Mastodawn

@KC8JC thanks! Yeah, the TR-35 is aces. I don’t think I’ll find anything I prefer until I save up for a KX2, which could be quite some time.

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Jeff 11h ago

@KZ4LN I sure wish QRP Labs would make a 2m and 70cm QCX Minis. I heard an interview with Hans saying something to the effect that he wouldn’t be anytime soon, as sampling gets a lot harder up there.

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Jeff 1d ago

@kb6nu 20m CW was hopping nicely for me, plenty of folks to work but also a few places to squeeze in and run a frequency. About 3/4 of my 28 QSOs were Home or Indoor.

Jeff 1d ago

I bundled up and hiked to the lake for some Winter Field Day and POTA. I had eight hand warmers going in various spots, and had to slow my CW down for cold, gloved hands. It was a blast, though, with tons of folks on 20m CW, and my QRP signal was surprisingly effective in the crowd. With big weather on the way, I’m glad I got my radio therapy in before possibly being inside for awhile. Not only that, I got my first POTA Kilo!

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Jeff 2d ago

@bud_t Nah, that’s too big. 😉I spent too much time one afternoon searching for a cup smaller than my little Snow Peak double-wall that holds an Aeropress serving with room to spare.

Jeff 3d ago

Tim N7KOM 3d ago

Summoned for jury duty and looked the courthouse up on Google Maps. The 1 star reviews are hilarious especially from people with Google's "Local Guide" badge 🤣

Jeff 5d ago

mrdoornbos 5d ago

AI creativity always goes to the mean. It's trained on everything, so it produces the average. Ask it for a logo, and you get something that looks like every logo. Ask it for a story, and you get the structure of every story. That's useful for a lot of things — drafts, starting points, getting unstuck. But breakthrough ideas don't come from the average. They come from the edges, from the weird, from the person who sees something differently. Humans have a direction that isn't the average.

Jeff Jan 12

Archaeo-Histories Jan 11

In 1959, a cement mixer with a full load of cement, wrecked near Winganon, Oklahoma 🇺🇸

By the time a tow truck came to haul it away, all of cement had hardened inside of mixer. Tow truck was not able to remove all wreckage at same time because of weight, and decided to haul only cab/frame and would come back for detached mixer later, which never happened.

Today, 67 years later, it still sits where it fell. Locals have painted it and added "rocket thrusters" to make it look like a space capsule.

Jeff Jan 5

JA Westenberg Jan 1

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

Westenberg.

Jeff Jan 3

Ioan Jan 3

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