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Here are the toots from my Mastodon account. If you’re into ham radio and technology this is a great inclusive server with an awesome mascot called Alex.
The lineup for the GQRP club online convention looks good!
• “Building QRP transceivers” with Hans Summers G0UPL, designer and manufacturer of the QCX QRP transceiver.
• “HF propagation and QRP” with Steve Nichols G0KYA, author and chairman of the RSGB’s Propagation Studies Committee
• “Homebrew SSB Transceivers” with Pete Juliano N6QW, co-presenter of the Soldersmoke podcast and a prolific home brewer.
are just a few I could fit!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThe maintainer of hamlib has asked for bug reports/feedback on whether a number of rigs (marked alpha, beta and untested) work with WSJT-X.
There’s a list at: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37062608/
→ View toot on mastodon.radioMy 9 year old nephew has been making stop motion videos for a few weeks now.
Here’s the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBl2XzyE7rI
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→ View toot on mastodon.radioWell, I clicked the button to “tax” my car. Even though there’s no fee! And actually I’ve not really used it much for months now.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOver 400 people replied to the GQRP club’s survey about holding the convention online, and most were keen.
That’s an impressive number! When I went to the live convention a couple of years ago there were probably about 40 of us there in total!
It makes me think that when things go back to normal talks also need streaming.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioNASA have been making images of the sun every 0.75 seconds for a decade, that’s pretty amazing.
They released a video where each second is a full day, at:
I found this via: https://kottke.org/20/06/a-decade-of-sun
which also lists the days a few cool things happened.
WSJT-X 2.2.2 is out. It’s a bugfix release with some decoder speedups, so that’s cool:
It is particularly targeted for slower single board computer users such as the Raspberry Pi Model 3 or similar.
Announced at: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37043488/
And release notes at: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis article on magnetic amplifiers is really interesting: https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/the_magnetic_amplifier
→ View toot on mastodon.radioYay, my yearly fortnight of moderate stress at work is basically over, and now we move into the season of many interns.
Of course this year we got a puppy to act as a stress multiplier 😂
Here’s Kin the golden retriever. About .9.5 weeks old and made of teeth….
It’s nice to see the RSGB’s response to the Ofcom EMF consultation:
http://rsgb.org/main/files/2020/06/200605_Ofcom-EMF-Consultation_RSGB-Response.pdf
I’ve only skimmed it, but it looks to be detailed and well argued, and recommends some tweaking to license wording, rather than anything more extreme.
In my mind this is why we should be paying our national societies!
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