🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

I can say without a doubt of all technically oriented communities the HAM radio community is by far the most rude, hostile, and least educated in their field of any group.

The amount of just pure idiocy and lack of understanding of even the basics is astonishing considering this is a licensed trade.

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LOL!

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My antenna on my roof as viewed from the ground.

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Redoing this poll due to a suggestion by @kilroy_was_here ...

What name do you like best for a non-profit #FOSS community for Ham Radio? Think Apache incubator but for Ham plus other open-source services and resources for the community.

FYI I have both the dot com and dot org as well as the hyphenated and non hyphenated versions of the below. Please mention which variant you prefer in comments.

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So I am starting a #FLOSS HAM community.. Think apache for Ham radio. The idea is to address the state of open source software and standards in HAM radio.

Anyone, particularly open-source devs have any interest in talking to me about this, even if its just to make sure their ideas are considered as I launch... but people who want to help more directly are welcome too.

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What name do you like best for a non-profit #FOSS community for Ham Radio? Think Apache incubator but for Ham plus other open-source services and resources for the community.

FYI I have both the dot com and dot org as well as the hyphenated and non hyphenated versions of the below. Please mention which variant you prefer in comments.

#Ham #HamRadio #Amateur #AmateurRadio #RF #Radio #Foss #Floss #OpenSource #Programming

So apparently I just realized when i first started as a ham over a decade ago I participated in an E-M-E contact (Earth-Moon-Earth). I had no idea what it was at the time but i see in my notes it just says "EME net?" and now as a more expiernced ham i literally know I was talking with someone by bouncing our signals off the moon..... soooo cool.

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What do you hardcore #linux users use for #Ham radio logging?

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Found a nice little group of guys, mostly in west virginia who apparently are on 3.803MHz every night 8 - 9pm... it is right in the sweet spot for my antenna (80 meters band i have a limited window where it tunes up very nicely). Happy I found the group so i have something to do. All really clear tonight, s9+10 so very promising. its about a 280 mile contact, which is pretty decent for 80m too.

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QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111122592773547938

Another amazing 10 meter contact... this time 5,300 miles to argentina over RTTY!

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QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111112115741580199

Just got my first 10 meter contact on the new antenna! 2,400 miles away in washington on 28.1MHz... 59 signal over RTTY.... very happy with this antenna so far

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QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111112115741580199

Weird, all the bands are open, but no one is on voice....

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WOOOOOT! First contact on 80 meters on my new antenna. 3.892MHz, 290 miles (PA to west virginia).

The last antenna (same model and configuration) never worked on 80m because we never tuned the whip right... but this one everything was 59, excellent stuff!

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QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111112115741580199

Made my first contact on my new antenna... 15m band, 1400 miles (PA to Texas).

Cant wait until this evening to see how well it does on 80 meter!

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QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111112115741580199

The antenna is up, tuned, and working!

(Video attached, analysis and pictures in first reply)

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I'm trying to implement the complete v2.2 Ax.25 stack.. made a lot of progress but the more progress I make the more I realize this was a really poorly designed protocol.

#AX25 #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Software #Programming #Ruby

Just released v3 of my Ruby KISS library.

https://rubygems.org/gems/kiss-tnc

https://git.qoto.org/digipex/kiss-tnc

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If you do any sort of #Electronics work where you have to strip tiny wires of 20 AWG or less I highly recommend you get yourself a precision wire stripper.

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My #Radio station ( #APRS ) is routinely hitting 1000 miles to 4000 miles. Check it out:

https://aprs.fi/info/a/WI2ARD

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My old antenna fell down after almost a decade. It performed so well i bought the same brand again and am putting another one back up today. Its quite tall (like 30 or 40 feet or sonething) and requires the whole roof to be covered in radials. This tine im coating the radials with tar to embed them into the roof itself. Quite the project but it will be worth it.

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