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VE2UWY

@VE2UWY@mastodon.radio

:: Recently repatriated Canadian - no longer "dual-nat, ex-pat" ::

:: "UNIX, Radio, Trains (not necessarily in that order)" ::

:: 30-year sysadmin :: “Don't look back, you can never look back” ::

:: 🇨🇦VE[23]UWY: TBD ::
:: 🇺🇸N5UWY : WAC 8BWAS+ DXCCx5 VUCC-50 WPXx3 WAZ ::

:: IRCA/LWCA/CIDX/WTFDA/NASWA :: Live Listener ::

:: Railfan :: Transit fan ::

:: 3rd Gen Wagon Man ::

:: #CHOWG :: Born in 1900s ::

:: I post wayyy too much nonsense ::

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helenczerski, to climate

I have just discovered that those odd waste/recycling bins that are all over the oldest bits of Bergen, Norway, link to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit and then WHOOSH... it's off to the recycling centre. All underground. No bin lorries (garbage trucks), fewer road vehicles, less noise... amazing. @davidho says that my (considerable) excitement about this is entirely unreasonable. I disagree.
https://www.envacgroup.com/how-it-works/the-envac-system/

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@helenczerski @davidho

Why go to the trouble of separated receptacles if the material is immediately single-streamed?

M0CUV, to hamradio
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Here’s a oddity.. I have an FT857&SignaLink that work fine for WSJT-X. I tried recording the audio with Audacity and even with its mic gain at max, recorded audio was very weak. I changed to FM, and used a low-power Baofeng to transmit some voice. S9+++ signal at the 857… but again, very low recorded audio. Turned up the RX control on the SignaLink, but not much louder recording. Do 857’s just emit very low audio through their “data” connector?

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@M0CUV Forgive me, 'cause I'm sleepy, but I think so-called DATA connectors are line-level ports, not speaker level.

heliomass, to Montreal

“1970 Quebec October crisis revisited in Montreal video game” https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/12/31/montreal-video-game-1970-quebec-october-crisis/

This looks really interesting.

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@heliomass

When I tell people that I once lived under Martial Law, they clearly think I’m confused or nuts or lying. Scary time for a 7 year old … and everyone else.

gutenberg_org, to science
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Canadian biochemist & organic chemist Maud Lenora Menten was born in 1879.

She made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, & invented a procedure that remains in use. She is most famous for her collaboration with German biochemist Leonor Michaelis in developing the Michaelis-Menten equation, a fundamental concept in enzyme kinetics. This equation describes the rate of enzymatic reactions and is crucial in understanding how enzymes function.

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Which guy stole her notebook and got a Nobel?

MLE_online, to random
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Thinking about the time I wrote to a guy at work named Joe, but I accidentally wrote "Hi Hoe"

VE2UWY,
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@MLE_online @kwf

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MLE_online, to random
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Does anyone on here know a lot about analog telephones? I am trying to figure out how to wire this telephone up for a friend of mine and I am stumped because there are only three wires and I am used to phones having four wires.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

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@MLE_online

Very cool!

Hook switch is, I think, the o-fishy-al Bell System term and it's on the wiring diagram you posted.

I gather from the docs that this is not Western Electric?

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@MLE_online I'm far enough behind that someone has surely pointed you at the "ringer equivalence number" (REN). I think that was something that came out of the destruction of the Bell System ... I mean, the breakup of the monopoly. Not sure older (real) phones have RENs but you can probably find a ref online that lets you estimate what you need to ring what will be the most awesome bell.

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@MLE_online

My Mom told me, a long time ago, that when I was a baby -- so, like, late '63/early '64! -- that a Bell (Canada) tech would come around every afternoon at nap time to silence the ringer on the phone. Even if you turned the mech ringer all the way down, they were still loud enough to disturb a baby, I guess. I have NO IDEA if this was just a story or if that was an actual service the telco offered. Hard to believe if true.

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@MLE_online No idea! Maybe I should dig into that before anyone who would remember is dead (Mom died at the end of '19 but had been ravaged by Alzheimer's for several years before that). Hmm. I wonder if any phone books are online from that era? Off to archive.org!

N4JAW, to random
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"Return of a Wanna-Be Jedi"

https://hamonabike.blogspot.com/2024/03/return-of-wanna-be-jedi.html

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@N4JAW YOU'RE BACK! So Happy! ... Except ... you're ... in front of a sign ...

Sincerely hope you are well and I, for one, have missed your QRP shenanigans!

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@N4JAW

Oh. I read the blog post. Had no idea (though we'd heard chatter about the s*it you were subjected to on-air). Very very happy you have found a way forward that seems to be working well.

GottaLaff, to random
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👎🏻NYT—The NFL star Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura, the former Minnesota governor, top the running mate list of the longshot candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy said he had been speaking with Rodgers “pretty continuously” for the past month.

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@GottaLaff

Has Rodgers actually talked back or is this just in "RFK"'s dead?

MLE_online, to random
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I found this thing lying on the sidewalk yesterday. It is atrociously marketed as a disposable vape.

There's not much to it, but it has a usb-c port, so it must have a rechargeable battery. It also must have some kind of heating element, a reservoir for The vape juice, and some way of knowing to turn on the heating element when you're inhaling

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@MLE_online Ewwwww I hope you sterilized that before ... well, anything ...

croyle, to hamradio
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I decided to re-enlist (heh) in the . There are small but positive signs of progress there, and I figure that they probably dismiss complaints/observations from non-members out of hand... My hope is that they step up and show some actual leadership with regard to politics, diversity, hate speech, etc. It's a ridiculously low bar but it would be a further step in the right direction.

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@croyle I'm a Lifer so sort of stuck. :) DEI aside, they don't do well w/their existing programs, being the most poorly managed, followed by their awards programs. WAY too much manual intervention for the latter, poor vision for the former.

AFAIK, the ARRL Forklift is still running around the ARRL Book Warehouse as if it's 1984.

They are failing on many fronts, sadly.

One good thing they did before the recent ball-dropping was to allow members access to all 4 periodicals.

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@croyle is great when it works. When it broke badly in '11, members stepped up. K1MU redid the digital pen used to sign logs (TQSL) & improved it greatly. Their fee structure is broken as it is & could be fixed in a revenue-neutral (maybe even R+!) but they won't hear of it because no one currently at actually knows how LOTW works so they are reluctant to change anything.

They are a "tech club" w/a lot of guys (almost all white guys) running it that don't understand modern tech.

heliomass, to random

The more famous structure in Jean-Drapeau Park: The Biosphere. Never stops impressing me when I see it.

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@heliomass

I can attest to the fact that it was much more impressive when you could ride through it on the Mini-rail and see the Apollo capsule — AS-202, I think, suborbital unmanned test flight — hanging from its chutes … especially when you were low single digits yourself.

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@heliomass @heliomass The plastic covering caught fire c.1976. I remember my Mom had it on the TV when I got home from school. I gather no one wanted to pay to install a new one (it's not like it was a defective sports venue) and it decayed from there.

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@heliomass @heliomass

The roof thing ... woof ... I can remember in the 80s, nearly a decade after the games, the special rubber-tired train that was used to transport the roof from the climate-controlled warehouse in, I think, VStP to the stadium in preparation for finally installing it. The tower was eventually topped out, but at least some of the the sections above the bowl were steel and not the concrete Taillibert specified because the ground couldn't support it as designed!

MLE_online, to random
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Both grass and ants had barely started to evolve by the Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs were at their peak.

A world without grass or ants means that the dinosaurs never got to have an authentic picnic experience.

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@MLE_online I find this sad.

ai6yr, to Blizzard
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I hope these truckers packed food. #DonnerSummit #DonnerPass #blizzard #CAwx #snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL9ectO13gA

Red semi with a man in it. Snow up past the hood. The semi is not moving.

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@ai6yr

Possible language issues aside, a large fraction of drivers probably saw the warnings and said "no dam gubmint gonna tell me what to do! The hell do they know?"

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Someone (follower) just DMd me accusing me of being a 'drag on support' of Dems.

Why? He said "we're all supporting the democracy coalition", & I explained that many in my replies are angry, not supportive. He accused me of something something Hillary's emails re Biden... not sure what that meant, but it was offensive.

If anyone ever accuses me of not supporting Biden in this election, they haven't read my TL or listened to me on air.

Talk about offensive. I blocked.

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@GottaLaff

It's surely not expensive to buy negative comments/DMs/etc in Russia.

Nice -ing

VE2UWY, to random
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Beginning to think that Dr Leonard McCoy was the worst physician in the Starfleet. Seemed to be adequate medically, but as an officer? Wow, he should have been cashiered out long before the 3rd season. Racist, always questioning command. Really bad.

rasterweb, (edited ) to art
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I did one more sketch today, and it’s a 1975 Ford Econoline Van, just like the one a late 1980’s punk band would have toured in…

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@rasterweb was that the first year they pushed the nose out?

heliomass, to LEGO

And so as we reach the end of the cold season, the Winter Comet having hung on the wall since the start of November will be retired in a few mere hours…

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@heliomass Galactic Optimist.

MLE_online, to random
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This was once KRLA, an AM radio station that played oldies.

I learned what it was after seeing the property finally sold after sitting vacant for decades.

The old building still stood on this spot, empty, until a few years ago.

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@MLE_online

I think this is "that" KRLA. And copper, probably.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=44370&.pdf

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