TB1MSK

tb1msk.com is my personal identity, station, and communications page, which I run under my amateur radio call sign TB1MSK as a licensed operator. From Çatalca/İstanbul, at Maidenhead grid locator KN41ff, I operate with a setup that is primarily a home station but open to portable operation. On the VHF/UHF bands I do local communication with FM and repeaters, and I do digital position reporting and messaging with APRS; I keep my QSO records with logging software. I see myself as a technical but unassuming operator standing at the intersection of radio and software: “Signal in the air, code on the desk.”

At the center of my interests are infrastructure-free emergency communications and preparedness; alongside that, I keep learning technically on topics such as portable field outings, summit activations, antenna building, RF experiments, and propagation and protocols. My QSL confirmation is active: I provide electronic confirmation via LoTW and eQSL.cc, and I also reply to bureau or direct card QSLs.

I migrated the site from manually maintained static HTML (nginx) to a modern setup: a component architecture with Astro, Markdown-based content collections, and automated deployment on Cloudflare Pages. Without breaking the design, I rebuilt it with a focus on minimal JavaScript, a strict CSP and security headers, a dynamic sitemap, JSON-LD, and accessibility (semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard, prefers-reduced-motion). In its second phase, I’m adding a blog layer that will be a reassuring Turkish amateur radio resource for newcomers to turn to.