Jonathan G4IVV

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119 Followers
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78 Posts
Radio amateur from Cambridgeshire, UK.
Sometimes found on a hilltop or park, usually found on CW.
LocationCambridgeshire, UK
LocatorJO02DC
InterestsCW, Portable operating (SOTA, POTA), contesting
Show threadJonathan G4IVVMar 8
@IU1KGS And the added bonus is that all the idiots, tuner-uppers and “up police” are distracted by 3Y0K so its a real pleasure to work J51A 😀
Show threadJonathan G4IVVMar 1
@ian I voted for 2 but it’s a close call and don't mind either way. I think the only thing I don't like about 1 is that the close dialog is in a different position than the open hamburger. If the hamburger in 1 turned into an X in the same position when the dialog is open, I would have voted for 1. Thanks anyway for a great tool!
Jonathan G4IVVFeb 28

A while back I got offered a free trial of a water leak detector for my home (it's not great, generates false positives in cold weather). Looks like the batteries are flat as I got a text from the server so I opened the app to check. Here are the instructions, what on earth does step 3 mean? "Reseat the batteries of LeakBot closer to the router”???? 😂😂

More AI slop by the looks of things…

I think I’ll take the batteries out, place them on top of my router and email their support team a photo 😂

Show threadJonathan G4IVVFeb 23
@ian Yes same here, but it was only 18 months in my case! Thanks for the first activator badge - I just happened by chance to do a new one this morning so that was good timing 😀
Show threadJonathan G4IVVFeb 22
@vk6flab @Ea5iyl I particularly call out VARA with its pseudo open documentation. It describes some of the on air protocol but misses out key bit encoding so that no one else can implement it. Why do that, why try to pretend you are doing the right thing?
Show threadJonathan G4IVVFeb 22

@vk6flab @Ea5iyl I totally agree. There's no place in amateur radio for closed source protocols. It goes against all amateur radio stands for.

That doesn't mean we can't have closed source implementations of course and I happily use a mixture of open and closed source software & hardware, but what we transmit on air must be in a format fully defined in freely available documentation.

Show threadJonathan G4IVVJan 31
@ian Yes I just do an initail GET then trigger a 3rd party node that wraps the Javascript EventSource module. It emits timeout errors if no SSE events received for a little while, but seems to recover itself as soon as the next event is pushed. Ping me if you see any problems with your API usage! I'm keeping an eye on it to make sure its behaving...
Jonathan G4IVVJan 31
@ian Thanks Ian for all your work on https://spothole.app/ 👍 I have just started using your API on my node-red station control dashboard. The SSE updates work great, it was quite easy to add to node-red.
Show threadJonathan G4IVVAug 16, 2025
@pa8mm Nice to catch you on 40m Victor, good luck with the activation!
Show threadJonathan G4IVVAug 10, 2025
@IU1KGS Yes I agree Carlo. Also I don't understand why it's asymmetrical with the sending and copying only in one direction into Europe?