Purge of amateur radio operators in Belarus (!), many of whom have been charged with treason.
Purge of amateur radio operators in Belarus (!), many of whom have been charged with treason.
🚨 MAYDAY from Belarus 🚨
I am EU1AEY, and this is an SOS to the global amateur radio community. My heart is breaking. Today, in Belarus, a harmless technical hobby is being treated as high treason.
Help me amplify this signal before our keys are silenced forever. Show this to a journalist, relay it to your national radio associations, and don’t let this intellectual genocide happen in total silence.
https://medium.com/@steanlab/mayday-389f5713fee4
#hamradio #AmateurRadio #radio #DXing #hamr #swl #pota #sota
🚨 MAYDAY from Belarus 🚨
I am EU1AEY, and this is an SOS to the global amateur radio community. My heart is breaking. Today, in Belarus, a harmless technical hobby is being treated as high treason.
Help me amplify this signal before our keys are silenced forever. Show this to a journalist, relay it to your national radio associations, and don’t let this intellectual genocide happen in total silence.
https://medium.com/@steanlab/mayday-389f5713fee4
#hamradio #AmateurRadio #radio #DXing #hamr #swl #pota #sota
Any #hamradio people know of a good source to get low cost / hand me down gear? EBay usually things are either auctions which are tough to deal with or their shipping prices are through the roof.
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Horusdemodlib v0.6.0 has been released. This is the official release of Horus Binary V3 which introduced ASN.1 UPER encoding, allowing for operators to utilise the high performing modem we've all loved while now have the ability to produce highly customisable telemetry in sizes from 32 bytes to 128 bytes!
I cannot express how amazing this is, how well it works, and how much work from multiple people went into making this happen.
Happy ballooning.
https://github.com/projecthorus/horusdemodlib/releases/tag/v0.6.0
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Suddenly a loud bang from the lab at the local #hamradio club ‼️ 💥🤯
Luckily nothing happened to the people in there, but I guess it’s safe to say that this vintage capacitor decided to quit its job 😂
Always wear safety glasses 🥽 when testing and troubleshooting #electronics, especially if it’s vintage gear where you have no knowledge of its state and health☝🏼
Somewhere in the deep wrinkles of my brain lives a prepper. It shows up when I see a sale on shelf stable snacks and I think, "If the shit hits the fan, it would be nice to have a few of those."
Lately, I have been looking at Meshtastic. It is really cool tech and objectively useful for disasters. Then I remember the catch. I have to convince the people around me to actually carry one for it to matter. Building the mesh is easy. Building the social buy in is the real work.
Somewhere in the deep wrinkles of my brain lives a prepper. It shows up when I see a sale on shelf stable snacks and I think, "If the shit hits the fan, it would be nice to have a few of those."
Lately, I have been looking at Meshtastic. It is really cool tech and objectively useful for disasters. Then I remember the catch. I have to convince the people around me to actually carry one for it to matter. Building the mesh is easy. Building the social buy in is the real work.
Starting with a punk ethos, we train #hamradio operators in our office, in our hacker-space during lunch breaks. It's happening in France, the land of stinky cheeses.
As a beginner amateur radio operator, and not very tech-savvy, I don't necessarily feel very qualified to teach radio. But after all, we said it was punk, and we need to bring in new blood. Less elitist, but still involved in the activity.
Today, three colleagues successfully passed their licenses.
I'm simply happy.
#radioamateur
