Peter

@G8GDS@mastodon.radio
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Worn out computer scientist and academic.
Homebrewer 50 years ago such as RTTY terminal unit with valves/tubes (including a Schmitt trigger - with valves, honestly), up-conversion RX.
Bought kit now I an afraid.
UK Maritime Long Range ticket: MF/HF (SSB) and VHF - but don't sail any longer.
Walk the dog. Read the news through half closed eyes while gnashing my teeth.
Location, HumanThe tip of west Cornwall in extreme south west UK
GridIO70ed
Websitehttps://fimblefowl.co.uk

@hamchallenge
I've taken the alternative approach to eliminate RFI. I run, in effect, /P from a summerhouse up the garden. Digital free, even a clockwork watch.

Not sure how this will work out now I'm swapping SGC2020 for ic-705....

Now that it was officially announced in "Solid Copy" June 2025, I can show off my plaque for the #CWOps Award for advancing the Art of CW. CW4ever! #morsecode #hamradio https://cwops.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Solid-Copy_2025_June_FINAL.pdf
Great to see that Fabian @DJ5CW has received a CWOps award for Advancing the Art of CW.
Congratulations!
Details and pictures in the latest copy of Solid Copy on the CWOps website.
#cwops #morsecode
Crowdsourcing SIGINT: Ham Radio At War

I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful fishing trip? I get a lot of different answers about bait, equipment, and boats. Some people tell me beer. Bu…

Hackaday

@davidallengreen
I've always found the Amazon ''stops away" indicator/map completely accurate. So much so that I can often walk to the front door, open it, and take the package from the driver without them getting out of the van.

Forestalls an explosion of someone-at-the-door dog barking.

I got an email from someone asking for my "Essential Trigonometry for Calculus" cheat sheet, which I give to my calculus students. So, I thought I'd put it on GitHub for anyone to download (compiled PDF and source code). https://github.com/divisbyzero/Essential-Trig-for-Calculus
@nev @rwg @deborahh
Nah, you're fine.
@nev @rwg @deborahh That's really cool.

@nev @rwg @deborahh

I taught undergraduates for a while and I set an exercise/short project that called them to put up a convincing website or Wikipedia page that contained some asserted, but wrong, information.

Extra kudos could be gained if they got references or inlinks to the site, even more when Google found it.

It helped them understand the issue a little bit better.

Unfortunately, even after we took them down at the end of course, some survived on archive sites. Oops.

Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.