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• Post #2565448

  I wish this weren't on xitter; calling out bad behavior on that platform feels ironic. But @josefprusa seems to me to be sanely connecting dots: https://xcancel.com/i/status/2054602354851254330 Don't recommend Bambu. #3DPrinting

• Post #2506074

  Today I had a successful POTA activation, logging zero QSOs. How did I do that? As a control operator of a club station, I supervised two new hams with Technician privileges making successful SSB QSOs on 20m, giving them a taste of what they'll be able to do on their own, once they get their General (or Amateur Extra) upgrades as each of them plans to do. Also, I helped one of them work on CW. I'll get my own 10 again another time. #HamRadio

• Post #2506073

  As of today, I'm accredited by Laurel VEC as a Volunteer Examiner. I've been encouraging folks to try #HamRadio so much, it's only fair that I volunteer to help administer tests too. 😁

• Post #2506072

  #HamRadio #MorseCode operators, get ready for #CW on ARRL/RAC Field Day! Use my version of Morse Walker to prepare to key (or keyboard!) your way to successful QSOs. Choose "Field Day" at the top.Set your Section and Class under "Your Station Settings" (and adjust "Responding Station Settings" and "Effects Settings" as desired).Press return in the "Response" or click "CQ".Copy a call as usual in Morse Walker, and press return to send....

• Post #2506071

  In case you are wondering whether NCVEC listens to quality feedback on the #HamRadio question pool, this forum post shows that yes they definitely do! https://forum.openhamprep.com/t/g3c02-what-is-meant-by-the-term-critical-frequency-at-a-given-incidence-angle/542?u=mcdanlj So if you've had constructive thoughts for improvements to the General pool, now is a much better time to surface them than after the next version of the pool is announced. For example, I've heard complaints like...

• Post #2506070

  From AD0WE's QRZ page, I found The Art and Skill of Radio-Telegraphy by N0HFF, which is the first Morse Code learning resource I've read that recommends a practice that I started doing naturally: vividly imagining morse as a learning technique. Sit quietly in a chair, close your eyes, relax, and imagine you are hearing each letter sound (just as you heard it), taking them one at a time, and immediately recognizing it or writing it down with a pencil. Make the picture as realistic and vi...

• Post #2438919

  This is amazing. EA1FUO has built nec2c into WebAssembly, and now you can do antenna simulations on your phone or desktop without depending on nec2c running on a server. You can also deploy it locally, and he provides instructions for how to do this on docker or bare, and you can run nec2c on the server if you like. Takes seconds to simulate my inverted V, and it even displays updates on what it is doing while running the simulation. It then gives a 3d rendering that you can drag around to get...

• Post #2159283

  Today I learned about NS6T's azimuthal map generator which will let you see, from any specified point in the world, the direction to anywhere else in the world (or, optionally, to anywhere within a fixed number of kilometers). #HamRadio

• Post #1874943

  QRP Labs is running a Hamvention special for US customers to hopefully reduce shipping costs, if FDIM or Hamvention delivery, or USPS from Ohio during Hamvention, works for you. This includes anything in their store, including radios (assembled or kit), parts, and the Morserino M32 Pocket. (Obligatory disclaimer: I'm just a customer, no stake in this...) #HamRadio #QRPLabs

• Post #1785637

  Friends don't let friends recommend Bambu https://www.xda-developers.com/developer-restored-orcaslicers-features-bambu-lab-killed-legal-threats-arrived/ #3DPrinting

• Post #1752281

  Updated to Fedora 44, and discovered pretty quickly that middle click is disabled. 🤮 Not a big fan of Jordan Petridis right now. The attitude in his pull request was not awesome. Next I expect GNOME will remove the ability entirely with the excuse that "nobody uses it" since that was also used as part of the excuse for disabling it by default, calling all of us who use it a "nobody" which is kind of disrespectful. They didn't even add it to settings. The repair is not p...

• Post #1539393

  The myth of Mythos. 🤔 https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

• Post #770846

  One more #HamRadio operator in the family as of this evening, just waiting for a call sign to be assigned. 🎉

• Post #309506

  RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296 If you pull the trigger on a gun, you are responsible for whatever the bullet does, regardless of whether you intended the particular outcome. The legal consequences of a bad outcome might be different based on your intent (e.g. manslaughter is a lesser charge than first degree murder) but the fact of your responsibility doesn't change. If you loose an AI agent on the world, giving it "agency" to interact "autonomously&...