Today in "Climate change ruins everything, even things you probably didn't expect": radio communications. Although apparently ham radio operators will see a slight upside, as these weird ionosphere events may make it more likely for them to pick up long-distance signals. 🧪⚛️

We did pretty well @pj4a. 8200 contacts 844 mults for 20.5M points multi-single. www.3830scores.com/showrumor.ph... #cqww #hamradio

Getting ready for the cqww cw. Here is the view of the pj4a antennas from one of the rx antenna sites.

Great hot sauce.

#ARRL Files Comments to Protect 70-Centimeter Amateur Band www.arrl.org/news/view/ar... #hamradio

rip Ozzy youtu.be/K0siYUjV9UM?...

world's shortest tower.

pl-259 soldering to rg-8x

lol

6m moxon

Clouds

Conure egg

it's hamvention time.

I’ve created a website to train for the Canadian Radio Amateur License. It’s a bit different from others, it shows the choices only on demand. And give explanations for the right answer. #hamradio 🇨🇦

rip w9mdb. a great loss to the ham open-source community. forums.qrz.com/index.php?th...

2100 qaos with dupes 2000 without. all 20m.

remote

The Overview, @stevenwilsonhq.bsky.social's new LP, includes a side-length opus titled "Objects Outlive Us" with lyrics by XTC's Andy Partridge. Wilson discusses working w/Partridge, as well as the possibility of further projects, in his new Innerviews interview: www.innerviews.org/inner/steven...

Dream Theater

Just did a quick vacation in #canada . Just across the border in Windsor. Enjoyed it, especially the Ukraine Restaurant and the people in general. Big ef-u to the us customs person opinion on our travel choices. A friend of mine used to say "If I wanted any shit from you I'd squeeze your head."

Last weekend, the DX Cluster Network suffered an attack. A large number of fake spots were sent during ARRL CW DX Contest. To keep the quality of the information of the cluster, server sysops are starting to request their users to be identified with a password before being able to send spots.

Where I spent my weekend I. beautiful Bonaire.

Next weekend is Hamcation and then to PJ4A for ARRL DX CW probably M/S.

I copied today's #Morsle at 40 WPM! morsle.fun

EU friends. Cool places to go for two week EU trip in March. Looking around Southern France.

Remote operation has been hit or miss. Something keeps messing with k3 causing it to key but not send rtty. connection over 5g a bit unstable. Wonder if that is messing with the sound settings. Never worked n9tk.

Arrl rtty roundup today. arrl.org/rtty-roundup

holycluster.iarc.org Check out this spotting cluster app.

One and done. :)

Good old ax.25

We watch this every winter. youtu.be/tuNXat5V-_w?...

A 59 second excerpt (bsky limits to 1 minute any uploaded video) of the new #WebMorseRunner that I mentioned 2 days ago. The current version is 0.3a. No pileup option yet but should be implemented (work in progress). Tnx #DJ1TF. #Morsecode #cw #hamradio

I'm loud? Burning up those clouds.

My kitty.

Some good prog metal. youtu.be/-1Vpe3QD1zI?...

Parts order to fix my 2 broken Astron RS-35s. One was from an estate sale so was pre-broken and the other was my stupid ass not paying attention.

Cleaned and new strings.

Wrapping up the PJ4 trip. Looks like 5th world multi-single. Lots of good competition this year.

Still some setup to do but will be on from WW4LL remote during ARRL SweepStakes SSB. Entering low power multi-op category because the remote amplifier controls are not setup yet. www.arrl.org/sweepstakes

Only 9 more days until PJ4/N8VW and then CQ WW CW with PJ4A.