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Hibby

Hibby is the sole figure behind Hibbian, after years of involvement in the Debian project and the UK Packet Radio Scene. He can be found up a sota summit transmitting as MM0RFN, and finding weird ways to include computers in his adventures.

📍 Scotland

What I've been up to in Open Ham Radio - March 2026

It has been a while since I did an update. Might as well do one now

Introduction

Finally, I've managed to pull together enough disparate components for the project to come together! Hibbian Linux - a distribution aimed at ham radio operators.

July 2024 - What I was up to in Open Ham Radio

I do a lot in free software for ham radio, and Steve at Zero Retries encouraged me to take this email I sent him and translate it into something here.

Splat for UHF radio station coverage modelling - 2020 Edition

Amateur Radio, antennas and coverage planning

Debian as a Ham Radio Station Laptop - 2020 Edition

Amateur Radio, Linux and a constant struggle

10-1-11 17:55 - ISS Pass

This was a pretty quiet pass, with 6 stations being heard. From Left to right it reads: Callsign - Type - Mobile/Portable/Fixed - Distance - Latitude - Longitude - Number of Packets Received So, all in all we heard Germany (DG4BR DG3LA), Italy (IK3ZGB), Hungary (HA3HT), Spain (EA1JM)

11-1-11 16:45 - ISS Pass

Another busy pass, this time with 12 stations heard and placed on the map! So, we heard and placed Scotland (MM0XXP), England (G4ILO 2E0JXE G6HMS), Ireland (EI2GNB), The Netherlands (PD2RLD), Germany (DB3LA), France (G6EZP), Italy (IK1COA), Spain (EA1JM), Hungary (HA3HT) and Yugoslavia (YU7RD). Yugoslavia's a new one -

11-1-11 1500 - ISS Pass

This pass started off quiet but got busier towards the end, as the ISS passed over the more Eastern European countries. The APRS software, AGWTracker, had some difficulty as not all station include their Latitude and Longitude data in the packets I was hearing. Also, updating the Keps was a

06-1-11 19:22 - ISS Pass

This was a busier pass, with 14 stations heard... From Left to right it reads: Callsign - Type - Mobile/Portable/Fixed - Distance - Latitude - Longitude - Number of Packets Received Through the International Space Station, I heard Ireland, (EI7IG), England (G0GOO G6WZA), Scotland (MM0YEQ), The Netherlands (PD2RLD)

06-1-11 17:50 - ISS Pass

This pass was relatively noisy, with 10 stations being heard... Through the space station, I heard England (G0GOO G6UIM), the Netherlands (PD2RLD), Germany (GF8LS DG4BR DM2KGB), Spain (EA1JM), Italy (IK1COA) and France (F6CDZ F4FEB), Plotted below for your viewing pleasure. Not a bad list, overall, but I reckon we can