to make the first test for this product an easy access one. I have mentioned in the past our electronic Maytag washing machine always had issues with RF from my operating. When I transmitted the washers would stop and just hummed. If the machine was not being used but still plugged in and I transmitted all the LED  lights would come on and it would start to buzz. The only solution while operating was to turn off the power to the washer. In the past, I tried some snap-on chokes from MFJ and put them on the washers AC power cord, which did not work. I snapped on 2 of the Fair-rite chokes and to this day I  have had no issues at all with the washing machine. The machine can sit there powered on or doing a load of laundry and no issues at all. 

Fair-Rite with 4 loops (4th on backside)