I finally got my amateur radio licence yesterday with a callsign VU3RDD. Within afew minutes of getting the license paper, I made my first "QSO" on VHF with VU2QNY, another fellow ham from Bangalore. He was equally excited when I said it is my first QSO! May be I should keep a seperate amateur radio Blog.

I need to setup my station now. I designed a simple QSL card with Scribus and it was really a breeze. Scribus is really nice and easy to learn. I need to improve upon my design and create a better card.

On the GNU Radio front, my 2.3 packages are stuck in NEW for more than a month now. In this period, a new swig version was uploaded which will mean 2.3 won't build. So I need to upload 2.4, which is ready too. I also wrote a signal processing block which does filtering on one path and a delay on another and sent a patch to Eric. The copyright process with FSF is also done.