The K0HRV repeater is live! Tune in if you're on site for
@defcon 33, or at home with Echolink!
#defcon33#HamRadio#AmateurRadio
Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.
I wonder how much #HamRadio there was in these. I just spot checked a couple…found pirate, shortwave, and plain old but not #AmateurRadio
Ok, so I've got a crap old mini desktop PC that still runs ok. (core2, 2Gb ram)
Best use case I can think of for it, is to load it up with a lightweight Linux distro & run it solely as an SDR.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what distro(s) I should have a play with?
(Reasonably experienced *nix user)

Who doesn't love Crystals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZlWWwxIPQ&t=1s
Almost makes me want start regrinding FT243s again.
However I can't help cringing at OH&S practices from 80 years ago!
Who doesn't love Crystals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZlWWwxIPQ&t=1s
Almost makes me want start regrinding FT243s again.
However I can't help cringing at OH&S practices from 80 years ago!
Although I’d thought about applying for a new vanity call sign before, I’d always dismissed the idea as frivolous.
But lately I’ve been embracing some new things and decided it was time for a change. I didn’t want to go completely unhinged so I set some guidelines and (mostly) stuck to them.

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Managed to get a Commodore 64 AEA User port to TNC cable.
* Trying to find the manual or details
* Looking for an image of the original PackRatt Software for the Commodore 64 if possible?
Anyone in the Fediverse able to help? 😊 Thanks!
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing#Commodore64 #c64#HamRadio#AmateurRadio
Managed to get a Commodore 64 AEA User port to TNC cable.
* Trying to find the manual or details
* Looking for an image of the original PackRatt Software for the Commodore 64 if possible?
Anyone in the Fediverse able to help? 😊 Thanks!
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing#Commodore64 #c64#HamRadio#AmateurRadio

We're losing #OpenAccess to #weather #data on the #NOAA web site. But #HamRadio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #OpenSource decoder. Here's how.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
PS: Very grateful to geeks.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
We're losing #OpenAccess to #weather #data on the #NOAA web site. But #HamRadio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #OpenSource decoder. Here's how.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
PS: Very grateful to geeks.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue
Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?
The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder