Beautiful sunny day here on the Fen Edge. World crises survived? 1. Suez ✔️ 2. Cuban Missile crisis. ✔️ 3. Global Pandemic. ✔️ 4. Taco Tuesday. ✔️ Good to be still here

TACO Tuesday

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

2of2 Someone on the IC9700 groups.io posted the same in 2025, but no fix. Anyone know how to fix this? Otherwise do @icomuk.bsky.social do repairs and who do I contact?

HELP!! while fitting an SDR board to my @icomuk.bsky.social IC9700, It seems to have bricked itself. Apply power and the green Power light comes on followed shortly brother red TX/RX light. Can't do a full factory reset as per the manual. No response. 1/2

In the words of Carl Sagan

"We were just about to drop off when suddenly, 'tap, tap, tap' at the bloody window pane. We looked out, you know who it was?" "Who?" "Bloody Tim Peake."

Brilliant!!

Im sure it sucked in the 80s. Berwick speedway aside. However its reinvented itself as a somewhat middle class artisan town. And to be fair, it makes it a nice place for a day trip... but expensive. The food and drink is good tho, £7 Peruvian chocolate bars, less so.

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Last week with the support of @goonhilly.org the UK ARISS team assembled and installed a new HamTV ground station to Cornwall to provide downlink for the School Contact at the Simon Langton Grammar School this coming Monday. This afternoon it provided first AoS of the HDMI Camera test!

Great addition to the NRC

#lufc 🫣 #MOT

76. 'H. G. Wells worried constantly about the future of humanity.' #SciFi #TabClosed2026

Tell you what, mate, why don't you pop out there in a pedalo and show everyone how safe it is?

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

'We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one expanding suburb at a time.' 🧪 🔭

Absolutely brilliant! 🤣

Glorious Sunny Day on the Fen Edge. 10 VHF Elements waiting against a perfect blue sky in anticipation of the Spring Es propagation season and some Spring equinox F2 openings. #hamradio #magicbands #50/70MHz #VHFDX

Valentines dinner, 🥰 Greek Style!

I appreciate it's an increasingly ironic position to believe in "tech for good" especially when the phrase is co-opted by grifters and techbro philosophers, but: Absent of the thirst to spend money on crap, we have greater capability to make stuff to improve lives than ever before. We just don't.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

If you've heard me cite the Yeats poem, The Second Coming, to describe what Trump is doing then you'll enjoy this little bit of genius as much as I did...

Nice Aurora AuE opening on 6m just after 9pm. OH,LY,OZ, SM plus G/GM. Mixture of FT8 for AuE and CW for Au. ODX OH5BM in KP41PL at 2024km via AuE FT8

Today's best football-based social media post by a long chalk!

Reading the poem "Not Waving but Drowning" right now and I have no idea why but it's...it's how things are right now. Maybe with me, maybe with the world.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter.

Hey, it's January!! Nearly time for Heelweg Microwave 26! Are you going? I am. www.pamicrowaves.nl

Fragrant Viburnum absolutely bossing it in the corner of my #FenEdge garden this mild winter morning. The scent is almost overpowering!

Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911. After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡 Image: NRAO

"The policy will be not have a policy, and that will be flexible"

Auschwitz - Birkenau 16 December 2025 Oswiecim, Poland

"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right." ― Martin Luther King Jr

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I’m so sick of stuff... Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume And now we’re obedient little little lemmings Read my rant here... open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

MYYYYY GOD MISS JONES

You need some lemons on that, Vlad

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Nearly the weekend! Pondering whether to have a play in CQWW CW…

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

2/2 The plot shows two feint signal tracks PE9GHZ (Goes) left and PA3GCO (Rotterdam) right, and the much stronger GB3PKT (Clacton) on the right WebSDR url trig01.ddns.net:8073

Last night's rain over the southern North Sea gave some nice 24GHz rainscatter propagation from the PE9GHZ and PA3GCO beacons on the Margate WebSDR (1/2)