DMR experts or experienced users- one needs a hot spot to use dmr. With pi’s being unobtainium where does one get a hot spot? I’ve seen the sharkrf but that seems really expensive compared to being able to make your own. Throw me a bone. I’m considering a new ht and it will either be dstar or dmr. Without a hotspot I feel like dmr is probably less useful than it would otherwise be. Am I wrong?

Do videos post on Mastodon? I’ll give it a try. A friend asked me to figure out his UV5R. I took some video of the band scope on my base station while transmitting on simplex. The first radio is my DJ-VX50. The second is a UV5R. I’d say that qualifies as spurious emissions.

Apparently there was a bug in the first release of Ventura that caused wsjt-x to stop working. Updating to the most recent update appears to have magically fixed what all my fiddling couldn’t, so I can make ft8 contacts one handed while I recover from surgery for the next couple months.

After a year advocating for myself, my forth orthopedic doctor performed radius-ulna complex reconstruction on my wrist. It will absolutely impede my radio operation as well as music and trail building and mountain biking, and motor cycling. But most of that was being negatively impacted by the injury anyway. Folks, don’t be afraid or subtle about advocating for yourself, find another doctor if you need, but have confidence in your understanding of your body.

Who likes ssb on vhf/uhf? Anyone?

@venya I found a video of us doing ace of spades. Not our best rendition- the pa was having issues (probably wet) and we were all over the place - but you can tell what it is. https://youtu.be/xveTRibm2k8

@smitty re: tangents about your workbench. 45 minutes to get through your bench, by my reconning 35 minutes on tangential explaining. But hey. I’m not bored.

Honestly, this is why I just can’t go electric. https://apple.news/AVKj3Qx50Qeyq0fGqcT4z8Q

Radio operators- headphones are good if you’re working the radio. When you’re just in the shack working and listening do you use the radio speaker, an external speaker, or some other form of not the radio speaker? What do you prefer and why?

Antennas and winds mixing seem to be one of the major stress points of any radio operator. I think my 11 meter antenna is a bit more dramatic to watch in storms than my vhf/uhf vertical or my hf efhw.