This site is a personal log of things related Amateur Radio, with a focus on the non-transmitting options accessible unlicenced SWL/Short Wave Listeners.

• Member of the IRTS
• Member of the National Shortwave Listeners Club

The theme used provides a search feature, which works on posts, the Archive provides a timeline of posts, and tags/categories work just as you’d expect.

Website build

This is site is built using Github Pages for code managment, hosting, and the build/deploy pipeline (actions).

Using those, it is generated from the Jekyll static site generator.

It builds directly upon the the Chirpy theme for Jekyll, which thankfully handles all of the behind the scenes integration with Jekyll, Github actions.

The whole install, setup and deploy was done in minutes using their getting started notes, which showed how to use their template repo on github as a starting point in just a few clicks.

All of the github pages related integration including Jekyll build (generating static output) and pages-deploy was handled behind the scenes just by following those instructions.

What takes a bit longer is figuring out how the theme works, how Jekyll works, customising your posts and configuration & behaviour.

It is possible to speed up that try, test and learn processing by installing a local build/deploy stack which i wrote about here