Good Morning, #Fediverse !

Good Morning #radiofedi !

Not as cool out as when I went to bed, but it is waaaay cooler that it has been.

So, is anyone else getting follow requests from some AI generated goon inviting you to come join him/her on threads? Right in the follow request?

GM #radiofedi !

I’m back to DO IT AGAIN.
apologies to #SteelyDan

Good Morning #radiofedi #fedifriends
Happy Monday!
I'm bracing for a day of wet bulb temps in the mid teens.

It never happened yesterday, but somehow I don't think we're going to get so lucky today.

We're forecast for 7 days straight of dangerous heat warnings, though today (so far) it is only an excessive heat advisory (I hope I got those right).

It's gonna be hot.

GOOD MORNING #FEDIVERSE and #RADIOFEDI !

For good or ill, I'm back!

Let's get it on, whatever 'it' is today XD

Alright #radiofedi and the big #fediverse beyond -

Time for me to step away from my consoles and try to do a nice sleep.

Wish me luck

I'll catch you on the next cycle

72/73 de KI5SMN SK

#SeeYouSpaceCowboy

Good night, peoples of the #fediverse, and all my #radiofedi friends.

Back to razzle my dazzle again tomorrow, if fortune will have my ass xD

#seeyouspacecowboy

GN #radiofedi

Hasta manana, #fedifriends!

I'll see y'all with coffee and a wake up call before the crack ass of dawn!

#seeyouspacecowboy

Speaking of long bands...I think mine done longed out right into the upper atmo

GM #RADIOFEDI
GM #fedifriends !

I seem to be having a bitch of a time operating this keyboard, I think my 1 sip of coffee has just ran out of gas lol

Looks like the spectrum is taking a break with me, I got one contact in the last 3 hrs, @AF5AV up in central Oklahoma.

It's quiet, and actually kind of cool.

For the first time since 06/01 or so, we're not under an excessive heat warning or dangerous heat warning.

Good morning #radiofedi and broader #Fediverse

Already off to a very fine start here at station KI5SMN, we have already made informal contact this morning with both western Australia and the north coast of France.

I know, 'informal contact'. I was a sleepin' ;)

I love having a round-the-clock, round-the-world station.

Good Night #radiofedi
Good Night #fediverse

Good Night, all you Magnificent Bastards!

#SeeYouSpaceCowboy

Good morning #radiofedi and broader #Fediverse

Last night, I left my js8call station up and running, and we're coming up on 24 hours of continuous operation!

66 Calls in the call pane, so far.

Also, GOOD MORNING #radiofedi AND ALL MY OTHER #friendos !

Good morning #radiofedi (and everybody else too)!

Today, I'm continuing to transcode wxPython to PyQt. So far, it's been a glorious trip, encumbered by few burdensome demands on the brane, the interwebs, prerequisites. or other requirements.

Today (particularly) I'm working on capturing a signature on a touch screen.

It's a lot like a little painting module.

Good Morning #radiofedi #fediverse !

Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning!
(and other blathering on of some significance).

We got that, today, looks like. There is storminess coming down out of the northwest, and while it is kind of petering out right now, the sun is coming up, and will certainly recharge all that convection that's in play when it hits the approximately water-saturated local air mass.

So while it might not rain in the next 15 minutes, I'm gonna get out on that proverbial limb and say that it's gonna rain *sometime* today, *somewhere*. 😆

On the home front, I got on up in the attic yesterday, as because reasons, it wasn't 127 deg F up there. I took down my old antenna, the one with the giant homebrew un:un, and replaced it with the one I had recently in the tree. I made a quite significant discovery: the old one was too short. By at least a full meter. As a result, I ran out of room to stretch out the elements. So, I wrapped them around the back side of a rafter at each end, on off to the east (the southern-pointing element), and the other off to the west (the northern-pointing one).

This setup is using the 1:1 balun I bought off amazon; it's the worst sort of Chinese manufacture; I know because I have taken it apart and cleaned up the assembly.

It's working fairly well, I got spotted a couple times yesterday without trying too hard for too long.

While I was at the south end of all this business, I had to get a good grip on this upright board up in the attic; which, frankly, wiggles a little. Mounted on this upright board is an electrical junction box (I think with a light switch), which provides power to an attic light. When the board moved as I swung back around the back of it after securing the overage of the element down there, the damn attic light went off. I had to find my way back up to the south end of the house, where the stairs are, pretty much in the dark, yay.

As I was climbing down the ladder, it came back on. Now mind you, that junction box is effectively at the other end of a 20' dipole.

When I got the rest of the way down the attic stairs, I discovered that the attic light wasn't the only thing that was back on; all the circuits and lights that went out when the lightening struck last fall were on, all throughout the house.

So that box and attic light were added by the guy who flipped the house and sold it to us; as were the pot lights in the hall. They are all on the same loop, which is tied into a preexisting loop, which also stopped working after the lightening strike.

My guess is, there is a loose connection in that added circuitry, something acting effectively as a switch. When the lightening struck, there was incredible percussion; I know, I was sitting in front of an open window and and air blast/shock wave hit me that made me think of a bomb going off. I think it had enough force to knock that wire apart enough to switch off the circuit.

While I was up there, I 'switched' it back on.

Good morning #radiofedi !

It’s another epic day here, if you can handle the hot and humid. It’s fairly nice out there right now, but we all know where that’s headed.

I’m really stoked about this move, and I have decided to import my old ioc a count over here too. I got some good folks over there I been missing.

Good night #radiofedi

It's been a pretty good radio day, I put all three HF rigs through their paces on 20m today and can confirm that physics still works much as it did last time I checked 😆

Also, I can confirm similar results under similar conditions from all three, and across a couple of power sources and levels.

That's even more awesome as I have to work tomorrow, and I wont be distracted wondering if all of the things are in operational condx.

73 babies, catch you in the morning times!

HOW WE DOIN' Y'ALL! 😄

Good morning #radiofedi, on this day of rememberence, recall that while it represents a loss, it also represents the recollection of the best of what our families offered in time of need, and that by and large, they gave up what they did out of valor.

Thank you, both my maternal Grandfathers.

One came home from WWI, highly decorated; the other never came home from WWII, also highly decorated.

gn #radiofedi, hasta #mananna 😀

Good morning #radiofedi !

Happy World Amateur Radio Day!

GOOD MORNING #RADIOFEDI!

So it turns out that with the rigctld set with 'rig' as the PTT method, I no longer need direwolf to tell pat about the rig.

I may not need direwolf to do this thing, but I am not unhappy to have it swinging from my tool belt.

That said, I still am not able to QSY the radio from pat's HTTP interface.