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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.
Interesting news on the new Nvidia Jeston boards on the “other” site: https://twitter.com/F5OEOEvariste/status/1116368783982174208
These are small form factor machines with a load of GPU cores, and they look a bit beefier than RPis. Could be fun!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis story about repairing the Salyut 7 space station is amazing: https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-soviet-mission-to-rescue-a-dead-space-station/
Found through an awesome colleague who I’ve yet to convince needs a #hamradio license. He’s heard too many “grumpy old man” stories and is a bit shy.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioJoined AMSAT-UK but managed to mistype my callsign on the application form! Whoops 😳
→ View toot on mastodon.radioLooks like there are more IIS #sstv transmissions ongoing: https://amsat-uk.org/2019/03/26/iss-sstv-transmissions-april-1-2/
Unfortunately there are (probably) no useful passes over the UK during the campaign: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom®ion=England&city=Bath but hopefully some other people on here will grab some images!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioRealising I don’t find DXing all that interesting, but I can see why people think getting to Bouvet is basically impossible!
https://bouvetoya.org/3yoi-postponed/
I’m glad everyone is OK.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioGhosts in the Airglow: https://www.ghostsintheairglow.space/about
This is a pretty fascinating #radio idea!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis PDF guide “Transmitting on QO100” looks useful: http://www.oe8hsr.at/blog/?p=448
There’s a lot of fun Es’Hail-2 stuff appearing, going to have to dive in at some point.
(via: https://twitter.com/MeltdownCore/status/1108470095200862209)
→ View toot on mastodon.radioMistakenly tried to crimp the solderable centre pin of a BNC connector. Ruined my expectations by reading about amphenol connectors and then buying cheap ones! 😭
→ View toot on mastodon.radioI found http://flaws.cloud/ fascinating. A look into the complexity of AWS and the security mistakes you can quite easily make. #security #cloud
→ View toot on mastodon.radioIf anyone in the UK is looking for some cheap #hamradio gear there’s 15% off electronics on eBay today: https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Ham-Amateur-Radio-Equipment/4670/bn_1631638?rt=nc&LH_BIN=1 up to £50 discount.
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