Yeah – simple as a toot, but any length.

Plus, with a plug-in, it auto-toots a blurb, and optionally, one featured pic.

Gets me past the 0.488k post-length problem.

Looks Great!

I love the minimalist aesthetic

So then I switched off the VBAN stream, and instead fired up Live365 on the bed-side phone, figuring I’d pick something else, and suffer through unawareness mode for one night. Search term “Sleep”. Found ONE other option: “Sleep Zone”. Started playing that. It was good. Nature sound with a little piano and other soft instrumentation (not amateurish). That track finished playing, then A LOUD ADVERTISEMENT FOR KOHL’S. Yeah, fuck that. Shut it down, pull out the ‘buds, deal with the snoring, not sleep very well.

Gonna build something with Syrinscape, I think. I don’t want to constantly stream, and I can’t trust the Live365 curators.

This is amusinoying for two reasons.

1st: When the mode you’re using is routed through the Internet, your radio is not receiving the other station’s transmission at all. What you’re receiving is the hotspot, or repeater that you’re using as your access to/from the WiRES-X system. You might as well tell us how awesome your YouTube reception is – “Even works when it’s raining heavily out, which our DirectTV doesn’t.”

2nd: The other guy isn’t necessarily transmitting ANY RF AT ALL. It’s just as likely that his equipment connects directly to the internet and the transmitter is never even on. So, while reporting to someone that they’re choppy (dropped packets), or modulation is too high or low (adjust mic position or gain), the RF-signal-strength part of a signal report is completely irrelevant and meaningless.

Just – laughably misunderstanding what’s going on. LOL

But I guy I heard this morning, I wish I could’ve silently ejected from the system.

Guy 1 is talking to Guy 2. Both using both callsigns AT LEAST once during each TX. Then Guy 1 is informed that Guy 2 and Mrs. Guy 1 went to the same High School. So now Mrs. Guy 1 and Guy 2 are going to reminisce, and Guy 1 has no goddamned clue what it is to be a Control Operator.

“This is K1GUY (fictitious call) for W2GUY (also fictitious) controlling for a 3rd party transmission.” Without un-keying, his wife comes on and remembers something of her High School days, and asks Guy 2 a question. Without un-keying, Guy 1 ends that transmission with, “This is K1GUY for W2GUY, back to you.”

He did this 7 or 8 times.

O… M… G!

Look, dude, here’s how you Control Operate that shit. Hand the mic to your wife, and let her talk to Guy 2 like they’re on FRS walkie talkies. Don’t interrupt with your given-by-God-himself callsign unless 10 minutes goes by, otherwise STFU. You literally doubled how long your America-Link conversation was by cramming in unnecessary overhead, all the while fussing about not wanting to tie up America-Link for too long.

Or – here’s another idea – keep your email addresses current on QRZ.com. One of you email the other guy and exchange phone numbers. Then let Mrs Guy 1 talk to Guy 2.

Same story, on 12m, -28.7db is what got me 10w.
15m, -27.6db.
17m, -26.8db.

1. Set the radio power to 100w (max).
2. Tune WSJT-X and adjust the power slider until the radio shows it’s outputting 10 watts (a rough approximation at best). Note the slider position (e.g. it showed me -27.9db when I did this on 10-meters just now).
3. Dial the radio power down to 5w (min).

Theoretically, then, I’m as close to 500mw as I can be without expensive test equipment.

Does that seem reasonable?

Suffice to say, #IQ45 does not effectively de-escalate by repeating the lies about a stolen election.