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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES

@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
mastodon 4.6.6
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Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why).
CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

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Joined January 12, 2021
CW:
good for SOTA and not too complex QSO
Software:
free/open source
Locator:
im98ri99
Logging:
QRZ.com QRZCQ.com eQSL.com

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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Jul 27, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place
@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place @flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange @joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech I found Codeberg's announcement (https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html) very instructive to read.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Jul 16, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @iso7010@hacksrus.xyz
@iso7010@hacksrus.xyz https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:grs:7010:E051
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · May 28, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @oz1lqo@techhub.social
@oz1lqo@techhub.social I clearly recognize the 8088, but I don't know what the other chip is.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · May 15, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Carole King fans would respectfully like to add "Only Love is Real, Everything Else Illusion"...
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · May 07, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @vk2bea@mastodon.radio
@vk2bea@mastodon.radio Thanks for the clarification!
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · May 07, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @vk2bea@mastodon.radio
@vk2bea@mastodon.radio In IARU R1, the band 1240 to 1300 MHz is assigned to amateurs ("the 23 cm band"). I have never used this band. How much interference do hams receive from Galileo, Beidu or QZSS satellites? #GNSS #23cm
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 17, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio

I joined Mastodon.radio some years ago and started following mostly hams and almost exclusively radio users. I only favour but never (almost never) boost non-radio posts. I post radio stuff almost exclusively. In spite of all that, my timeline is full of non-radio stuff: computers, AI, politics,... Is there something I've done wrong? Or is ham radio a sideshow for many of the accounts I follow?

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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 15, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio

Together with Xisco, EC6PG, I teach #cw courses in #catalan at the #cwacademy #cwopsAcademy. The CW Academy does not offer any courses in #spanish yet, but there are people who keep asking for them. If a Spanish-speaking ham out there is willing to teach (advise) a course, We have Beginners and Fundamental courses prepared, with all materials in Catalan (a sister language), and complete planning notes for advisors, and we're happy to share them; maybe they can be translated easier. Contact me.

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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 14, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio

I really can't get the hang of this software development style.
https://github.com/lquesada/qFT8/issues/11#issuecomment-4232616467

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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 13, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @wd9ewk@mastodon.radio
@wd9ewk@mastodon.radio Weird
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 13, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @wd9ewk@mastodon.radio
@wd9ewk@mastodon.radio Why would anyone do that?
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 12, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @b0rk_reruns@social.jvns.ca
@b0rk_reruns Aren't these the "emacs" bindings? If I type set -o vi I get vi-style bindings.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 08, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @ly2en@chaos.social
@ly2en It does not look right to me either.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Apr 07, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Garwboy@ohai.social
@Garwboy I had to look "widdershins" up.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Mar 22, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @clever_reports@mastodon.art
@clever_reports Wait, aren't rapeseed flowers bright yellow? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Mar 16, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @DJ5CW@social.darc.de
@DJ5CW@social.darc.de Fabian, thanks a million for LCWO.net! Great tool!
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Mar 14, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @tsherrygeo@m.ai6yr.org
@tsherrygeo Now wait. Did you really find a vacuum tube on a summit?
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 22, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @G4IVV@mastodon.radio
@G4IVV @vk6flab VARA is a prime example of what shouldn't be allowed on our bands.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @vk6flab@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab Didn't know about Echolink. There's an open-source software, QTel, which one can use to communicate to Echolink architecture. The rise of encumbered digital modes is worrying.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @vk6flab@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab Yes, V3, corrected. Thanks!
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab #FT2 Epilogue: even if everything were legal, the code for the modified WSJT-X host were published, and the communication between host and client is clearly documented, I would still oppose this way of doing digital: there would be another proprietary mode out there that is not fully documented and that would require the use of closed-source software to use. Not the ham spirit of sharing and experimenting.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab #FT2 It remains to be seen in which case we are. That would not be possible until the developers publish the sources for the modified WSJT-X host under the GPL v.3 licence. Then we could analyse what's going on. (5/5)
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

@vk6flab #FT2

  • If the modified WSJT-X software communicates with the proprietary FT2 encoder/decoder via a formal, documented interface (like a pipe, a socket, or a command-line argument), they are often considered separate programs.

  • If Martino and colleagues added a generic plugin architecture to WSJT-X that could be used by anyone writing "plugins" similar to the one they wrote FT2, and then happens to use it for their proprietary tool, it would be harder to prove a breach.

(4/5)

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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab #FT2 However, one could contend that, if the modified WSJT-X shares complex data structures or intimate memory spaces with the FT2 encoder-decoder, it is a derivative work. In this case, the proprietary #FT2 "plugin" must be open-sourced, or the developer is in breach. What would be "acceptable"? (3/5)
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab So here's the deal: #FT2 leverages WSJT-X as a platform by modifying it so that it works with their proprietary encoder-decoder. When #FT2 publishes the modified WSJT-X "host" and the proprietary FT2 encoder/decoder "client" separately, have they solved the copyright breach? Apparently, perhaps, yes. (2/5)
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 21, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

@vk6flab #FT2 OK, Martino IU8LMC came back to me. He basically says:

  1. The FT2 encoder-decoder is his own work, and he reserves the right to publish the sources.
  2. He's aware of the copyright breach will soon distribute the sources of the modified version of WSJT that accommodates the encoder-decoder.

(1/5)

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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 20, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab I just wrote an email message to K1JT.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 20, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

mastodon.radio
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab Just wrote to Martino IU8LMC to warn him of this violation. Should I also contact the WSJT team?
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 20, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

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Replying to @vk6flab@mastodon.radio
@vk6flab Now that you say that, I think you're absolutely right! #FT2 #pirates
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 20, 2026
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

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#FT2, "the fastest mode" is currently only available on Windows and there is no source code. It should not be in our bands like that.

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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Nov 10, 2025
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

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Replying to @cmconseils@mastodon.social
@cmconseils@mastodon.social The reconstructed Protoindoeuropean (PIE) word that gave "wolf" in some languages and "fox" in other languages, *wĺ̥kʷos, could be an adjective meaning "dangerous". And yes, this may also be the case of *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, the PIE word for "bear" ("Arctic" comes from this because of Ursa Minor, the Big Dipper). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/w%C4%BA%CC%A5k%CA%B7os
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Sep 13, 2025
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

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Replying to @yurnidiot@mstdn.social
@yurnidiot@mstdn.social the cat density was too close to criticality!
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Feb 26, 2025
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

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Replying to @hamlab@sutemos.lt
@hamlab I used to program on a VAX 11/780 in the mid eighties.
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Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio · Jan 13, 2025
Mikel Forcada EA5IYL / N7EES
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio

Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Struggling to improve my CW and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and more recently satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open; 6 m is good too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why). CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.

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Replying to @hamlab@sutemos.lt
@hamlab@sutemos.lt on a ham frequency?
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