I take it the price of eggs hasn't gone down www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Cloudlog 2.8.6 stable release is now available for download. This brings new awards pages for POTA & SOTA, SimpleFLE now correctly handles comments & a totally redesigned Notes system Its rolling out to Cloudlog Managed customers at this very moment.

I've added locator.clublog.org to Club Log. Using vector not PNG raster tiles for the first time. It seems really great (very sharp text on retina displays even if zoomed).

Yes, it's become completely normal for this terrible man to say and do terrible things, and the governments of the world just ignore it.

The richest individual on Earth should not own the keys to the largest disinformation machine on the planet. It's not censorship to switch X off. It's common sense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PO-101 will be active for the following schedules in UTC + 0: 2026/01/07 - 2026/01/07 09:01 - 12:16 2026/01/07 - 2026/01/08 22:40 - 07:26 2026/01/08 - 2026/01/09 22:43 - 08:33 73 de DW4TA

What do you reckon, is this an event for which future historians will state “and thus the WWIII started”? Or are we already there? 😮 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

Good morning to all the "I voted for Trump because I wanted America out of all those wars abroad" people.

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

Cloudlog 2.8.4 is now released into the wild. Read the release notes to find out what changed. If you're a Cloudlog Managed customer its rolling out to everyone at the moment. github.com/magicbug/Clo...

An article mentioning the #rsgb #Raynet has popped up on the #BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #hamradio

I can only imagine what a massive red flag my deleting twitter and signing up for bluesky must be 🙄 Luckily, I've no plans to visit them any time soon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AU7RS - Lakshadweep Isl. www.hamradioworld.org/post/au7rs-l...

That's #9L8MD nabbed on 12m #RTTY 🎊 Oh, wait... it's my computer to their computer... is #RTTY a "real #hamradio " then?

Pandemonium on 15m FT8: 5k0ua, 9u1ru, and 6o3t all on 21.074 😬 #hamradio #dx

Less than 1/2h to @psbhq.bsky.social matinee at the #barbican #london 🎵

Lots are asking, so: (subject to change, don't shout at me if they do) Matinee: 2.30pm - doors 3.00pm - PSB + LCO 4.45pm (ish) - done (NB if either show is more likely to run late, it’s the matinee) Evening: 7.30pm - doors 8pm - Hamish Hawk 8.50pm - PSB + LCO 10.40pm (ish) - done

Finally, I got to read this month's #rsgb RadCom, and what can I say... It's 2025, and they still publish letters to the editor from some who argue how only their favourite pastime is "real hamradio" and nothing else is 🙄 They surely know how to attract youth to #hamradio

Double success for today's contact with scouts in the UK! 22 kid questions asked and answered, and they were able to see Jonny Kim live on station via HamTV. Thanks to SP5LOT for sharing this HamTV capture on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-r...

Now live: the #amsatuk space colloquium. youtube.com/live/yk6zI9P...

I look forward to meeting fellow #hamradio fans at #rsgb convention over the weekend (although the plan is to mostly spend it at the #amsatuk 🛰 Colloquium). Do say hello if you see me.

Heck lets release it early Cloudlog 2.7.3 now available with the brand new bandmap feature. Please read all the documentation. You will also need the new Cloudlog Aurora 2.0 if you want to use QSY to Freq. github.com/magicbug/Clo...

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon.... And why it was finally time to leave. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

In between working on the improved bandmap and cat control functions, I have started working on a brand new website for Cloudlog and wanted to include a bit about the history behind it.

Cloudlogs' new DX Cluster Band Map is now in the dev branch; this is what I always wanted it to be! Outstanding job is clicking on a spot QSYs the radio, but I am happy with the progress so far

🚀 DXChrono is LIVE! Interactive world clock & DX tool: time zones, solar data, aurora, ITU/CQ zones + Cloudlog support. Try it now ➡️ www.dxchrono.com

Cloudlog 2.7.0 has been released github.com/magicbug/Clo... If you're a Cloudlog-hosted customer, it's currently rolling out across the system.

A couple of weeks back, I was planning my holidays in Iceland 🇮🇸, hoping to activate a few rare grids on #hamradio LEO #satellite. In the run-up to my them, I tried hard to leave nothing to chance: I had a spare coax, audio cables, diplexer, batteries... even got myself a brand new #arrowantenna 1/9🧵

Some 3000 Km (~2000 miles) later, down the 🇮🇸 Ring Road counterclockwise, and I've arrived in Reykjavik. I tried to activate all the grids along the way, but, frustratingly, a combination of bad weather during my stay (IP13)... 1/4 🧵

I had a very frustrating day trying to activate 🇮🇸 IP15 on #hamradio #satellite In my 1st attempt it turned out I couldn't hear anyone calling me because I was listening 10 KHz lower than my actual downlink. In my subsequent attempts, I couldn't hear any stations. 1/3 🧵

I've uploaded my yesterday's #hamradio #satellite activity from IP13 to #lotw Please let me know if you spot any missing.

This is the log for my yesterday's #hamradio #satellite activity from HP93. Please let me know if I've missed to log anyone. Shout out to @2m0sql.com , whose Portable Planner made this a much simpler experience than ever before.

Arrived safely at Heimaey Island, one of the Vestmannaeyjar Isles, 🇮🇸 HP93uk. Weather is rather poor, persistent drizzle currently making it impossible to operate #hamradio outdoors. 🤞it improves in time for tonight's RS-44 pass I'd tentatively announced earlier this week.

Big news! I've launched the official landing page for Zenith Satellite Tracker. You can now explore its capabilities directly on the web, even without dedicated hardware support. Check it out: zenithtracker.org

Yes, use it or lose it.. every #hamradio Operator needs to act!🎙📡〰️📻 🛰 Get ready and send interference reports if you have them. Don't forget Bluewalker-3 and Bluebird 1-5, which are already transmitting on 430-440 MHz. Expect no help from anybody else than yourself!

Byline Times:

Thanks, but I think I'll rather stick with fermented dinosaurs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Cool to see PortablePlanner.com get a mention in the REF magazine

From anecdotal evidence it seems to me, after a few recent popular roves, that everyone’s worked most 🇮🇸 TF grids on #hamradio #LEO #satellites. gridmaster.fr disagrees. The real state is probably somewhere in-between, so I’ll try to do my bit to make this image just a shade greener.

ELRIN completes two T2T human genomes — using only #Nanopore data. As part of their mission to advance clinical diagnostics, ELRIN has released two complete, haplotype-phased genomes—enabling deeper insights into genetic variation that could inform future clinical research elrin-network.eu/t2t.html

Back to good old-fashioned diet + exercise then? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice economy you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

I already posted this on #mastodon but had little traction, so reposting here hoping that I'll be luckier. After a rogue gust of wind tipped over my tripod-mounted #hamradio #satellite #Arrow2Antenna, its 2m reflector snapped (I shouldn't complain, for I'd had a similar "close call" already) 🧵1/7

Is it just me, or has this got a distinct whiff of "Saddam Hussain can deploy WMDs in 45 minutes"? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why does the network backbone of Telegram matter? Because as @pwnallthethings.bsky.social was pointing out in 2022 (www.pwnallthethings.com/i/86455222/t...), Telegram's in-house TLS replacement provides a cleartext permanent device ID! The network can follow users across WiFis, data plans, etc.

Dark and cold of space. An accident. A miracle - the ingenious ground crew at NASA, thousands of miles away, talks the astronauts through their repairs despite the fact that they cannot see what the astronauts see, except That this is actually me talking two retirees through uploading a file

If you're worried about droughts, floods, and increased likelihood of other extreme weather events, worry no more: in the latest #rsgb #radcom there's a letter to the editor that explains this is all just a hoax 🙄 This must be a novel attempt of attracting youth to #hamradio.

Super happy implemented Pass Recording into QTRigDoppler that @dl3jop maintains/develops, this is now my go-to tool for radio/rotator control for sats now :)