Koos van den Hout PE4KH

@PE4KH@mastodon.radio
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Radio amateur (full license), cw included. Interested in HF DX, contesting, digital modes, morse, satellites
Homepagehttps://pe4kh.idefix.net/
LocatorJO22NC
CallsignPE4KH
Preferred pronounshe/him

When you hear that a fellow fediham has been receiving hate mail for running a special event station with an -LGBT suffix.. it's not much, but I'd rather say something than nothing.

https://www.qrz.com/db/OE3OMK

OE3OMK Callsign Page

OE3OMK personal biography

QRZ Callsign Database

This month I have the special #hamradio callsign EH5LGBT, and yesterday I used it in a local Morse contest. After a while I started receaving (in morse), "CERDOS CERDOS CERDOS" (PIG in spanish), and later I recieved this email.

I laughed, because I feel proud about myself, and I don't care what these idiots may think.

Happy #pride and see you on the air!

#pridemonth #lgbtqi

@stacey_campbell @piggo @ai6yr
Rule number 1: Never live anywhere that has an HOA.

TFW you cant tell the difference between a north korean smartphone, and windows 11 with recall

https://www.techspot.com/news/108156-north-korean-smartphone-secretly-takes-screenshot-every-5.html

In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

The phone was featured in a BBC video, which showed it powering on with an animated North Korean flag waving across the screen. While the report did...

TechSpot
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy

Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

A blog entry inspired by posts and replies here that seem to imply that there's a right way and a wrong way to copy CW.

Spoiler alert: There is no singular "right" way to do it.

https://querybang.com/2025/05/copying-cw-by-writing-it-down-is-not-wrong/

#hamradio #morsecode

Copying CW by writing it down is not “wrong”

One of the reasons that the only social media I use is Mastodon is that find that, on balance, it’s freer of polarizing expressions of opinion than Twitter (I refuse to call it by its current…

QueryBang
my best guess is a vampire fell asleep on it last night