Okay so I KNOW that it’s super expensive compared to the 30ft poles, but has anyone used an extension pole this tall before as a temporary antenna mast? You could easily put up a 60ft EFHW vertical! Or a UHF/VHF. Looking for others thoughts and opinions.
I was about to register for the isc2 when the price jumped up almost $1000 in the cart! I switched to incognito and the price went back down. What the f***? Anyone know why this might be or if I should email isc2 to see if they’ll honor the initial price? Or should I find a different training provider?
I was about to register for the isc2 when the price jumped up almost $1000 in the cart! I switched to incognito and the price went back down. What the f***? Anyone know why this might be or if I should email isc2 to see if they’ll honor the initial price? Or should I find a different training provider?
I was about to register for the isc2 when the price jumped up almost $1000 in the cart! I switched to incognito and the price went back down. What the f***? Anyone know why this might be or if I should email isc2 to see if they’ll honor the initial price? Or should I find a different training provider?
Have anyone here had success recruiting folks into the mesh? What kind of outreach has worked for you? I just put up the first repeater high up in my small Wisconsin town and it has good coverage but there’s no other mesh to tie into, so there’s only me on it.
What’s worked to get people to buy companions? What outreach worked well? What didn’t work well in your experience?
Thank you!
While watching a YouTube short, I saw that the robot was built using Onshape, which is pretty cool! I think the business was called monumental, they built a brick laying robot in the UK. I’m not affiliated in any way, i just figured someone would think it’s cool.
I’ve been stuck at a wall of comprehension beyond 1-2 character comprehension when listing to Morse code. I’ve been practicing for weeks on Morse mania and other websites, I can identify characters at 20wpm no problem, but when more than one character comes in too fast the sounds get all jumbled in my head. I’m trying really hard to recall the letters by sound, not counting dits and dash, but admittedly i find myself still doing that. Is there any trick here to get past this wall? I know many operators reach this wall when learning - what helped you?
Someone on here wrote about micro spinners and they absolutely crushed these sunfish. I added a worm to the trebles, would cast out and reel in half way then let it sink to the bottom. I’d watch the fish chase the lure, and the moment after I stop reeling in, they’d strike. Sure enough, on the drop, after 1-2 seconds my line would be running away with these pumpkinseed sunfish. I threw my first one back because it was too pretty to keep. I caught 8, kept 7, and had myself a lovely lunch and dinner later with all the meat. The fillets are small but man are they tasty with some ritz crackers fried in butter.
I’m not comparing equipment, but I’m definitely comparing equipment.
Pretty frustrating - family with children left all their trash on the curb.
I've been running JS8Call and wanted a better web UI experience, so I forked js8web and spent some time cleaning it up.
What I fixed:
What I added:
Would love for folks to download it and bang on it. It's a single Go binary, no dependencies beyond JS8Call itself. Build instructions are in the README.
What other features would you want to see? I've got API access to most of JS8Call's internals so there's room to grow. Eventually I'd love to see these changes merged into PiotrTopa/js8web.
GitHub: https://github.com/melidosian/js8web
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I just signed into the new app and it can’t access any of the repos I have up on my computer. It knows all the repos and the branch names. When I try to send a prompt I get this error.
Surprisingly it’s not the telescoping antenna that broke - but the screw for the base! I know I can fix it - but WTF? And on field day too! I knew I should have brought my soldering iron.
Surprisingly it’s not the telescoping antenna that broke - but the screw for the base! I know I can fix it - but WTF? And on field day too! I knew I should have brought my soldering iron.
If you've been into CW training for a while you might remember Seiuchy - a browser-based QSO simulator built by HB9FXW that let you practice head-copying at different speeds, key styles, and categories (RST, QTH, rig, callsign, etc.). It also had a full QSO mode that would just play out a complete exchange so you could follow along.
The original site (seiuchy.macache.com) went dark sometime around 2023 and I kept running into people asking about it or linking to a dead URL.
I dug up a copy from the Wayback Machine, stripped out all the Internet Archive scaffolding so it actually runs cleanly as a standalone page, and put it back up:
https://learn-cw.neocities.org
Nothing fancy - I didn't write any of it, that's all HB9FXW's work. I just wanted it to be accessible again. There's a note at the top of the page making clear it's an archival copy and pointing back to the original author if they ever want it taken down. If you haven't tried it before, it's genuinely one of the better head-copying trainers out there. Runs entirely in the browser, no account, no ads, no cookies.
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I’m looking to build or buy a multiband vertical - at least 10, 20, and 40 meters. I’m having a difficult time deciding on one, or deciding to build one… I’d like it to be self-supported, it will be mounted to my chimney on my roof if that matters. I’m not in an HOA or anything, but it cant look too bulky, so as much as I’d love a tower and a beam a simple thin vertical needs to be the solution. What are your recommendations? It’ll be used with a tuner as well so it doesn’t need to be perfectly resonant.
Southern Wisconsin - I just grew this lawn from seed (bluegrass mix) and a month in I have a lot of these. Should I be pulling them? Or is there a spray I can spot treat these without killing my young grass? Any advice welcome.
I saw this tackle kit at TJ Maxx while shopping with my wife so I had to buy it for myself 🤣. The fish shaped multitool it actually really funny - but if you had only this tackle what would YOU rig up first to catch some fish? Are you going spoon or jig head? And which plastic would you use? Really just more curious about other peoples thoughts. I have plenty of other tackle but this was just too cute to not buy.
PS what are the two black things on the left?
Yesterday I used a U-Haul as an antenna with my new FT-891 portable pack. It contains a MAT-125E tuner and I’m using a 9:1 balun with an alligator clip for makeshift antennas. It also has 12ah of lifepo4 battery power, which I estimate will run the radio for 4-6 hours.
Yesterday I used a U-Haul as an antenna with my new FT-891 portable pack. It contains a MAT-125E tuner and I’m using a 9:1 balun with an alligator clip for makeshift antennas. There’s also 12ah of lifepo4 batteries which I estimate will run the radio for 4-6 hours