Jack (KD4IZ)

QRP portable ops including SOTA, Appalachian Trail Maintainer, NCS for ECARS 7.255. US Coast Guard veteran and trustee for NR3DT, USCGC WHEC-37 Museum Ship Radio Group . Retired Periodontist and PhD Microbiologist. Eclectic enough for ya?

2025-06-26

@N3VEM Also try out Emack and Bolio’s… Newbury Street location… they have “chainified” but are still good.

2025-06-17

@N3VEM Yeah… there is a 1949 am/fm console crying for my attention… no excuses from me, just haven’t found a big enough “round tuit”!

2025-06-17

@N3VEM Tube unit? It prolly needs most if not all caps replaced.

2025-06-13
2025-06-13

Did anyone else receive an alert notification today from “DC Water” stating a boil water advisory? WTF is that about? Intimidation for Saturday activities?

2025-06-01

@ku2y Great way to increase exposure. Thoroughly enjoyed standing in for you at Hamvention. Hope you are back with us next year and providing your great commentary.

Jack (KD4IZ) boosted:
Alan Johnston, KU2Yku2y@mastodon.radio
2025-06-01

I spend a lot of my time on this #OpenSource hardware and software #HamRadio project. We have a limited number of no solder kits available next week for your classroom or #STEM outreach: The #AMSAT #CubeSatSim, the #CubeSat Simulator:

amsat.org/ans-152-amsat-news-s

2025-05-11

#caturday Both at it today… one was treewalking, the other got tired playing in the garden and passed out in my wife’s chair as soon as she got up from dinner.

snoozer cat on Mom’s chair… woulda been my chair if I got up firstno branch too small to walk on for this little cat
2025-05-03

#Caturday A break from radio:
Two dudes chilling out…

A Golden Retriever and Maine Coon Cat stretched out on a ile floor on a warm. day.
2025-04-15

@N3VEM Sounds good! I have lost track… what transceiver are you controlling?

2025-04-15

@N3VEM just checked the NCS schedule and I am still on for Wednesday so I should be there. Please give a call if you hear me KD4IZ. 40M has been weird of late going from quite long early to NVIS QSB midday. I’ve had to work to get 20 check-ons on the log,~30 is more typical when the band is stable.

2025-04-14

@N3VEM Interesting! Receive and transmit functioning well? I’d love to hear. So check in with me at 11 - 12 Wednesdays on 7.255 MHz, I may not be NCS this week due to a family medical issue, but definitely there after (except Hamvention Week). ECARS.

2025-03-23

Yahbut… read the fine print. May not be an all in one if the RPi board used doesn’t provide the memory or the HP. Wait a cycle or two after the bleeding edge adopters all help Farhan get the bugs worked out and report on the HF-Signals feed on. groups.io. (a happy uBitx builder/owner here)

2025-03-22

#caturday #catsofmastodon Now a brief break from fear and loathing…

Cat on a farmhouse porch
Jack (KD4IZ) boosted:
Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3wb2ifs@mastodon.hams.social
2025-03-19

It’s curious to watch some #hamradio operators torture logic to remain “#apolitical” even as #fcc is planning to undermine the regulatory framework of licensure. ‘“Your silence will not protect you.” - Audre Lorde

2025-03-03

@ve3qbz It does have that effect on one! Many years after an unplanned trip into St Johns on USCGC Chase because we lost a surface radar. Delightful respite from the North Atlantic Ice Patrol, some excellent R&R, including great sight seeing and a couple of Screech sodden nights watching hockey at its finest. I want to get back in the late spring or summer though!

Jack (KD4IZ) boosted:
2025-02-15

Applied for a role in a different division of the company I work for, where I'd be involved in stuff that is much more "my bag." Even as an internal employee I had to go through the bot and a recruiter first, but luckily I got a referral from someone I've worked with in the past who is in that group. Got notice today that I at least made it past the pre-review recruiter pile, and that my resume was in the hands of the hiring manager. Now I wait and see if I get picked for an interview🤞

2025-02-12

@N3VEM @kr1st blue flame club! nomex u-trou a must!

Jack (KD4IZ) boosted:
:bun: Stellar 🇫🇷 :blahaj:Stellar@mk.absturztau.be
2025-02-10

rate my new humidifier COUGH COUGH

2025-01-14

@mountainwitch Have you looked at openoffice? Went that way and never looked back.

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