We’re now in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, visiting my wife’s family. <\/p>\n
I’ve had some time to think about the future of the podcast. There will have to be a summer pause — my shack is now in a bunch of boxes, out in the Atlantic ocean somewhere (hopefully above the surface!). <\/p>\n
I want to use the move to improve the podcast and the associated blog and websites. Here are some initial ideas:<\/p>\n
— Reaching out to a broader community of Knack victims. It would be good thing could use the podcast to pull in guys who are solder melters, but who are not (yet) hardcore QRP homebrewers. <\/p>\n
— Better audio. I need a real microphone. Maybe a simple equalizer. I need to REALLY get rid of the SSSSSS problem. <\/p>\n
— Easier-to-use software. I’m still using the collection of software that Mike, KL7R, and I threw together five years ago. It all starts with Audacity (which works very well). But then for updating the website I’m using an OLD version of Mozilla composer. Updating the .rss feed is even more rickety — I manually go in and change the text using Microsoft’s notepad. There has to be an easier way of doing all this.<\/p>\n
— Self-hosted blog. I’m currently using Google’s Blogspot to host the blog. But I see some advantages in moving to a self-hosted blog. I’d like to have a better comment\/dialog feature, something more like the discussion board on the “AM Window” and other similar blogs.<\/p>\n
— More video. Don’t worry. I’ll stick with the audio podcast. But video is fun and useful, so I want to try to do more videos.<\/p>\n
— More guests on the show. I often say this, but in practice doing this makes it a lot harder to do a podcast. But maybe this will get easier now that I’m in the East Coast time zone.<\/p>\n
Let me know what you think. 73 from Santo Domingo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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