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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.
Another podcast I just devoured is 13 Minutes to the Moon. Definitely recommend it if you’ve not listened yet!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2
Started reading about USB (unified S-Band this time!) as used by the Apollo program. It was pretty advanced and used the 2 GHz band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_S-band
→ View toot on mastodon.radioEvery time I try to update my website my hacky Hugo theme develops new problems. I think I need to start using a third party (maintained) theme!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioJust finished listening to the Bellingcat Podcast on MH17. Definitely recommend it: https://www.bellingcat.com/category/resources/podcasts/
→ View toot on mastodon.radioHad a quick go with a mini whip antenna (in my loft) any my new HF+ discovery.
I powered it with a cheap lab PSU and the noise floor raised enormously from ~ -85 dB to -60 dB with regularly spaced carriers.
Definitely amplifying a load of crud from in my house and presumably the PSU isn’t helping!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioI guess you that know masto has taken off when you get spammy follows!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioI’m not sure if this was the result of some sort of rift, but https://groups.io/g/RSGB-Workshop looks like it might be an interesting group.
Also, unlike the RSGBTechnical group which (confusingly) isn’t anything to do with the RSGB, this looks to have been setup by one of the RadCom authors.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioGot my Airspy HF+ Discovery!
Had to pay some fairly hefty import tax but this looks pretty nice.
Shame all the most user friendly and feature rich software is Windows only. I’d love SDR# for Linux or Mac.
Renewed my ARRL subscription and added QEX as it looks fun. Looking forward to yet another radio mag to read 😃
→ View toot on mastodon.radioGot a copy of the new English translation of Rothammel’s antenna book.
What a beast this is! It has more in it than I would have thought possible and nearly 1600 pages.
This looks like a decent Kicad tutorial: https://github.com/MalphasWats/hawk (seen via hackaday https://hackaday.com/2019/07/29/a-new-kicad-tutorial-hits-the-scene/ A New KiCAD Tutorial Hits the Scene)
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