Justin Overfelt @jboverf@mastodon.sdf.org
@kvothe priyom.org is the spot for numbers stations - there are still a few on the air!
@F1RUM works well night or day, and it's nice and quiet usually. Great for CW or Digital. Most countries don't allow phone on 30m.
Prop for me is closer to 40 than 20 but you can work good DX on 30.
@sir it looks like the description field in the rss no longer contains the full article text - could that be added back in?
Justin Overfelt
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Today is the feast day of St Maximilian Kolbe, SP3RN, patron saint of amateur radio operators. He led a truly amazing life. He was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis, and when they were picking prisoners to starve to death, Father Kolbe volunteered in place of another man.
I occasionally find myself in a place with landline phones but no good internet or cell service - does anyone have a recommendation for a prepaid dial up provider in the US? I could use SDFs dial up service but I've heard mixed reviews about numbers not working, etc. Let me know!
@sir Rock Auto is *awesome* - perfect example of a site designed with users in mind
Ahhh!!! Worked all states! Finally managed to get Hawaii. Thanks to K9FD who had a nice signal on 17 meters and managed to pull my low power signal out of the muck! #hamradio
I think I've found a candidate to replace Dark Sky: the "Yr" app. It's Norwegian but seems to work well here in the US
Yak has been shaved: https://git.sr.ht/~jboverfelt/idx2rss
This combined with ssg5 all glued with a makefile is *much* better.
I ranted a while back about static site generation. Found ssg5 which *almost* fits the bill but it's companion rss generator is a mess that doesn't do what I want. Well, this yak must be shaved. Off to write glue code to make an rss feed...
Ended up with 55 contacts for field day. Entry submitted and logs uploaded to lotw! All digimodes between FT8/4 and PSK31 #hamradio
@M0YNG if FT8 used 6 character grid squares that probably would be enough (though not in all cases). One that comes to mind is a street where one side is in Virginia and the other in Tennessee.
I think state and county would be good enough and wouldn't be too revealing. Worked All States and the CQ counties award are popular and I wouldn't want to ruin them. Email is necessary as well imo but it's easy to make a burner one if you're inclined
@M0YNG maybe, but not on the most popular mode currently (FT8). All you get is a grid which could span multiple states and/or counties.
Most people put a suffix on their call if they're away from their normal station but how do you even know where their normal station is under these proposals. The guy I mentioned lives in MD but his call would not indicate that (Maryland is in 3-land)
Saw the reddit thread about public addresses in #hamradio. I understand the concerns, but some information should really remain public. Maybe email, state, and county. Otherwise, say I contact K1RZ. Do I have to wait for confirmation in Logbook of the World to realize he's not actually in 1-land but is in fact in MD?
@sir no mention of the default display quality? Also does the T420 wireless chip do 802.11ac by default? Big drawback for me if not
Wild propagation conditions on the east coast today. 10 meters was open for a while and I actually made a handful of contacts on 12m to the northeast! #hamradio
The E skip opening continues and I am racking up 10m contacts now towards the Midwest 😁
Just made my first Sporadic-E contact on 10m FT8. It was wild. I'm told this time of year around 1700 is the time to sit on 10m FT8 and sure enough a bunch of Texas stations come blasting in! Cool! #hamradio
@M0YNG for me, FT8 is thrilling. The contacts you can make with a modest setup are mind blowing. Nothing I've done in the hobby has compared so far
