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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.
Nice idea: triple ended USB cable with a built in hub.
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/sparkfun-cerberus-usb-cable-6ft
also:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/sparkfun-hydra-power-cable-6ft
→ View toot on mastodon.radio“you’ve not lived if you’ve not ggVG=”
“impossible to exit so might as well learn how to use it”
→ View toot on mastodon.radio#TIL: /dev/serial/by-id/ has persistently named serial devices on #Linux.
Perfect if your serial ports keep swapping over when you reboot or plug/unplug things, just use these in places of /dev/ttyUSB$no.
I don’t know when this magical feature appeared but it beats messing with dev rules. 💻📻
WSJT-X 2.0 GA has dropped. Let’s hope for a swift and orderly adoption!
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
… and the all important release notes:
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOhh, just realised I passed my Foundation Exam a year ago yesterday!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioFascinating stuff on NASA TV: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public Not much to see, but the prep it takes to open the hatches is impressive!
“Select the 10 amp setting on the multimeter”
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis weekend I build a cheap Chinese CNC engraver. I don’t have any specific uses for it in mind (maybe making some PCBs eventually) but fancied making something a mechanical, and the total cost was under £150.
The thing didn’t come with instructions, but I found some for a similar unit and I guess it took about 6 hours to build.
I think adding limit switches is a must and to do anything more than simple engraving will need a spindle upgrade, but so far, so fun!
Seeing a lot more FT8 v2 activity now. I wonder if this is because of the FT8 roundup contest.
https://pskreporter.info/cgi-bin/pskstats.pl shows a lot more RC5 users than the other RC versions, which is great.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioAs predicted RC5 of WSJT-X was released. 🕵️♂️
Looks like the most visible change is making the Auto Seq checkbox setting sticky.
https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/36477663/
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