Apple Meshtastic client issue about it sending telemetry home without consent has been deleted. This is highly suspicious and I wouldn't trust the app anymore. Maybe it's time to fork it and clean out all the tracking. https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple/issues/1449 #meshtastic […]

Meshtastic iOS app breaks EU law with sending lots of telemetry (logs, usage) to DataDog in US wthout user consent and without any kind of notification of the app doing so. I reported this as issue and it got immediately closed without any explanation […]

I've been testing out DigiPi - a distro for Raspberry Pi which packs bunch of HAM software into nice web-usable form. The core thing in this project is quite grand: bring all these tools to one providing kinda "single tool" for all digital modes in easy way […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

Just added profile page feature to WWFF Spotline! I think turned out nice. https://spots.wwff.co/callsign/profile/OH3CUF-P #wwff #florafauna #hamradio #amateurradio

I have 8 meshtastic devices now. One on order. What the earth has happened? This is actually more fun than I thought. Social circles (meeting new people), hiding nodes in the trees, checking how our network is growing.. This is not about sending text messages at all! It's the everything else […]

This is second time the WSPR skip distances peak just at same time/before the solar storm hits earth's ionosphere. #propagation #radioweather #solarweather #solarstorm #ionosphere

I know these antennas are stupid and bad. I know I romantize the moment when I can just be like wannabe-KH1 & AX1. https://www.ebay.com/itm/135223665492 .. but should I still get one? Only the dissapointed, yet again, for a compromise antenna? #hamradio #qrp #portable #portableradio #amateurradi

World Wide Flora & Fauna - activation at OHFF-1975 #wwff #ohff #hamradio #amateurradio

Out city (Tampere) Meshtastic network has grown exponentially. One rogue solar node was deployed today which opened the network quite a lot! It's such fun to be part of this socially active and growing project! "Suomalaiset Meshtastic-harrastajat löytyvät […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

"Life is too long for QRO."

It always feels very nice when DX station sends HEI (or HEJ) in CW to me (HEI means "bye" in Finnish). Just hunted LZ2AF/P and I got HEI back! Some stations even say "MORO MORO" on SSB at the end (because of OH3FSR our crazy activator who uses that always at the end of QSO). Small things […]

OHFF-1977 It felt like this awesome summer just continues. #ohff #wwff #hamradio #amateurradio #tampere #outdoors #suomi

World Wide Flora & Fauna OHFF-1969 #wwff #ohff #pedalpoweredactivation #finland #swamp #tampere #hamradio #amateurradio

Today I used my CEPT license for the first time and was allowed to activate the Vadehavet National Park DK-0101 and OZFF-0004 as OZ/DK4MJ. There was a lot of activity on 20m and I managed 47 QSOs and thus also the activation in the WWFF program. I sometimes […] [Original post on bunt.social]

The bands are dead? The bands are dead! (continuing to wonder how nicely my web888 data shows the last nights solar fart) #wspr #solar #solarflare #hamradio #amateurradio

Yay! My web888 can see sun farts! :) Both FT8 and WSPR receiving went down on last night KP5+ geomagnetic activity. #web888 #solar #propagation #hamradio #amateurradio #sun

Life isn't too short for QRP. Today I went for 10W WWFF activation which turned into 5W activation as I forgot the battery lead home for my IC-705. Of course I could have thrown a tantrum but I just laughed and thought "well this is going to be now different" (changes are good for humans) I […]

It feels like catching a surf wave when 6m Es opens and I can make multiple CW QSOs. 5 to central Europe on 50091. Also multiple CW skimmers spotted me too, nice! #6m #magicband #esporadic #hamradio #amateurradio

Trying out QMX SSB this evening at WWFF ref. https://spots.wwff.co/agenda #qmx #wwff #ohff #ssb #hamradio #amateurradio

Photos from this year "Aurora" SRAL (Finnish Radioamateur League) summer camp: https://aurora.oh6ad.fi/Aurora%202025%20valokuvia/ #sral #oh6ad #aurora #oh #radioamateur #amateurradio #hamradio

I bought web888 and installed it with a MLA-30+ active loop antenna. Now I have personal FT8 skimmer for max 12 different bands (using now 7). I developed few scripts that plot the data and it all seems logical and stable. The web888 even provides SNR data […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

Me and @OG3E live radioshow from last friday on Radio Hami (FM & DAB+ radio station). You can use Youtube auto-translate to get the gist of our babbling and at the same time enjoy some excellent (HI HI) Finnish music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWb1ooF5dfY #radiohami #sral #wwff #ohff #radio

Finnish Radio Amateur Society (SRAL) summer camp is ongoing with over 450 HAMs only signed (+families). I played 2 hour DJ set on the summer camp radio Radio Hami (broadcasting on FM and on dual DAB+). My set was vinyl only and mostly Italo Disco + Italo […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

My new favorite WWFF activating setup: a popup tent. This can be set up in seconds. It keeps rain, mosquitto, wind out and the floor is fantastic to spread my stuff around. (photo from today when I was activating OHFF-1812) #wwff #ohff #amateurradio #hamradio #ham #tent #popuptent

SRAL - The Finnish Amateur Radio League SRAL, - summer camp is happening 17.–20.7.2025. Exciting stuff coming up for me as I'm having a speech about Spotline for Finnish WWFF community. After that me and @OG3E will host a one hour radio show on live FM/DAB […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

I didn't know that KiwiSDR supports NCDXF/IARU International Beacon Project scanning too! What a great way to check DX conditions. #ibp #iaru #ncdxf #kiwisdr

I've been watching space weather and all the dials and gauges I can find and it's really hard to find relationship between actual propagation and the conditions. It seems to make no sense: sometimes there is G1-G2 active and QSOs for just fine. Then some day all meters on green and propagation […]

"If BitX radios coudl be described in a song." "Liar" by Three Dog Night "I should have known better" by the Beatles "Castles Made Of Sand" -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience Dreamer -Supertramp :D :D https://groups.io/g/BITX20/topic/if_bitx_radios_coudl_be/113391970

Started hacking around with zBitx HF radio .. The SD card seem to be clone of the developers card, containing hundreds of lines of bash command histories, files in trash-folder (lots of stuff), github account etc. Also there are .ssh keys in place. I truly […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

Just playing with QRP labs radios today. Vertical MC-750, 3-4W and 20m got a good reach even the sun is throwing tantrums. First time listened the QMX SSB and it sounds really nice! #qrp #qrplabs #qmx #qcx #mc750 #chelegance #hamradio #amateurradio

What is this, going on since yesterday.. #cw #40m

"They say sunspot maximum is the golden age for HAMs..." Well, I'm now two summers deep into this relentless solar burping and D-layer thickening — and I respectfully disagree. Maybe the solar minimum is even worse? Either way, I’d like to file a complaint with the universe. I want my money […]

Hey look what just walked in from the door! #zbitx #hfsignals #radioamateur #amateurradio

Yesterday night I added new feature for WWFF Spotline and it works like magic! It has an feature called "RBN-Autospot" which basically listens for RBN spots and picks those that are on agenda as new spots. Works great. But then I added also which tracks latests spots (no agenda) too for one […]

Hey 6m band, what the .. ???? Argentina is heard here in Finland. #MagicBand

6m is LIT here in Europe. I made contacts on SSB and CW all over Europe with 50W on a dipole. The QSB is super fast. From 57 to absolute zero in few seconds. Two of my SSB contacts ended like that. #magicband #hamradio #amateurradio #radioamateur #6m

Quite a colorful Space Weather Enthusiasts Dashboard - haven't seen this kind of view yet. It will take few weeks from ionosphere to recover from this :D #spaceweather #hfpropagation

As the HF propagation is so crappy, I went to search for old radiosondes. Found one, which had been on the ground for year. It was quite degraded, birds must have borrowed the styrofoam. To my surprising the PCB was 100% intact, like a new one. Not a single […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

First time I saw circumzenithal arc ("upside down rainbow") - and this at QTH (you can see my ZS6BKW also on the photo). #circumzenithalarc #cza #atmosphere #atmosphereoptics #rainbow #upsidedownrainbow

Pedal powered activation today (.. well and a bit electric as always, which wasn't bad as there were some crazy hills on the 30km trip). I used max 10W to linked dipole without tuner. This might be a winner combo! Thanks to @on4vnt and @luk_on4bb for the […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

"Reminder: Spotline is coming soon!" https://wwff.co/2025/05/reminder-spotline-is-coming-soon/ "Spotline, WWFF’s new Spots & Agenda service, is coming soon. It will replace the current WWFF Cluster and Agenda, with the plan being to have it up and running on June 1st, 2025." (please spread to […]

Nice skip on 6m. This has been going on for two hours. I called CQ and three G-stations responded at the same time. Party time!

I make myself realtime pskreporter-map and it's actually pretty eye-opening. For example now it seems 10m is open between Europe and Brazil/Argentina. And 15m heavily open between US-EU. #hamradio #radioamateur #psk #pskreporter #ft8 #ham #propagation #hfpropagation #hampropagation

Spotline, WWFF's new Spots & Agenda service, is coming soon. It will replace the current WWFF Cluster and Agenda, with the plan being to have it up and running on June 1st, 2025. Among other things, Spotline features a telnet server that mimics DXSpider. This […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

N5J Jarvis video 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc48fexA5m4

I participated in the K.S. Sainio Memorial Contest today. The contest is part of the Finnish Radio Amateur League’s (SRAL) HF contest championship series. Worked all "old school": paper logs and no computers involved. My speed was of course much slower than […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

I personally believe that most effective way to speed up CW receiving is by practicing ICR (Instant Character Recognition). This method has had the largest effect on my receiving. Even short practices seem to have noticeable effect. I previously released iOS […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

Last sunday I went to activate an ATNO WWFF ref in an island that was only accessible by own boat. It's a big island next to Tampere City and is very popular during summer time - boats leaving there each hour. This time it was totally empty. I was the only […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]

View of Finnish WWFF map around my QTH. Blue ones = activated under 1 year. Green tree = ATNO. I like this (the green tree is at place i suggested). Evil me :) #wwff #ohff #atno #hamradio #radioamateur

I lacked interest to go activate WWFF but wanted to do some outdoor activities so I built myself a linked dipole antenna for 40m, 30m, 20m and 15m. It took me roughly 3 hours and LOTS of walking back and forth, some knee-soldering on grass and lots of trim […] [Original post on mastodon.radio]