I see that #VarAC implemented #AI slop on the HF bands. Just another reason to not use it along with it not being open source and #Windows only.

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio

I'd like to take this moment to remind everyone that as far as I know, @nars is the only ham radio club that has this specific item in their mission statement:

"To serve as a stalwart opponent of the use of amateur radio as an accessory to state violence and oppression."

If you love #HamRadio and not #Fascism, you'll probably find friends here!

I'd like to take this moment to remind everyone that as far as I know, @nars is the only ham radio club that has this specific item in their mission statement:

"To serve as a stalwart opponent of the use of amateur radio as an accessory to state violence and oppression."

If you love #HamRadio and not #Fascism, you'll probably find friends here!

VE2DX is closing up shop and will no longer offer radio products, as a result of US tariffs.

https://www.amateurradio.com/yet-another-loss-to-the-amateur-radio-market/

#hamradio #tariffs

Quite the week for "radio hobbyists knowing what is going on"

1. ham radio amateur discovers Starlink using out-of-band, unpermitted downlink frequencies

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal?

2. ham radio amateur pinpoints the weather balloon that nailed UAL1093

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115410089015816867

3. ham radio amateur's website determines what is being deployed by US military to Venezuela
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/19/world/us-military-build-up-caribbean-trump-pressures-venezuela

#hamradio

@relistan Recall buying 100 packs of little envelopes multiple times - always finding more (and more) parts to be bagged and shoe boxed. The shoe boxes multiplied over time…

Sadly, that was before moving cross country multiple times in a short period of time. Starting over with ADALM2000 and TI MyParts kits, but poor substitute for past capabilities. Slowly building up parts again. Treasure parts if you have them.
#HamRadio #ElectronicsParts #JunkBox

One of my favourite features of the #fediverse is seeing people *learning things*. There are so many folks here discovering dying arts and trades. People learning how the things we take for granted work, and endeavouring to implement them themselves!

People getting their #HAMradio licenses, #selfhosting, making clothing, blacksmithing, gardening, repairing their own things, backporting modern software to run on windows 3.11...

Y'all are my people. Never stop learning, and never stop sharing what you've learned.

I've had an uncharacteristically productive morning. My wife woke up early and I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up and did some ( #hamradio) #FT8. I pretty quickly got 13 contacts into Japan which was fun.

Then I was on a high so I got out and did a 5 mile walk along the beach. It's now ~8:30 AM and I feel like I can take the rest of the day off ;-)

Quite an adventure today with @ai6yr and our friend AJ6CL...try to do some innocent @SOTA, end up spending the day helping a grandmother and two kids who managed to get their van stuck in the mud on top of an 8300' mountain in the middle of West Bumblef*ck. Had we not happened to be there it's likely things could have gone very very badly. Long story, not sure how much will be reported here, but Ham Radio for the win, baby. We got the word to another ham on 40m who made the 911 call.

#hamradio

Quite an adventure today with @ai6yr and our friend AJ6CL...try to do some innocent @SOTA, end up spending the day helping a grandmother and two kids who managed to get their van stuck in the mud on top of an 8300' mountain in the middle of West Bumblef*ck. Had we not happened to be there it's likely things could have gone very very badly. Long story, not sure how much will be reported here, but Ham Radio for the win, baby. We got the word to another ham on 40m who made the 911 call.

#hamradio

Quite the week for "radio hobbyists knowing what is going on"

1. ham radio amateur discovers Starlink using out-of-band, unpermitted downlink frequencies

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal?

2. ham radio amateur pinpoints the weather balloon that nailed UAL1093

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115410089015816867

3. ham radio amateur's website determines what is being deployed by US military to Venezuela
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/19/world/us-military-build-up-caribbean-trump-pressures-venezuela

#hamradio

What kind of antenna could I make out of these? (Didn't snag them yet) 🤔 #hamradio

One of my favourite features of the #fediverse is seeing people *learning things*. There are so many folks here discovering dying arts and trades. People learning how the things we take for granted work, and endeavouring to implement them themselves!

People getting their #HAMradio licenses, #selfhosting, making clothing, blacksmithing, gardening, repairing their own things, backporting modern software to run on windows 3.11...

Y'all are my people. Never stop learning, and never stop sharing what you've learned.