I’ve had a need to set up and run a Matrix homeserver and I wanted to try to set it up for general use as well as just for this project. The one thing I wanted to do that is a little non-standard is to use the “plain” domain for my user ID while hosting the homeserver on a subdomain. In this case I wanted to use “irl.xyz” as the user ID domain, and “syn.
I’ve been wanting to document my portable radio setup for a while, so finally here is that blog post. This is a QRP setup, intended primarily for digimodes on HF. HF antenna set up on Elrick Hill, Aberdeen First I want to talk about the antenna setup. Pictured above is the antenna set up on Elrick Hill in Aberdeen. I walked straight up the hill last weekend with the kit and had the antenna up in under 10 minutes.
Now that lockdown is lifting a bit in Scotland, I’ve been going a bit further for exercise. One location I’ve been to a few times is Tyrebagger Woods. In theory, I can walk here from my house via Brimmond Hill although I’m not yet fit enough to do that in one go. Instead of following the main path, I took a detour along some route that looked like it wanted to be a path but it hadn’t been maintained for a while.