@weezmgk well, I do have a few glues that are viscous enough to give it a try.
Luckily I don't have a spare power cable.. or the $300 for the antenna and coax to get it on the air, so it's not like another part would be a big deal
I'll probably get some replacement cables anyways. All four ends have conductors that have peeled off, they're getting replaced eventually
@weezmgk Kenwood TM-721A. I have no VHF/UHF capability... And that one has separate V/U sockets.
Meaning probably $30-50 on a duplexer to split it out, the end-fed vertical I was looking at is $100 before S+H, have to actually construct a pole to mount it on, and then some more LMR400 to connect it.
This isn't counting Other Miscellaneous Expenses that never exist on paper but arise spontaneously whenever a project is started.
BREAKING -- NY AG wins AGAIN -- NRA is liable for corruption and misappropriating donors' money, using it on personal luxury expenses. Jury just returned its verdict in the case, in NYC.
Former NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre ALSO found liable and must pay back $4,351,231 in restitution.
Sitting here for 2 hours maintaining like 5 disparate conversations all at the same time, switching between furry arywork, puns, shitposting, and then a random discussion about network protocols and security.
Looking at @peertube's jobs page and seeing 110 pending transcodes for the same 3 videos.
I know recently I've been having issues with saved replays of permanant lives being duplicated (like a dozen times) but that nearly gave me a heart attack (and nearly turned the rack into a full-blown space heater).
I think I've fixed that now, and can get back to PeerTube being maybe the second most awesome piece of software that I have running in the network here (behind the almighty HAProxy, I don't think anything is going to topple that and it's an infrastructure tool for crying out loud)
Also if anyone else has a better #altText for this, PLEASE let me know, I get very self-conscious very quickly about trying to visually describe my own work
Set up something like Immich or Nextcloud to offload those photos and videos, you can store your music on a Jellyfin or Subsonic server and just stream them (might need a quick VPN connection but that's stupid simple), the only "issue" there is your applications, which a little bit of judicial pruning and cache clearing might solve loads of space issues.
What about a print on demand service for QSL cards that replaces the bureau?
And do we have enough engaged, technically adept, and interesting hams out here in this Fedi space to put together a monthly web magazine of sorts filled with the stuff that we want to read?
I know there was talk before. I'm wondering if we really need to wait for the big org to fail before we start.
Okay so this is coming from someone who almost has no qualifications here.
In theory all you need for an LoTW replacement is, well a database. If you want to keep the authenticity, you'd still need some methodology for the signing, which is simple enough (like, PKCS#7 is everywhere), and then you're just matching database entries together, something that can somewhat easily be done with the correct queries and indexing (though would not be a bad idea to try to optimize your sharding or partitioning for that data set)
Like the infrastructure at the base level is laughably easy. At the scale of which it operates it's much, much harder to get it to not keel over.
And frankly, print-on-demand sounds like either embracing prints from eQSL as "good enough" or, again, having some trusted authentication before printing, maybe piggybacking off OQRS?
