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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 hamradio
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Second $10 garage sale 19 inch rack deployed. Found an extra 19 inch shelf I had snagged a few years ago! Need another. Much better than the pile-o-radios.

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

For a split second I was reading that as you getting that Kenwood for $10 at a yard sale and I was ready to throw my phone across the room. 😂

ai6yr, to random
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Cool! Remote imaging test subject found in the bushes! Will have to see if these are visible in Google Earth. Have been here for awhile.

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

I know you posted about this a few weeks ago (can't find the original toot), but what method did you use to detect this again? It's pretty amazing!

Geojoek, to random
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Time for our favorite game: identify that RF!

It's in one of the 2m OSCAR sub-bands... could this be a satellite?

ai6yr, to india
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Hmm, 35C and dewpoint of 33C at the METAR for Jay Prakash Narayan Airport (VEPT), Bihar, India. I don't think in Celsius, but I am thinking that is uncomfortable at best, likely heat illness or death at worst. (assuming no A/C).

ps.
For LINUX:
apt install metar
metar -D VEPT

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

Oh <insert expletive> that's a ~91.4 F dewpoint. A lot of older / sick folks here struggle with dewpoints over 70 F. I (and probably a lot of other folks) thought we still had a few decades before stuff like this started happening.

Geojoek, to random
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Weird question: Is it a bad idea to buy a radio like the DX10 from a ham-I-don't-know at a ham fest or on QRZ / eBay? Or just buy new?

Geojoek,
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@ve3qbz @bud_t @ai6yr

After my experience with the phaser (which works, but wasn't well cared for) I am inclined to not buy a big ticket piece of ham gear without testing it for stiff and scratchy pots / still covered in dust and... residue.

Goodness that thing arrived in gross cosmetic condition. At least wipe the thing down, dude.

ai6yr, to random
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I always wondered how to identify a piece of Schist. 😉

Geojoek,
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@ai6yr

You are scratching the surface of a whole world of schist... more than you may have bargained for: https://opengeology.org/petrology/14-metamorphism-of-pelitic-rocks/

mediaarchaeologylab, to random
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the semester is over and we're now working on cleaning, tidying, and sprucing up the joint with some comfier chairs and a new couch 😍

a picture of one side of the back room of the Media Archaeology Lab. two light pink swivel chairs are in front of two white tables with two small desk lamps on it, a typewriter, and two shelves of a wide range of analog media including cameras.

Geojoek,
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@mediaarchaeologylab

Are those... the chair from TikTok? If so, how are they? Been wondering about them...

Geojoek,
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@mediaarchaeologylab

Oh my goodness yes. So many people are doing spon-con about it and the PUKAMI chair is indeed the same chair: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home-products/a46569866/tiktok-criss-cross-chair-review/

ai6yr, to random
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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
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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 #POTA 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
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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 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

Do it.

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

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