<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-AU"><generator uri="https://astro.build/">Astro</generator><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en-AU" /><updated>2026-10-09T04:34:43+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Dean Bird - VK4DSB</title><subtitle>Amateur radio operator, IT security professional, and tinkerer based in Bellmere QLD.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Will it Antenna - FT8 With a Patio Roof</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/09/25/ft8-with-a-patio-roof.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Will it Antenna - FT8 With a Patio Roof" /><published>2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/09/25/ft8-with-a-patio-roof</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Will it antenna? I clipped my Xiegu X6100 onto random metal around the house to see what the built-in ATU could tune, running FT8 from my Lenovo tablet with FT8AF. The fence could hear the world, but the patio roof got me a contact into New Zealand.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">I let an AI deploy my platform 128 times</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/09/12/I-let-an-AI-deploy-my-platform-128-times.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="I let an AI deploy my platform 128 times" /><published>2026-09-12T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-09-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/09/12/I-let-an-AI-deploy-my-platform-128-times</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Reaper has seven optional components, which means 128 possible deployments. I had only ever tested a handful of them. So I clean-installed every single one, which took 33 hours and turned up three real bugs, one of which meant Windows couldn't deploy at all.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Phoenixing of SunBird</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/07/09/the-pheonixing-of-sunbird.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Phoenixing of SunBird" /><published>2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/07/09/the-pheonixing-of-sunbird</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[My solar Meshtastic node SunBird was slowly losing its battery due to poor sun exposure. Here's how I rebuilt it with a gutted Bunnings solar floodlight for a bigger battery, bigger panel, and a new home on the hill.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">What was uploading my data at night? Hunting Android’s mystery UID -253</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/07/04/androids-mystery-uid-253.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="What was uploading my data at night? Hunting Android’s mystery UID -253" /><published>2026-07-04T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-04T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/07/04/androids-mystery-uid-253</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[An unidentified uid:-253 was uploading megabytes of data from my phone every night. Here's how I traced Android's undocumented negative UID to Google's backup service.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Deploying my first solar meshtastic node.</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/06/20/radio-node-deployment.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Deploying my first solar meshtastic node." /><published>2026-06-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/06/20/radio-node-deployment</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Having built my version of the Solar Meshtastic Node, tested it for a few weeks and planned out possible locations, it was time to actually put it out in the world to see if we could connect people in northern Brisbane. (If there were any.)]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">My Radio Rig</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/06/16/my-radio-rig.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="My Radio Rig" /><published>2026-06-16T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-16T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/06/16/my-radio-rig</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This is my radio setup. It’s not the biggest or most expensive, but it is designed to balance cost vs portability to allow me to get out and use it as much as I can. Which I admit hasn’t been as much as I would like :(]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Mapping Meshtastic Node Locations</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/06/07/mapping-node-locations.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Mapping Meshtastic Node Locations" /><published>2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/06/07/mapping-node-locations</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[What started as a hunt for a better spot to put one solar node ended with me building my own RF line-of-sight planning tool — and a map showing exactly where two towns’ coverage overlaps.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Solar Node - 1 Week in</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/22/solar-node-1week-in.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Solar Node - 1 Week in" /><published>2026-05-22T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-22T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/22/solar-node-1week-in</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[It has been about a week since I have re-built my meshtastic solar node with the Heltec T114. Solar Node Build. Here are the results of how it has performed over the past week, and what I plan to do next.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Welcome — starting a blog</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/20/welcome.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Welcome — starting a blog" /><published>2026-05-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/20/welcome</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Setting up a blog on this site so I can post short writeups as projects come together, rather than always promoting them to full topic pages.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Expanding the TOR Transparent Gateway: Multiple LANs, Routing, and a CTF Playground</title><link href="https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/20/updating-my-tor-network.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Expanding the TOR Transparent Gateway: Multiple LANs, Routing, and a CTF Playground" /><published>2026-05-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dea.nbird.com.au/2026/05/20/updating-my-tor-network</id><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Previously I built an Alpine-based TOR transparent gateway for a single network that forced all traffic from the network out over TOR. It worked, but it was klunky became: It was a weird setup in that it existed in the same network as the actual router. It had a .2 address and the real router just kinda sat there silenty in the same room with the .1 address. Because of the way it was setup, it required asymetric routing if I wanted to access things inside the network from outside. It was an all or nothing approach (i.e. all traffic from that network exited via TOR) It only allowed one subnet.]]></summary></entry></feed>