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Over 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!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOhh, WSJT-X 2.2.1 was released with some bug and regression fixes. Get it at http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
See: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37031060/ for the announcement.
Release notes at: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
Looks like it’s worth grabbing for the fixes. It’s interesting that they statically link their own hamblib that’s much more recent than the last release.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThe GQRP club convention is running remotely this year.
I have mixed feelings about this. I’m increasingly of the opinion that if I can’t physically go to the thing then I’m going to find it hard to make time for it.
There’s a survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F7CNQS6 which is also open to interested non-members.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioWent to a virtual club meeting last night, which was pretty interesting.
Roy G0VFS’s “VirusPerplexed” bug key is pretty amazing - https://sites.google.com/site/hamradiog0vfs/projects/virusperplexed-key?authuser=0
especially when you consider he made it using photos of Vibroplex keys.
The RSGB posted a pic of it as well: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/radio-amateurs/2020/05/08/roy-bailey-g0vfs-morse-key-lockdown-project/
I’m jealous of all these people with all this free time!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioWSJT-X 2.2.0 GA is out.
Details at: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37027511/
Release notes at: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
The release cycle seems to have been focused on decoder and hamlib improvements.
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