The idea is that by feeding it with Window Line, I could have the 6m dipole at 3m – a half-wavelength above ground. A 10m dipole taps at 5m above ground…
Multi-Band JS8Call Infrastructure Node
Idea: A network of JS8Call Infrastructure Nodes for handling message traffic.
Would this be an interesting system to build?
Would it be fun?
Would it be useful?
Hmm…
I Get That Nets Don’t Own The Freq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36W0t1iXp-4
K8MRD wants you to think that if you’re doing POTA, and some other station informs you that you’re causing QRM on the Maritime Mobile Service Net, that the Net should move ‘cuz you were there first.
GridTracker WSJT-x and CQRlog
How to use CQRlog for overall log management, yet still also use GridTracker, and have them cooperate.
The Bands Were Hell Yesterday
In which Josh (KI6NAZ) and I (N0MQL) ponder whether there are Kilts in Hell.
MPR the Current KCMP
It’s Pledge-Drive time, so they’re playing far less music and doing a ton more talking, begging listeners to contact them, pleading for interaction, suggesting support. But on their website, all the ways they interact with the public are… distasteful. So I emailed them.
Does RTTY Have Good Enough Guidance?
Y’all have seen the ARRL Band Chart. It’s ubiquitous. But it’s a woefully insufficient reference for RTTY contest weekends. Is there something better?
Changed The Format
Here’s the excerpt. If this worked, the resultant toot will be formatted more to my liking with 4 pieces of information (plus a featured pic).
I think this might be working better, again.
Saw a funny toot about two things that “techbros” apparently say. One the one hand: #SelfDrivingCars are inevitable.
On the other hand: Select all squares with traffic lights.
That spawned a lively discussion of techbro-bashers which was equally entertaining. But here’s the thing: the central point of the OP was about hypocrisy, or at least being self-contradictory.
Well, these very same techbro-bashers, if asked about being dismissive of disabled people, who wish to live independent lives to the extent feasible, would OF COURSE speak up on the side of the disabled. Or elderly. Or whatever.
Pretty decent overlap of these same folks reminding anyone who will listen that #CovidIsNotOver (and it very much is not, and is a much bigger threat to elderly, etc.).
Huge overlap of these same folks decrying how much we must do to address the #ClimateCrisis.
Yes – there are growing pains of every technological advance. It’s easy to say that “X lives are too many” to lose in order to achieve Y. But this may be a case where failing to achieve Y will inevitably cost X-times-1000 lives.
Infrastructure will need to change. Pretty much everywhere. Stroads will need to not exist, and other similar changes. But in order to EVENTUALLY drastically reduce the deaths from vehicular accidents, and from the Climate Crisis, and from Pandemics, electric self-driving cars will be necessary. As will masking/vaccines requirements of everybody. As will a robust passenger high speed rail system (on which vaccinations/masks are 100% required, including it covering your fucking nose, you dim pricks).
But it will be a bumpy, expensive journey to get there, in part because the future’s very proponents are also its loudest opponents… and are also assholes in a way they have not yet objectively appreciated.