📷 The view West from the porch, 9:17 PM.
The stars were so many there
They seemed to overlap — 10,000 Maniacs.
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Coffee drinker, plant eater. Nascent amateur radio operator despite a decade old license: I like taking tests. Aspirant silversmith, sometimes mandolinist. FOSS stuff, cyberpunk and high fantasy. Anti-corporate, jewelry photographer by trade. pfp: me in a felt hat and sunglasses hiking Angeles Crest NE of Sylmar, CA header: computer simulation of particle traces from a LHC collision producing a Higgs-Boson
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The Lying, The B**ch, and the Boardroom
Charlotte‘s Org Chart
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The Old Man and C-Suite
Paradise Lost
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The Old Man And The CEO
Catcher in the KPI
@kb9ens I like trying to vary my learning routine. I think it’s good to not be too comfortable in one presentation so this is good.
Currently I’m okay head copying 3-4 letter words at 20wpm, but this is recent progress. Need to keep pushing.
Purchased a built-from-kit QRP labs QMX from another ham. Wired up a little 12v buck regulator in a power cable and powered up—receive for phone seems good on 20m and 40m. Pretty excited to operate remote!
Going to the local library to print a microphone case and a stand; thinking an Emtech tuner is a good place to start kit building.
Thoughts on a set of paddles for learning and outdoor ops?
#amateurradio #hamradio #qrp #cw
Edit for spelling.
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A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.
Credit: Roger P. Hangarter
@kb9ens this is new to me—thanks for sharing! I managed to copy at 30wpm which sort of amazed me. Maybe I need to push my Farnsworth speed up on Morse Mania. I felt as if I heard the rhythm better at a higher rate.
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Seriously, y’all: post your fuckups! May everyones’ mirror neurons feast upon tales our resilience.
My go: I’ve been trying to make a Yagi for Meshtastic because stock antenna, house construction, and geography.
I started with a W6NBC Yagi, but burnt hours trying to make a hairpin match work. The antenna was always better for 1050Hz than 915Hz.
It was only while griping later I realised I forgot to measure and tune the half-wave dipole before I added the reflector and directors. #HamRadio
I Wand You to Wand Me
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I'm sorry, I just watched Switch Angel live-coding trance loops in G-minor using Strudel, so serious and magnificent is the only valid answer for me right now!
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This guy made a Synthetic Aperture Radar (i.e. a radar that gives you camera-like pictures) mounted on a drone. Scroll to the bottom for actual sample pictures and a movie. Lots of tech detail and open-source designs and software.
https://hforsten.com/synthetic-aperture-radar-autofocus-and-calibration.html
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Drumtroddan Standing Stones, near Monreith. A row of possibly once four or five stones, aligned north east/south west. Two of the stones now lay fallen, with just a single stone, the eastern-most still standing.
#StandingStoneSunday #Scotland #blackandwhitephotography
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Elizabeth and I are off to explore a part of town (metro Cleveland, Ohio) that is unfamiliar to us—we moved here two years ago. Then a nice hike with our adventure Pomeranian, Neville:
The Cake the Thief His Wife and Her Lover
O Batter Where Art Thou
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