Jason @ve3mal@mastodon.radio

So if some poor sap #pota activator is qrs, and struggling to pull a call out of the pileup, please slow ALL the way down to their speed, and maybe skip the first round or two. Especially if they ask QRS. Being out of the shack and distracted can make it difficult to get into the groove for newbies. Signed -failed and flustered activator.

The panadapter was the first killer app on SDRs; the next one would be IF level DVR so that when you see a signal and tune to it, you could 'rewind' a few seconds and actually hear what you missed.

I decided to buck the trend. 3 feet is enough to reach a battery on the ground or the ps on the desk while minimising wiring mess.

BBC on Marconii featuring #SOTA and #CW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4Ob0v-vAY

Do you adulturate your rig's power cable?

Of course somebody has dug into these https://hackaday.io/project/176980-vtech-kidigo-walkie-talkie-analysis

Got the kids onto digimodes. Who else wants multiplayer racing games on their HTs?

My zigbee dongle in the basement wasn't picking up the sensors on the 2nd floor. I was going to buy something to be a repeater, but then my #hamradiobrain thought, "give it a better groundplane." Placed it on top of a furnace duct and boom! It works perfectly!

I did an open source thing! Minimalist contest logger "clogger" can now key CW over Hamlib directly using the rigs built in keyer! One-cable slick. https://github.com/etamme/clogger/pull/1