Michael Waggoner (KC1MW)

@michaelwaggoner
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Professional amateur and Giganerd. Engineering student but only okay at math. KC1MW on the air.
What should cause concern in people's minds is that there was no city wide alert for non-Brown affiliated citizens at the city or state level or at least not by text, call or email.
For everyone's knowledge, apparently during the press conference it might have been mentioned that the doors to the Engineering building require swipe access. At the time the shooting was reported, exams were being held in the building so the exterior doors were likely unlocked and the large front door near where the shooting might have started is never locked this early in the day.
As of now, the shooter is not in custody and there are no images of them. 2 Dead, 8 critical but stable confirmed. Early reports of 20+ victims based on scanner traffic have yet to be corroborated. Second shooting location was also unfounded. PD suspects one shooter in all black clothes. All other reporting is unfounded and likely based on misunderstanding of scanners or active misinformation.

Quite the week for "radio hobbyists knowing what is going on"

1. ham radio amateur discovers Starlink using out-of-band, unpermitted downlink frequencies

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal?

2. ham radio amateur pinpoints the weather balloon that nailed UAL1093

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115410089015816867

3. ham radio amateur's website determines what is being deployed by US military to Venezuela
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/19/world/us-military-build-up-caribbean-trump-pressures-venezuela

#hamradio

In case anyone thought the VA was safe from these bullshit messages.
Czechia 1, Russia 0
#slavaukraini
@ai6yr I just got my first HF rig and got an FT-8 setup going. Any advice before trying to get contacts?

There was a time when saying things like this were completely uncontroversial.

Fascists are taking over much of the West because saying things like this has become controversial.

Edit: correction: Hitchcock didn't actually say this (see point below). My point stands. I remember lots of adults on TV saying "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi" when I was a child.

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

In honor of the trans community's new allies. /s

also: AI Slop