Some things I'm into:
#books (I read a bunch of them, publish a few)
organically propelled boats
#ham radio
Python
homebrew electronics. Radios , micro-controllers, melting solder
Ham radio stuff:
I like #QRP #MorseCode and that's 95% of my operating.
Interested in digital communication modes
POTA, SOTA, NAQCC, SKCC
Radios I use:
#FT-817 ND
LNR MTR-4B v2 (won in NAQCC drawing!)
QDX
on the shelf:
μBitx (lots of hacking to do)
Ten-Tec 544
Foxx-3 (need to get it away from BCI and try)
I like banging out #MorseCode with a straight key and logging on paper, but #POTA and #SOTA hunting pretty much require a computer for the spots.
So I wrote a #python script to filter data from the API to just CW. Then I color coded for new parks and QRT, then added SOTA. Recently I got crazy and had it ID letters I needed for the #NAQCC challenge. I should stop before I create a logger.
Have questions on the way that Mastodon account discovery works? Do you also hate math and code? Check out the blog I worked on with @iftas where we break down the Mastodon algorithms that recommend followers to you!
https://connect.iftas.org/news/connect/mastodon-discovery/
Hate reading blogs? Check out and feel free to share the infographic we made to summarize the article!
Boosts welcome!
Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?
And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?
And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?
It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.
For years, I have been telling people that if they love podcasts and want to support podcast creators—especially independent ones—they shouldn’t listen to podcasts on Spotify. Starting in 2019, Spotify has attempted to own the entire lifecycle of podcast content, from creation to monetizing to consumption. If Spotify had its way, all podcasts would be […]
I have an ever-growing collection of images, maps, documents, text snippets, etc. for my #history research and I'm looking for open-source tools to help organize them.
For text files I can write grep searches, and i just started adding keyword metadata to images with Geequi, which makes them searchable, but is a bit clunky and makes me wish everything was in a database.
What better Linux-compatible tools/workflows are out there?
The April NAQCC #QRP #MorseCode #hamradio Newsletter is out, with my trip report about hiking up a 500' ridge with a minimalist rig and a big chair, breaking things, and making a lot of contacts for POTA and the NC QSO Party.
Anyone figure out a way to get image generators to make plausible #hamradio drawings? I can't make them quit putting VHF whips all over every HF radio, and I've never been able to get one to render anything remotely like a straight key.
The third time I beg it to get rid of the aerials, it tells me to hire an illustrator. Which yeah, if I knew one who wanted to work for the the non-profit radio club casual newsletter illustration budget of... exposure? Not even gonna ask!
Cheap #earbuds suggestions for #POTA #hamradio?
The little audio amp in the MTR-4B needs 97dB/W or better to hear the weak ones. Luckily, that's more common on the low end, but specs vary all over and usually aren't published.
I made the mistake of plugging my last pair of good high-sensitivity ones into another rig, forgetting it, and then cranking up the volume while they were on the desk, blowing them out.
How I created a panadapter for an old superhet HF radio using GNURadioCompanion, an RTL-SDR and a jumper wire
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