Mastodawn

Periodic reminder to toss a call out on 146.52 once in a while. Had to pick my daughter up tonight and really didn’t expect to get anyone, but what the hell? Ya know? Ended up having a great conversation about using ML & AI to analyze QSO log data.

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 27

Carl Jan 27

Email's been around for longer than most people in the world today have been alive, and still nobody can trim a reply chain.

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 25

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Chris Smart Jan 23

Torrent the new #Megadeth album if you can. Don't give them your money.

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 25

Chris Smart Jan 23

I am unable to download my purchase of the new #Megadeth album because the service they are using relies on hCaptcha. If you are #blind and use a screen reader, you cannot solve the visual captcha. They ask you to install an #accessibility cookie, which I have tried to do with two different browsers, with no luck. The provided email address for help, [email protected] bounces. How much of my day am I going to waste on this? I can't even get my money back!! #A11Y

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 20

AI6YR Ben Jan 20

Purge of amateur radio operators in Belarus (!), many of whom have been charged with treason.

https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4

#hamradio #politics

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 20

AG7GM Dan Jan 20

Gripe: Manufacturers- when you put an alpha-numeric serial number on a device PLEASE make every zero a SLASHED ZERO.

I'm tired of guessing if this is a 0 or an O.

Got it?

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 20

Mike K3LOE Jan 20

What can a new ham spend in a year? $4,881.34: https://k3loe.fyi/2026/01/20/what-can-a-new-ham/

Do the results of this self study mean I lack discipline and made bad decisions? Or is the cost of setting up a shack just that high?

#NewHam #NewHams #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

What can a new ham spend in a year? $4,881.34

Do the results of this self study mean I lack discipline and …

K3LOE: Tech on Ten

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 19

Bob Davidson Jan 19

just 34 people own 12% of US wealth!

https://open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/p/standing-up-to-trumps-imperial-blackmail?r=fcxi5&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 19

David K2FI Jan 19

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]

Old Tom KR4BTP Jan 16

Mike K3LOE Jan 16

Has anyone attempted to draft a SuperPeater budget, for the infrastructure described by @n8gnj of Zero Retries? https://www.zeroretries.org/p/superpeater

Failing that, anyone aware of a good open source repeater plan/budget for any modes?

#repeaters #repeaters4Everyone #digimode #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

SuperPeater

By Steve Stroh N8GNJ

Zero Retries