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Geojoek

@Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social

"This is why I got into ham radio. The thrill; the adrenaline rush. Never knowing if that DX is going to be a QSO with Death. Nothing beats that kind of high."

he/they

Geographer / Cartographer / GIS jack of all trades occupying Mohican, Pocumtuk, Nipmuc, Abenaki and kin homelands (FN32). Former geologist and geologic mapper. For worse or better, now a reluctant academic sans PhD.

#nobridge - don't put the onus on us to opt-out. Your bluesky bridge should be opt-in only, broflake.

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ai6yr, to random

One of the local universities advertising "50 and Better" classes including courses/lectures on Frank Sinatra, 1950's swing, and "Over The Rainbow" makes me wonder why they are conflating Gen X folks with the boomers here... ("just over 50" are folks who grew up with U2, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.) 🤔

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@smallerdemon @ai6yr

Youngest Gen-X here, at least culturally.

I feel like this is part of the same phenomena that doesn't acknowledge that the eldest millenials' kids are now in highschool, if not college.

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 33: Full on dystopia at the University of North Carolina's commencement ceremony yesterday.

Geojoek,
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@fkamiah17

I bet that went over real well with the parents / potential future alumni donors.

ai6yr, to H5N1

LA Times: Despite H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowed https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

Geojoek,
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@sepdroid @ai6yr @BakerRL75

When I was in my late 20s and early 30s I got into the whole Sally Fallon/Nourishing Traditions / Weston A. Price thing. And in my 40s, I learned how a lot of those philosophies, plus the overlap with Waldorf education, came out of the 1920s-1930s eugenics movement… and then a whole bunch of things suddenly made a lot of sense about many of the people I met then, and their almost fanatical devotion to raising natural, pure, unblemished children.

Geojoek, to amateurradio
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On air 3.960 MHz just to see if it will work.

As always, check my QRZ page to see which frequency I am on In case it does not get updated here

Geojoek,
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Now 18.140

Geojoek,
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Wow, just made a contact Responding to my CQ deep out of the noise In California on 17. So the band is working! Just barely…

Geojoek,
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Stomped on by KF0LJM being an alligator running 750w even though I made a qso with another ham right near him not 5 minutes earlier.

QSY to 18.146

Geojoek, to random
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"$200+ for an arborist throw line launcher!?!? I can make my own for $20".

It.... kind of works? (Video in thread).

The surgical tubing I bought isn't quite robust enough and it turns out pouches to hold the throw bag are a whole school of engineering unto themselves. I ended up spending $35 on a replacement pouch + tubing from an actual arborist throw line launcher. So am in $55 but that's still a lot cheaper than buying one.

Geojoek,
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The homemade arborist throw-line launcher in action.

Video of the home-made arborist throw line launcher in action, from the perspective of the person using it, launching a bright orange throw-bag and yellow throw-line about 30 feet into the air and landing in an unkempt backyard.

Geojoek, to random
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2m antenna deployment at the QTH a success..

ai6yr, to Medicine

BBC: Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123 #medicine #animals

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

Awesome! And one would think think BBC would do a 1 minute search to avoid that headline: animals self-medicating Is something that’s been observed for millennia. Heck, I remember reading about it in a biology textbook in the 1990s / it’s been long postulated that that is where humans learned plant medicine from a million years ago.

Anyway:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1235824

https://blog.nature.org/2016/06/20/self-medication-wildlife-style-how-birds-creatures-medicinal-plants/

Geojoek, to amateurradio
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Birthday #POTA commence. Starting high moving lower as the day wears on. Currently 28.408 MHz. Will try to post updates in the replies, but cell signal is sketchy.

But check my QRZ page to see what frequency in case I forget to post here: https://www.qrz.com/db/KC1SRI

Geojoek,
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Wow, getting no replies on 10 m even though my waterfall is pretty busy. Going to switch to a lower band and see if I can get some love 😂

Geojoek,
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Now 18.139

Geojoek,
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@croyle

Pray to the propagation gods for me lol. I’m getting out there, but it just doesn’t seem like a lot of people are hearing me.

Geojoek, to random
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SOTAData and QSOMaps seem to have errors with Leaflet.js not drawing all the QSOs for a given activation in spite of correct filter settings, so I guess I really am going to have to get serious about writing this Python script to make better QSO maps. 😂

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@ai6yr

Oddly that's something that should be fairly easy but, mysteriously, isn't. I haven't played around with JavaScript in a quite a few years (Leaflet.js is brilliant but I hate JavaScript), and was a novice at using it, but I'll eventually give it a go.

I do like F5LEN's gridmap website, and use it a lot. I just wish it had better location search (which is usually a fee-for-service thing to implement): https://f5len.org/tools/locator/

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

Oh that's fun. The FN32-33-42-43 intersection is a 1.5 hour drive away and near a SOTA Summit, but of course isn't on the summit and is in a swamp. The other closest intersection like that being, of course, in someone's front yard. I'm going to have to go up that way and do a rove around there with a beam for the January VHF contest.

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

Do it.

So I am naive: is there a whole separate awards program for activating certain grid squares, similar to POTA?

ai6yr, to math

Holy crap. Someone won the Texas Lotto -- to the tune of $95 million -- by buying every combination of number available. They apparently invested approximately $25.8M to accomplish that. (Paywall busted below) https://archive.is/etkX9

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

So a fun fact about this is that I lived 2 blocks from the store where they did this and went there regularly to get beer during the time they were doing this. Was completely unaware.

@scerruti

ai6yr, to aitools

Interesting Patagonia ad posted by @ChristinaBinkley

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

... they do know that people refer to their gear as "Patagucci", right?

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

I mean, I'm into year 17 of one of their fleeces (that is showing wear), but still...

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

Same... I know some folks who use their gear, and by use it I mean use it... but given the area I live in it's very much treated as a fashion brand.

seachanger, to random
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once an alaska economist on twitter unfollowed me because I disagreed that “construct more houses” was the only way out of this housing crisis and suggested we may have some regulatory leverage as well

https://www.businessinsider.com/nar-settlement-antitrust-lawsuits-agent-commissions-affect-home-prices-2024-3?amp

Geojoek,
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@seachanger @misc

I am having the same argument with local legislators who also see the only solution as more development, but pointedly avoid any discussion of the explosion of 2nd homes and AirBnBs and how they play into the mix; our area has been losing population over the long term but there's less and less housing each year. My town is placing a moratorium on non-owner-occupied STR's residential neighborhoods, but we've lost ~half of our rental stock to them in the past decade.

Geojoek, to random
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OK, so, naive question: is the Quansheng UV-K5 a decent enough HT for a beginner, or someone coming back into the hobby after a long absence? Like, better than UV-5R or in terms of sensitivity and not random ones causing spurious emissions?

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