I got hold of an older Lenovo W541 notebook equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor and an Nvidia Quadro 2100 graphics card, which even today offers above-standard computing performance, and Windows 11 runs fast, as it should. After the necessary hardware repair and diagnostics, it was time for the software, and thus also the BIOS upgrade to the latest available version 2.42, which turned out to be more complicated than it seemed at first glance.

The era of artificial intelligence is definitively here, impacting all spheres of our lives more and more intensely, day by day. The field of amateur radio is no exception. In the following article, I will try to clarify the possibilities and methods of using artificial intelligence (hereinafter referred to as AI) in amateur practice as well.

It is increasingly common that modern integrated circuits are only available in SMD packages. In most cases, the manufacturer offers development kits for developing applications with such integrated circuits, with the price often reaching several hundred euros. 

Many of us have grown fond of the Volumio music player. Besides the option to choose from a huge number of web radio stations, there is sometimes a need to add your own web stream source. This is easy to do via the UI interface in the "My Web Radios" section. It often happens that the new source does not provide the web radio image in the required PNG or JPG format, but often in WEBP and similar formats, which the Volumio system cannot parse, and the default Volumio icon is displayed.