BenDoubleU

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[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 11 points 5 months ago (6 children)

As an instance owner and moderator: that’s a horrible way to look at things. Just throwing the onus onto someone else is irresponsible.

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 10 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I’m all for it as long as people know that posting on something like mastodon and tagging a lemmy community will then make a post in that community. Could make for great discussions, but could also lead to a lot of posts/spam in the communities.

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Those are all great options for sure. And while not an exact answer to your question, you could maybe go a bit simpler (and cheaper) for just 2, 10, & 20m like an end fed half wave.

Thoughts on how you’ll run it to your second floor?

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s not a slogan, just the title of the article 😊 it does go on to state that the spirit isn’t much different and how it’s used differently today. Glad you like lemmy.radio!

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

For lemmy: it's mostly link sharing, so I'd mostly see posting about *OTA experiences, pics, questions here in the POTA/SOTA communities.

Mastodon, on the other hand, would just be one way to show something like that since it's more time related and ephemeral. Bot was my first stab at something like you mean, but I do think there could be something to auto-post with all that data.

And while not on the fediverse: I use hamspot for something like this. It flips the onus of posting a spot to actually listening FOR a spot from people you know around the fediverse.

BUT if we want to let our ideas get REALLY wild with it: I could totally see a federated service for spotting or any *OTA related activity. Different instances handing different kinds of spots. Parks or summits or islands being different items that people can subscribe to, spot from, and activate. Just spit ballin'.

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I could see a community used for spotting. Not sure how the browser extension part would work.

I see people post a sorta self-spot on mastodon all the time. Something that might be nice is a mastodon bot that could read a certain hashtag or if it was @ed so everyone could follow the bot to see who is activating.

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was a little floored when they announced this product (and Proton Scribe). Don't really see the need for it in the Proton Suite.

 

After many improvements to Proton Wallet during the last year and positive feedback from the community, we are opening Proton Wallet to the world so that everyone can enjoy financial freedom and sovereignty.

 

Great web app to practice your CW for CQs, pile-ups, contests, and POTA

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 14 points 6 months ago

The 8bit Celeste music sounds pretty good on the demo!

 

I wrote this Guide from the perspective of hams in the United States. Many of my references, for example to frequencies and to radio propagation, pertain to amateur radio in North America, although most of the CW operating techniques I discuss apply to worldwide CW operation. -- by Jack Wagoner WB8FSV

I've been learning CW and wanted to start sharing some of the sites and docs that I've been using!

 

"Barring extraterrestrial contact, if you want to step up your DX game you’ll want to try to contact some of our deep-space probes."

Linked to hackaday since actual content link is a PDF.

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 7 points 6 months ago

This is the same team that received from Voyager I in December 2024: https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024/dwingeloo-telescope-receives-signals-from-voyager-1/

 

In an exciting first, we managed to successfully complete a two-way contact by bouncing a signal off a geostationary satellite. The satellite in question, Inmarsat GX-5, is stationed at an altitude of over 35,000 kilometers, and together with Dan, HB9Q, in Switzerland, we alternated between transmitting towards the satellite and receiving reflections. This first ever amateur QSO over geo satellite the remarkable capabilities of modern amateur radio technology when paired with large, high-gain dishes.

originally found on https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/bouncing-signals-off-of-satellites-other-than-the-moon/

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/5845618

A quick look at how the movie The Exorcist from 1973 has links to the late great Alan Turing via Mike Oldfield’s album Tubular Bells, Scotland and Amateur Radio.

 

A quick look at how the movie The Exorcist from 1973 has links to the late great Alan Turing via Mike Oldfield’s album Tubular Bells, Scotland and Amateur Radio.

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure I've ever seen that website. What was/is it?

edit*

oh was that the rss feed site? I'm not sure what happened.

 

Winter Field Day is this weekend, January 25 - 26!

Do you have any plans for it?

Let us know how it goes!

#hamradio

 

NewsNation has obtained exclusive footage showing the retrieval of an egg-shaped object, recorded during a UAP retrieval operation. The egg resembles UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) U.S. Navy fighters reported seeing off the east coast of the U.S. in 2015.

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 2 points 6 months ago

Supposed to be freezing and rainy here. Not sure I'll make it out to a park, but I'll try my best to hunt for y'all!

 

This weekend, January 18-19, 2025, is the winter Support Your Parks event for Parks on the Air (POTA).

Anyone plan on activating at a local park or hunting for one?

 

RIP David

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