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kc2ihx

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Been a novice at this hobby since 2001, never a Novice. Aspiring homebrew radio builder. Parent to a kindergartner. Lefty. Also https://vis.social/@eheisman, with occasional cross-posting

other interests: #birds #bicycles #woodworking

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sergio_101, to markdown
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I feel like I get over the top violent when an application doesn't properly support

kc2ihx,
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@sergio_101

I have noticed Outlook now turns underscores into italics, but it doesn't remove the underscores when it does.

ai6yr, to ai
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Lovely... The has taken over interacting with prospective donors/voters. Which makes for funny interactions, but there are a lot of naive voters who will think it's a real person. https://nalanj.dev/posts/desantis-campaign-sms-llm/

kc2ihx,
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@joycebell @ai6yr

Unfortunately I can't see that hashtag without thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpocalypse

ai6yr, to random
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Pro tip: if you're asked to take several boxes of stuff from the garage to the thrift store for , check the box BEFORE you donate it for the stuff you are going to the thrift store to buy. 😂 (Thinking of going to the thrift store to find a cheap slotted spoon to fish out stuff from my beeswax melter... and my wife asked me to take the boxes in the garage... where there were a couple of slotted spoons 🤔 ).

kc2ihx,
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@ai6yr

I once took a towel rack the local building goods thrift store only to re-buy the same one a couple of months later when we found a spot that needed one.

ai6yr, to linux
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on Desktop (Debian/Gnome) working out great! Nothing feels better than NOT feeding everything you do into the maw of Microsoft Bing. (at least, minimally feeding it...)

kc2ihx,
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@ai6yr

Good to hear. I am rebuilding my 12 year old "gaming" PC that has mostly sat unused. I was going to experiment with running Debian for gaming and radio stuff. Maybe move my laptop to Debian too if it works out well.

ai6yr, (edited ) to GPS
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Shamelessly copied this from XKCD. (updated: this is the source here! https://xkcd.com/2170/)

kc2ihx,
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@ai6yr

So... this has has always bugged me about National Weather Service 7-day forecast page URLs. Thankfully they're not building a database to track individual atoms.

AE4WX, to solar
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    kc2ihx,
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    @shuttersparks @AE4WX

    Wonder how many people heard about the storm and decided to go do something else for the day.

    JS8 was pretty quiet at 5:30 PT this morning, but the couple of stations hearing my heartbeat were about as far away as normal.

    ai6yr, to random
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    Very early pick your own . Making tomato sauce today. Notable: the first year I did not hear any Italian bring spoken. I wonder if the older generation skipped this year.

    kc2ihx,
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    @ai6yr wow! Looks like a delicious year ahead.

    I think this afternoon or tomorrow will be my first attempt at making hot sauce, mostly to give away. I accidentally bought more hot pepper plants this year than I intended!

    VE2UWY, to random
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    Mmm. Mmm hmm. I think this person is on to something. I don't care to expose myself to that website to find the other pieces of the thread but would hope the manifesto includes project boxes w/fake wood-grain vinyl.

    kc2ihx,
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    @Stormgren @VE2UWY

    Legitimately a big part of what got me into woodworking was wanting to build nice cases (not vinyl fake woodgrain) for yet unbuilt radio projects.

    bud_t, to hamradio
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    This might be a fantastic field computer for

    StarLite 12.5-inch – Star Labs®
    https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

    kc2ihx,
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    @bud_t

    (This time from my ham account)

    This looks really interesting and sounds like a great field bag computer.

    Just a caution from having a Dell tablet in that form factor with fold down keyboard, I would just caution that without having an even surface to put it down on it is difficult to type on... If you were planning to use the keyboard.

    ai6yr, to hamradio
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    cover story. Slight problem visible.

    Zoom on ham radio. Missing power connections. And coax.

    kc2ihx,
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    @ai6yr

    We don't call it "wireless" for nothing!

    (Also usually it is that Astron PSU that has trouble retaining wires)

    ai6yr, to JamesBond
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    Ha! Must go shopping for homes of -- this one looks interesting.

    Long lap pool or water feature under metal structure

    kc2ihx,
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    @ai6yr

    Attempt at reducing RFI in the shack? Oddly shaped room for it.

    kc2ihx, to random
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    starts in just a couple of hours! Check in by sending a message to NCS between 0000-2359 UTC on Friday 4 August.

    To: KC2IHX
    Subject: FFWN
    Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username], [VHF/HF/APRS/Telnet]
    Message body line2: answer to Q of the week - have you ever operated out of your home country, if so where?

    If you want to try the form, check out https://github.com/Mihara/ffwn by @R2AZE!

    kc2ihx, to random
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    Has anyone here used U-Haul UBox service to move stuff recently? I am looking for the best way to get the last of my stuff from my mom's house in NJ to WA.

    I used them about a decade ago to move here. It was a terrible experience, mostly because they had no tracking system. Unfortunately, they're very cost competitive for the amount I need to move and they service both ends of the move. Have they gotten any better since 2012?

    kc2ihx, to hamradio
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    Okay. and electrical engineers out there. I have a mystery balun, maybe from when I was first licensed. It's label rubbed off and I am trying to figure out if it is a 4:1 or 1:1 with a NanoVNA.

    Using an assortment of adapters, with either a BNC 50ohm terminator or dummy load, and the NanoVNA ch0 connected to the SO239, I get a SWR of 2:1 around 55mhz and very high everywhere else. Reversing it, with ch0 hooked to the terminals and the dummy load on the SO239, I get 1:1 there.

    First test setup, probes hooked to a white PVC pipe balun and a blue coax out the bottom.
    Second test setup with dummyload on the so239 and terminals leading to the NanoVNA.

    kc2ihx,
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    So, is this balun bad, or my test setup just too janky?

    kc2ihx,
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    Okay, after an attempt to calibrate without digging out the proper calibration set, I got something that looks more like 4:1 SWR.

    kc2ihx,
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    @ai6yr

    Thanks - I was fairly certain it was a 4:1.

    kc2ihx,
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    @ai6yr

    Oh no, now I have another antenna to consider building, and not enough time. :)

    Been meaning to replace my "G5RV" that is lacking a proper balun with something that does to see if it makes a difference with noise. OCF was on my list.

    Also was considering the delta loop in the "D" configuration here: https://rsars.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/40m-10m-delta-loop-antenna-gu3whn-iss-1-3.pdf

    kc2ihx, to hamradio
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    going to call around 14.280 for a little bit.

    my 5yo kid wants to know what this thing is all about.

    Edit: QRT, we have moved on to duplos and anticipating this afternoon's playdate.

    kc2ihx,
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    @ai6yr @BakerRL75 yeah, tuning around it was pretty quiet on my end. Only one or two QSOs on 20, nothing on 15.

    sergio_101, to amateurradio
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    Trying to figure out if I want a vanity callsign. KB8QPT just seems so long in CW. But I have had that call so long, it’s kinda my jam.

    kc2ihx,
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    @sergio_101

    I've considered a vanity, given that mine feels long in CW and I no longer live in 2-land. But meh, it's my call, always been my all, and probably always will be.

    ai6yr, to random
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    The trick to perfect : 1. cast iron pan 2. patience.

    kc2ihx,
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    @ai6yr @pearlbear @douglasvb

    Oh interesting.

    I just assumed it was inevitable to scratch up the surface with my cast iron pans, and try to be careful with them.

    Edent, to linux
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    I'm sure I remember a clock app for which was deliberately vague.

    It would declare the time as "Nearly tea-time" or "A little after elevenses" or "Quite late" or "Gosh, that's early".

    I can find no evidence that it existed and am beginning to wonder if I dreamt it.

    Anyone know what I'm wibbling about?

    kc2ihx,
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    @Edent I remember this too, I think it was part of whichever desktop environment I was using at the time.

    kc2ihx, to hamradio
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    To check in, send your message on Friday 30 June between 0000Z-2359Z

    To: KC2IHX
    Subject: FFWN
    Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username], [VHF/HF/APRS/Telnet/RFC-2549]
    Message body line2: Do you belong to a local ham club? Y/N/# Do you belong to a national organization (e.g. ARRL, RSGB, etc)? Y/N/#

    please boost!

    foone, to random
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    I accidentally configured my main windows machine to try to open all python files with python 2.2

    this is the kind of thing that only happens to me

    kc2ihx,
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    @foone I was thinking "I've done that for work reasons" but then realized it was long enough ago that it was definitely closer to Python 2.2 being released then to now.

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