@Steve @ve3mal Right? Let's transition by doing the thing we're already doing but in ways that make you think we're changing.
Reminds me of the huge ramp-up in plastic usage that's been going on for decades, with the fossil fuel industry planning on increasing plastics usage 3x by 2050 (you know, to "compensate" for EVs not using gas).
@ve3mal 100%
It's the base-level language of the Status Quo brain
@ve3mal @susankayequinn A closely related phenomenon is talking about fossil fuels as a "transition" to renewables. Apparently, we're meant to believe that the way to make a change is by not changing anything.
@susankayequinn My favorite brain-breaking propaganda is "We can't stop using fossil fuels overnight!" -It hit's all the buttons. It's a) technically true, b) not what anyone is actually advocating, and c) ALWAYS leads to the logic that less or nothing should be done right now to start transitioning away from fossil fuels.
It's used to sell pipelines, expanded oil extraction, kill renewable energy projects and even basic economic incentives for transition.
I recently came across Kiwix, an offline website application. It's fascinating how slick it is. On both my phone and laptop, I loaded some of the smaller sites like top wikipedia, some stack overflow topics, the arch wiki, etc., and it can full text search everything at once, lighting fast. Better than the online websites or using a search engine! And useful when away from internet! Take a look: wiki.kiwix.org
@Npars01 @WJBL @GottaLaff @lolgop Why would a "taxpayer's federation" not be funded by actual "taxpayers"? He asks knowing the answer.
Launch! SpaceX CRS-30 is on the way to the ISS, carrying the ARISS HamTV unit!
Go NASA, Go SpaceX, Go HamTV!
KPH is such a cool bit of living history #morse #hamradio https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/ann-hermes-morse-code/677468/
Just some silly images of what AI thinks a #pota operator looks like: https://imgur.com/a/IOSjCrY #hamradio
The "cheap, portable" Shortwave 2.0 transceiver wouldn't necessarily be a DRM receiver, but it *could* be a small box that spins around the dial on a schedule and records audio and radiogram texts to a USB drive that can then be shared around locally. Inspired by these thoughts: https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/why-we-need-shortwave-2-0
@K3can @hamradio Latency over just about any VOIP type system is going to be about a 1/4 second at worst if properly configured. Not an issue with FT8 clocks, and you could potentially fudge the clock a little to counteract some of that. PCM/WAV, ulaw, or opus are all extremely fast to encode/decode and should work fine. A little fidelity is lost on opus, being a lossy codec, but at a high quality setting, should be fine.
Nice interesting article written by Kim Andrew Elliott, a strong advocate of shortwave radio, and why no more shortwave broadcasters shouldn't close any more....which we radio enthousiasts will agree 😀 #hamr #SWL #shortwave
https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/why-we-need-shortwave-2-0
Seeing lots of red-tailed hawks along the river this winter. I can never seem to get the camera up in time when they are headed at me and usually catch them flying away. At least in this shot you get a good look at that torpedo body and those amazing wings.
(01/31/24)
#hawks #raptors #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText
He was licensed in 1933, and by 1938: "I discovered that my great interest was to be able to build things that you could carry with you that would be portable - I enjoyed taking things out and taking batteries along with me to a park and being able to operate portable." Well look at that #pota in the 1930s! #DLARC
Listening to Al Gross W8PAL interviewed in 1991 on the "Ham Radio and More" show discussing the history of ham radio. He starts with his memory of building a crystal radio in 1930 and hearing 160m hams. https://archive.org/details/hamradioandmore_1991-08-04 #DLARC
I made my own version of K3NG's Arduino CW keyer. Using an Arduino Nano. All components were sourced from AliExpress. The PCB was designed in KiCad. It will be used to key the Xiegu X6100 during next Region 1 CW fieldday.
https://github.com/k3ng/k3ng_cw_keyer/wiki
Will be documented in detail on https://www.golb.be/nano-keyer/
Gerber files and links to the components will be shared.
@va3db: I noticed this on the DLARC wishlist -do you know anyone who might have "Anything from Ottawa (ON) Amateur Radio Club Packet Working Group relating to high speed Packet Radio, especially the “Packet Interface” (PI) card that the PWG developed, and any newsletters." https://archive.org/details/dlarc-wantlist