Friday, February 20, 2026

Russia publicly pitches $14 trillion economic deal [bribe?] to Trump tied to lifting US sanctions -- Ready to fight: Baltics face NATO fragility fears in the age of Trump -- US reportedly presses allies to block Ukraine from full participation at NATO summit -- He just wanted to go home: Brazilian recruit’s death in Ukraine points to torture, abuse in foreign fighter unit ... and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-20-2026/

Optus outage in Frankston area

FRANKSTON, VIC. — Damage to an aerial cable has resulted in approximately 14,096 outages affecting mobile phone voice and data services in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas.

VicNews
Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption | lander's posts

nothing interesting

New Study Suggests We Should Search for "Spillover" from Extraterrestrial Radio Communications

New analysis of human deep space communications suggests the most likely places to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Universe Today

C'est pas très localisé en plus… La vidéo date d'avant mon déménagement, et c'est toujours d'actualité 🤬

À l'époque j'avais testé à la fois à l'appart et loin de l'appart et j'avais exactement les mêmes pertubations sur les mêmes canaux…

Donc ça la concerne à minima une bonne partie de la ville…

1. Qui dure assez pour tomber dessus au hasard/facilement/plusieurs fois par jour.

#PMR446 #BandesLibres #Radiocommunications #Radiocomm

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Happy 100th IARU

Every April 18, radio amateurs worldwide take to the airwaves to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day. On this day in 1925, the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris.

VicNews
German rail services ‘massively disrupted’ by technical fault http://dlvr.it/TDqbZ7 #DB #Europe #RailNews #RadioCommunications
German rail services ‘massively disrupted’ by technical fault

In a statement on its website, the rail operator said trains would not leave their stations in the affected area and it was urgently working to fix the problem.

VibeWire Magazine - Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything
German rail services ‘massively disrupted’ by technical fault http://dlvr.it/TDqYLj #DB #Europe #RailNews #RadioCommunications
German rail services ‘massively disrupted’ by technical fault

In a statement on its website, the rail operator said trains would not leave their stations in the affected area and it was urgently working to fix the problem.

VibeWire Magazine - Transport, Politics, UFO, Paranormal, Anything
A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth...
#planetaryscience #outerspace #nasa #solarflares #astronomy #space #nasa_projects #radiocommunications #science #earth #CurrentEvents https://phys.org/news/2023-12-biggest-solar-flare-years-temporarily.html
Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth

A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth.

Phys.org

I help a fair bit with designing radio communications systems. What has become apparent to me over the last year or so, is that:

1) Cyber Security must become an intergral part of the overall system design process.

2) Some of the people I help with this work make Cyber Security the last step - more often than not, an afterthought.

Your thoughts?

#cybersecurity #radiocommunications