GRAV to Hugo Migration

I know it has been quite awhile since I have posted anything here on my website but I am hoping to change that. When I decided on diving back in I was not happy with the performance of my page loads even from my local network. This was the main driver for this migration.

Some of the key factors in switching were:

• portability
• performance
• automation

With hugo all I needs is hugo and go installed on any computer that has access to my webserver. Right now I am writing this post from my macOS system using VSCode. I have added a cpouple of simple tasks to VSCode to ease the creation of a new post and to deploy updates to my web server.

This was our first trip of the year for 2022 and was the first time we have gone camping on the early shoulder of camping season. In Colorado camping season kicks off Memorial day weekend. This trip also served as a shake down for the mods and additions that we had acquired during the winter.

Mods:

• Upgraded thermostat to Micro-Air Easytouch.
• Added a Maxxair II to the front vent.
• Blackstone 22" Griddle for outdoor cooking.

This was our first major trip taken with our travel trailer (TT) were we were totally dependant on the trailer and the campsites we chose. The time span of this trip was fourteen (14) days and covered over two thousand five hundred fifty (2550) miles. The header image of this post shows the route that we took. When traveling on vacation we try to keep the driving to about three hundred (300) miles per day. In doing this we get the following benefits:

The weekend of March 13 2021 and the following Monday (3/15/2021) are ones for the history books. The official total for Loveland, CO was twenty-nine point one inches (29.1") Kelly and I have been lved in Colorado now for almost eight years and this is the most snow accumaulation we have had ever.

We had over a dozen power blips but Internet (Comcast) and TV (Dish) was stable through the whole storm. We had one branch on a tree in the front yard break off and the supporting fiberglass mast for my 40m endfed antenna snapped in half.

This was our first year with our 2020 Forest River Micro Lite 21FBRS, and so far no issues. My 2018 EcoDiesel got a set of airbags with onboard 100% duty cycle air compressor from Timber Grove to assist the rear coils and improve the ride.

We only got to make two (2) camping trips this year due to the the pandemic (COVID-19).

• Our first trip was to Mount Rushmore were we got to relax and take in the sites for a well deserved long weekend.
• The second trip was to attend our son’s wedding in northern Idaho in late June. We have made this trip multiple time with and with out a trailer. On this trip we decided we were going to take our time getting there and getting home. Because of the pandemic we did not site see anywhere but we just relaxed and enjoyed the surroundings.

With the leaves turning and the nights starting to dip into the below freezing numbers my wife and I decidedm to go ahead and winterize Escape Pod along with deactiviating wally (dish receiver). It was a very sad Sunday.

The picture above is me settling in our new travel trailer (TT) nicknamed ‘EscapePod V2’. It is a 2020 Forest River Micro Lite 21FBRS.

For those that know me this is our second TT. Our first one was totaled in an accident ((Truck, TT, and me) and ice) in October 2019 on the way home from Idaho. We had some good memories and vowed it would be replaced.

I have had this on my someday todo list for over a year now and finally pulled the trigger last week and ordered all the parts from amazon except the URI interface. As a guide I found AllstarSetup.com Starter Node quite easy to follow. It all went together quite easily and showed how much more practice I need on soldering very small components.

Smoke test will occur today (02/27/2019) around 00:30 UTC.

Christmas this year I felt truly blessed. We had all of our adult children home to visit. Activities ranged from just visiting and catching up to playing a game called “What do you MEME”. A couple of other highlights are below:

• Ice Skating at Centerra

  • Could not get the oldest son and his wife off the ice. They were having a good time.
  • Our granddaughter lasted all of about 30 seconds on the ice before she got scared.
  • Our other son and his significant other now have this activity checked off their bucket list. :)

• “Christmas in Color” in Thorton, CO.

After some poking around I decided to see if I can put a new face to the site with a new theme. What you are looking at so far is what I found most pleasing to my eye. Side benefit to this one is that it also shows my @kf5jra twiiter feed. If you find anything broken please let me know.

This post will explain how I document all the settings of the applications that interface with my ham station. With the complexity of any ham station in interfacing both hardware and software it can get a little overwhelming to keep track of how everything is connected and or its settings. The tools that I have chosen work for me and have been real world tested (accidently).

The first thing to determine is what are you going to use to capture all these settings. Some criteria: