Matt W1CDN @W1CDN@mastodon.radio
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Slowly finding time for radio. Jack of many interests. NW Minnesota, USA.
Joined Apr 2022
Are there really no CW skimmers in the middle of North America for reversebeacon.net? Should I figure out how to do this?
Matt W1CDN
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#WMPLOTA (Walmart Parking Lots On The Air) is back for another year!
https://wmplota.org/
#hamradio #amateurradio
Matt W1CDN
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One of y'all shared a spreadsheet or table of #qrp radios a while back. I remember it as an image or PDF. Could you share it again?
In case anyone else can benefit, I've just been dumping random #MorseCode practice files into a pdocast on my server.
@morse_practice is the fediverse address. No guarantees of consistency in updates or specific speeds!
Matt W1CDN
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Using Linux or Raspberry Pi for Field Day and looking for a logger?
Cheers to #AEOBA, but I'm definitely not skilled enough to not be distracted by having live CW on in the background. Maybe recordings would be OK.
Oof. Traded callsigns and sent a signal report on CW. That's about all my poor brain could process while trying to do other work.
Matt W1CDN
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Here is the archive of yesterday's SDF Amateur Radio Club weekly NET on #echolink node 9229. The question was "Do you use Mastodon to promote amateur radio?" and in particular I mentioned mastodon.radio a few times during my check in as there are many stations across the #fediverse gathering here and registering their call signs. You can listen to the archive here:
https://archives.anonradio.net/202205230000_sdfarc.mp3
There were 11 check ins and 2 new stations.
Wow, bad at explaining my target audience! #hamRadio #amateurRadio
I may have asked this before. Anyone #onHere have experience volunteering for endurance events (ultra runs, etc.) and want to share thoughts?
I'm reaching out to local hams about volunteering, but we also have long events with sometimes low numbers. Could be long periods between racers coming through. Is this a turnoff for volunteers, or shouldn't I worry about it?
Matt W1CDN
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Working on the new blog post today. The most notable product covered in this 1986 "Chronicles" episode was probably QuoTrek, which might have been the first commercially available device for receiving wireless data.
QuoTrek relied on FM radio signals to receive live stock quotes. In the early 1980s, the FCC had approved the use of subbands to transmit data. Basically, local FM radio stations would piggyback the QuoTrek data on their signals.
The noise is coming from inside the house! #hamRadio #amateurRadio
Anyone have this problem with #GridTracker? In the title bar it says how many calls were heard and how many should be listed in the roster, but the roster is empty. This is on Windows, version 1.21.1217. #hamRadio #amateurRadio
Finally set this antenna up and hunted some #pota (1 QSO) from the backyard. Pretty low horizontal, but I had handy hooks from a dog run we don't use.
Lots less noise vs the attic fan dipole!
Lead-acid battery and IC-7300 for portability.
It works! Whipped up a bash script to start with screen and detach:
#!/bin/bash
screen -dmS arNetSked python3 /home/pi/arNetSked/arNetSked.py -s ./arNetSked/example_sked.cfg -c W1CDN-1 -h 192.168.0.30 -p 8001
Found a chance to fool around with #arNetSked to send out scheduled #APRS beacons.
https://github.com/ufergus/arNetSked
For some reason, I thought this required more fooling with direwolf, but it really just uses the host network connection.
- Grid Square
- EN17
Slowly finding time for radio. Jack of many interests. NW Minnesota, USA.
Joined Apr 2022
