Someone is calling CQ Field Day on 446. Check ya clock. Field Day's over.
Edit: apparently it's not over. Well oops. I forgot they extended it to 20:59 UTC.
I'm a blind (going deaf) amateur radio operator in New York City, licensed since 1993, primarily found on VHF/UHF and Allstarlink. I run the Allstarlink/digital bridges for www.BlindHams.com.
I'm an audio engineer by trade, which is really fun when going deaf, and enjoy playing with VoIP, Raspberry Pi projects, etc. Also pretend to be a musician sometimes.
I mostly just post amateur radio stuff here. My more general account is @BorrisInABox
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Someone is calling CQ Field Day on 446. Check ya clock. Field Day's over.
Edit: apparently it's not over. Well oops. I forgot they extended it to 20:59 UTC.
#whatsapp the messaging app by #meta is working on showing you ads, well I've been seeing articles that mention this.
They claim not to know what you're messaging, as it's all end to end encrypted !
But in order to serve you ads which I absolutely hate !! this is what's happening !!!
Last night I happened to look at my notifications, when I noticed that #whatsapp just finished downloading 2 files.
This wasn't shown at the top of the screen, but hiding in my notification history !! Sneakily installing !! Grrrrr
2 Files :
ML model : Tokenizer
and
ML Model : Sentence Embedding
ML stands for machine learning.
The Tokenizer (1st file) is a tool that breaks down raw text into smaller pieces, called tokens, which can be processed by Machine Learning models.
Machine Learning models require the raw data (images, text, audio) from the above tokens and convert them into complex vectors called Sentence Embedding (2nd file) that ML models can effectively understand.
So basically !!!
#whatsapp doesn't know what you're talking about as its all end to end encrypted, haha BIG joke !!
But they know very accurately what's being said, as everything is being analyzed locally on your phone, before it's encrypted and send to your other party.
Now they know what's being said they can start serving you ads from which they make their money, #meta that is, the owner of #whatsapp .
So be prepared to uninstall I would say !!!!
Cheers
Enjoy the rest if your day 🙂
OK, ya got me good. CONGRATULATIONS!
I was just monitoring 146.52 (simplex) and a local repeater at the same time, and for a few transmissions, someone just happened to kirchunk the repeater, causing it's courtesy tone to play, after each transmission I heard on simplex. Needless to say, I was kinda confused.
#AudioMo day23:
Did you know that there is hidden morse code all throughout Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' album?
Somehow, probably during the two-track mix-down stage of the album, the CW from a powerful, very low frequency transmitter about 37 miles north of the studio in which this album was recorded found it's way to tape. It's centered at 16 kHz, and so low in the mix that you can't actually hear it... at least, not without some help.
This is a very short, not particularly comprehensive demo using two different methods -- a pair of stock Reaper plugins and an SDR package to mostly isolate this morse transmission, which is heard throughout the entire album.
References:
Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells https://madpsy.uk/link-between-the-soundtrack-of-the-exorcist-and-amateur-radio/
The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UJAfuvniI