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Support Your Parks - POTA Event This Weekend in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Supposed to be freezing and rainy here. Not sure I'll make it out to a park, but I'll try my best to hunt for y'all!

No Ham License? Listen Anyway In Your Browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

tracking is mostly done via software. the airplane, satellite, boat, etc will have some way of transmitting data (lat/long, speed, weather data...) and a receiving station (for instance, a computer a ham operator controls) will pick up that transmission and usually post it somewhere. An example would be something like APRS

Ham operators themselves can track in a way. When you are communicating with another ham, you will usually give your callsign, location, other pertinent info, and then you can log/record that you talked to someone from a certain area.

No Ham License? Listen Anyway In Your Browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

GREAT answer. It's funny how I got into ham radio because I thought it seemed a cool way to talk to people... and now I almost never use voice and mostly do what you listed above.

Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wow they really need to get in check. I do have the screenshots

Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (10 children)

I guess Andy or the proton social media team has started using the corporate bluesky account to discuss it now.

https://bsky.app/profile/proton.me/post/3lfrqm6wpzs2p

Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you must pass the general exam before taking the amateur extra exam.

has been HOPPIN this week. Makes me happy to see people using lemmy.radio in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ha sorry. Forgot mentioning the account from another service would create a post here. But still happy to see y’all!

Fediverse review platform in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I just moved everything from goodreads to bookwyrm and it was painless.

Holiday SSTV Experiment from the International Space Station in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

I’ve had sats/ISS on my list of things to learn for a while. Maybe 2025 will be the year I get that yagi built.

Proton Wallet user experience and security model | Proton in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I doubt I ever use it. There are some niceties about it I guess like Send/Receive Bitcoin by Email.

I imagine if you don't know how to use bitcoin and you don't have an online wallet, this is good to have. But honestly, if you're already privacy minded, I don't see why this is even a feature.

Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Nice! I did the exact same thing. Remote exam in my bathroom. Congrats on the tech and general. If you plan on the extra, do it before you forget anything from the general because there's a lot of carry over from the test.

Asmongold's Twitch Channel Banned Following Racist Rant About Palestinians - IGN in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Once the dead rat and blood wall were cleaned up, the stream really went down hill

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ARRL paid $1M ransom to hackers (arrl.org)
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MFJ is ceasing its on-site production (mailchi.mp)
 

Production line stops on May 17th. This also means its other brands will be gone soon too:

  • Ameritron
  • Hy-Gain
  • Cushcraft
  • Mirage
  • Vectronics
  • MDS-HAM
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Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI (science.nasa.gov)
 

As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as “hams,” is gearing up for an exciting project

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Devastating Hawaii Wildfires Prompt Response from Amateur Radio Emergency Service (www.arrl.org)
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Break Free From Proprietary Digital Radio (hackaday.com)
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Amateur Radio: From a Hobby to a Career (tryengineering.org)
 

Before there was an Internet, before there were Cellphones, before there was Zoom or WebEx or Skype or anyone of a number of Voice over the Internet (VOIP); there was Ham Radio. The promise of talking to people not just in our own community but all over the world made the idea of Ham Radio exciting.

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Amateur Radio Fun in the Colorado Mountains - August 4 through 7, 2023 #sota (www.ham14er.org)
 

This event is normally held the first full weekend in August. Again this year, we will add two bonus days to the Colorado 14er Event. The main two days remain Saturday and Sunday (5-6 August), while the bonus days are Friday 4th August 2023 and Monday 7th August 2023, for those SOTA enthusiasts that need more than two days of SOTA fun!

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What's in your SOTA Pack? (lemmy.radio)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have a few different variations depending one what mode or antenna I want to try.

Usually though:

  • IC-705
  • Endfedz 10/20/40 Trail Friendly
  • paddle or mic
  • 20' collapsible mast
  • log book (rite in the rain)
  • in-ear headphones

Of course a water dish and treats if my dog, Nora, is traveling with me.

I'll keep all of that in a Maxpedition 12-Inch X 5-Inch Bottle Holder

Backpack if I'm able to really minimize is the Nathan Trail 12-liter

There's a few extras in the pic that I may bring, like a coffee thermos for short hikes on cold days, YAKTRAX spikes in case it's icey, and a headlamp.

What do you SOTA with?

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Senate committee passes bill to require AM radio remains in vehicle dashboards (drgnews.com)
 

With near-unanimous bipartisan support, a bill that would help ensure AM radio remains in vehicle dashboards is moving quickly in Congress.

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Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios (www.vice.com)
 

The TETRA standard is used in radios worldwide. Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in the underlying cryptography and its implementation, including issues that allow for the decryption of traffic.

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Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH - July 22 (www.radiomarine.org)
 

The MRHS in cooperation with our good friends at the Cipher History Museum will send a coded message in 5-letter groups via the facilities of coast stations KPH on Saturday July 22, 2023 Pacific time. The message will be encrypted using the famous Enigma code machine and is an authentic message sent by a U-boat in the North Atlantic in 1942.

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Please please please encourage new operators (www.kb6nu.com)
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