Notebook

Progress notes from the bench. What I built this week, what fought back, and the small wins worth writing down. Kept short and honest.

• The Si5351 clock generator that disappeared… July 12, 2026

  I’d been getting the RX888 firmware ready for people to actually lean on, which, right before you hand a thing to users, means trying to break it yourself. The RX888 wires the...

• The RX888, end to end July 9, 2026

  There’s a particular kind of satisfaction in watching a signal travel the whole length of something you built. This week the RX888 mk2 did exactly that — from the ADC to a...

• A loop, a stepper, and a Tuesday night June 29, 2026

  This is a CLASSIC post from work I did 6 years ago with my friends at Len Long’s Tuesday Night Workshop. Len W1ZTL my eternal thanks for the space and comraderie you’ve...

• Starting a notebook June 20, 2026

  For years my projects lived in scattered places: ~/code project spaces, commit messages, email threads, forum ports, and my own unreliable memory. This is my attempt to gather the good parts in...