Hi All,
Just to say hello and Merry Christmas.
A little about me:
James
Based in the UK
Use Mikrotik/Pfsense in a professionally
Full amateur radio UK license holder (also hold a US tech)
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Hi James, āsame sameā from the other side of the North Sea.
Looking forward to learning and gaining insights here. Iām a novice as far as server setup and such go, it was Tom who inspired me to go into PFsense, FreeNAS and XCP-Ng. Learning to roll my own solutions instead of buying of the shelves.
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Merry Christmas to you as well, James!
Also a (US) Ham here. Iāve been General class sinceā¦ uhā¦ //looks himself up on QRZ// ā¦2014!
I started using pfsense after watching Tomās videos as well. I have a VMWare ESXi 6.7 lab environment but Iām itching to try out XCP-NG as well. Iād wipe and reload my ESXi box and load it if I need to learn VMWare for work.
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Hi James,
Fellow UK person here, was kinda wishing for it to be a tad colder here tbh, letās the servers be a tad quieter for a bit of the year 
Iām currently a mix of Meraki, Cisco and pfsense for my network.
Is there much overlap between network/homeland type stuff and amateur radio. It would be pretty neat to broadcast system/servee warnings long range over radio so if ISP is down it could be relayed out over a different medium.
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Thatās very cool, I really love doing things myself. I know the saying ādonāt re-invent the wheelā but if we didnāt weād learn nothing.
Hi Matt,
Very cool to see another ham on here. Iāve always been fascinated with electronics and radio in general. I really believe today that the gap between IT and radio communications is closing fast.
Iām just using KVM on Debian, this runs all my guest machines. Iām pretty much self hosting everything now, itās time consuming but I love it
Haha, Is it bad that I want snow? Most people grab the pitchforks when I say that!
My server (really an old gaming machine tower) keeps the office warm.
We use Meraki on some client sites, I like the interface. However I really dislike how long theyāve taken to implement IPv6.
I would say that computers play a much bigger role in Amateur radio now. You could have a remote alarm that would transmit over a wide range. The one limitation in the UK is that we are not allowed to use our Amateur licenses for commercial use, so hobby stuff is fine.
We have loads of digital modes, some capable of carrying internet now 
. Any questions Iād be happy to help.
Merry Christmas
I am also in the UK, Hull to be precise.
Running an MSP.
Very busy!
Not quite cold enough here, yet.
Kind regards,
Chris
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TBH I would love some snow. RN. Three feet deep minimum.
It would make xmas time feel more xmassy aswell
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Hello, fellow Brit here. Located near Leeds.
Iām a web developer at work, but have a keen interest in Home-labbing, testing new hardware and just started running Ubuntu LXD containers for my home network.
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