My 9 year old nephew has been making stop motion videos for a few weeks now.

Here’s the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBl2XzyE7rI

👌

Well, I clicked the button to “tax” my car. Even though there’s no fee! And actually I’ve not really used it much for months now.

Over 400 people replied to the GQRP club’s survey about holding the convention online, and most were keen.

That’s an impressive number! When I went to the live convention a couple of years ago there were probably about 40 of us there in total!

It makes me think that when things go back to normal talks also need streaming.

NASA have been making images of the sun every 0.75 seconds for a decade, that’s pretty amazing.

They released a video where each second is a full day, at:

https://youtu.be/l3QQQu7QLoM

I found this via: https://kottke.org/20/06/a-decade-of-sun

which also lists the days a few cool things happened.

WSJT-X 2.2.2 is out. It’s a bugfix release with some decoder speedups, so that’s cool:

It is particularly targeted for slower single board computer users such as the Raspberry Pi Model 3 or similar.

Announced at: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37043488/

And release notes at: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

#hamradio #ft8

This article on magnetic amplifiers is really interesting: https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/the_magnetic_amplifier

#electronics

Yay, my yearly fortnight of moderate stress at work is basically over, and now we move into the season of many interns.

Of course this year we got a puppy to act as a stress multiplier 😂

Here’s Kin the golden retriever. About .9.5 weeks old and made of teeth….

It’s nice to see the RSGB’s response to the Ofcom EMF consultation:

http://rsgb.org/main/files/2020/06/200605_Ofcom-EMF-Consultation_RSGB-Response.pdf

I’ve only skimmed it, but it looks to be detailed and well argued, and recommends some tweaking to license wording, rather than anything more extreme.

In my mind this is why we should be paying our national societies!

#hamradio #amateurradio

Ohh, WSJT-X 2.2.1 was released with some bug and regression fixes. Get it at http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html

See: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37031060/ for the announcement.

Release notes at: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

Looks like it’s worth grabbing for the fixes. It’s interesting that they statically link their own hamblib that’s much more recent than the last release.

#hamradio #amateurradio #ft8

The GQRP club convention is running remotely this year.

I have mixed feelings about this. I’m increasingly of the opinion that if I can’t physically go to the thing then I’m going to find it hard to make time for it.

There’s a survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F7CNQS6 which is also open to interested non-members.