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Here are the toots from my Mastodon account. If you’re into ham radio and technology this is a great inclusive server with an awesome mascot called Alex.

It's Alex! A soft brown mastodon holding a handheld radio in their right hand and carrying a blue bag over their shoulder

Alex, the mastodon.radio mascot

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OK, so I don’t use the 30% keyboards I built in the past, but I still want one of these:

https://www.40percent.club/2020/08/gherkin-express.html

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Great news, the GQRP convention will be making recordings available after the weekend.

Pretty sure I can’t be at my computer from Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 10:00 - Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 19:0, so that’s perfect!

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The lineup for the GQRP club online convention looks good!

• “Building QRP transceivers” with Hans Summers G0UPL, designer and manufacturer of the QCX QRP transceiver.

• “HF propagation and QRP” with Steve Nichols G0KYA, author and chairman of the RSGB’s Propagation Studies Committee

• “Homebrew SSB Transceivers” with Pete Juliano N6QW, co-presenter of the Soldersmoke podcast and a prolific home brewer.

are just a few I could fit!

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The maintainer of hamlib has asked for bug reports/feedback on whether a number of rigs (marked alpha, beta and untested) work with WSJT-X.

There’s a list at: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37062608/

#wsjt #ft8

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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

👌

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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.

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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.

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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.

A false colour image of the sun when interesting things were happening . There are coronal holes and loops visible on the surface. This is a screenshot of the NASA video mentioned in the toot

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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

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

#electronics

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