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I wonder if any radio operators utilize isolated grounds in their radio rooms. These outlets are typically orange and have a green triangle printed on the cover.

#Winter For those in the northern hemisphere, have you begun preparing your snow blower. This could include oil change, new gasoline, running the engine or other maintenance activities.

US debt surpasses 100% of GDP for the first time since World War II. The United States is officially insolvent.

Honestly X (Twitter) could ban the entire state of Minnesota and I would be fine with it.

Consumer electronics made in 70’s, 80’s and the 90’s with rubber feet are experiencing chemistry first hand as the plastic and rubber turn to goo. Have you experienced said goo? #Electronics

Everyone knows the real dark web is only reachable by running IPX.

Any time I think of Rockwell Automation I think of this https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?is=NNe9Az05V_7j9kX3

@lizakowski@sfba.social If you want the best performance traditionally you would put the “base” antenna outside and use LMR400 or 600 to feed it. That comes with a penalty in signal loss and cost. Today you put up a mesh solar powered repeater and it uses a short jumper to connect both pieces of equipment. The higher the better. Here is an overkill base antenna. https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/cma-kp-20

6.955 pirate radio 1990’s alternative music.

Tuesday through Thursday should be in the lower 90s across much of the state but most days start out around 70. Thursday is when the broader heat dome (our third big one of 2026) begins to buckle. The northwest flow centers over Minnesota, and a front drags through our best widespread chance of rains this week. Have a great afternoon.

For $2400 dollars Russell Bliss sprayed every road in Times Beach Missouri. For $33 million dollars the federal government bought the entire town and burned it to the ground. Between those two numbers is the story of how a chain of decisions, each one a little cheaper than the last, erased a community of 2000 people from the map and turned the place where they’d raise their families into a grass covered mound that hikers walk over today without knowing what’s beneath their feet.

@VE2UWY@mastodon.radio @doskel@masto.doskel.net Maybe it was run in a hospital operating room.

Though no one tracks the migration of LGBTQ+ people from one place to another, a poll conducted by NORC suggests that roughly 400,000 trans adults fled red states in the six months after the 2024 election. Another 1.2 million trans people were estimated to be considering such moves. Meanwhile, private donations have shrunk and grant opportunities have disappeared as the president warns against using federal funding to “promote gender ideology.”

Doc, you built a Time Machine?! Yes Marty. Get in we need to make sure Google is never created, Elon Musk is never born, and Sam Altman is eaten by a shark.

August 8th is International Cat Day and so the amateur radio community will be hosting cat pictures via SSTV on this day. My opinion is all frequencies that are authorized should be used for SSTV. We can’t really call it a competition because clearly my cat would win so instead the goal is to celebrate all cats, big and small.

@admin@mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net They came through around 4AM producing a low consistent rumble that shook the house. While only 50 miles per hour it was enough to wake me up. No damage reported.

Taking donations to purchase a “Hack the Planet” necklace like the one captured by the FBI from the Scattered Spiders.

6 Months of AI Radio Went About as Badly as You'd Expect The experiment was simple. A company gave four AI models $20 each and a fistful of instructions, then left them to their own devices. So, how did it go? Poorly, as you might expect. Andon Labs says that the longer the experiment ran, the more ridiculous things became. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-ran-four-radio-stations-for-six-months/

@VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio It’s been a pleasure knowing you. Lol You have two alternate options, liver or lutefisk. Muhahaha

Most arrived with jobs and rental agreements. But after Trump took office and further emboldened conservative lawmakers to strip trans people of rights, Seattle leaders say they began to hear from people with no plan, only a desperate need to move immediately. “Most people don’t come to us saying, ‘I want to move to Seattle.’ They say, ‘I need to get the hell out now,’” said Aspen Coyle, a program manager for Traction. “It’s been chaos.

It's just one of several Seattle nonprofits whose leaders say they don’t have the resources to help the number of trans people who’ve left their homes for the safety of the Pacific Northwest. Though trans people make up just 1 percent of the population in Washington state, the nonprofits that help them say their budgets are drained and their staffs are stretched so thin that last month the Seattle LGBTQ Commission asked Mayor Katie Wilson (D) to declare a civil state of emergency.

@Megawatt@infosec.exchange That’s supposed to be one of the most haunted places in America.

Seattle has long been known as one of the country’s most trans friendly cities. It banned discrimination on the basis of gender 40 years ago. Its hospitals were among the first to offer gender transition care to young people. Those protections have always drawn trans people from elsewhere, but in the years before Trump won reelection, nonprofit leaders say, the numbers were small enough, and the newcomers so prepared, that organizations could easily help people settle in.

@Megawatt@infosec.exchange Looks pretty cool.

@h2onolan@infosec.exchange It was?

@Galley@mastodon.online As a person who lives near Minneapolis Minnesota I’m ok with that.

“Law enforcement officers will be controlling access to and from affected areas to protect property and ensure the safety of homeowners, utility crews, and first responders working in the impacted locations,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. The two people that were hospitalized are expected to be okay. An emergency shelter has been set up by the Red Cross at M State College for anyone in need of help. Local officials are asking residents and visitors to avoid the Floyd Lake area.

She was sucked into the ascending current of a cumulonimbus cloud, a cloud responsible for large and heavy rains, usually with hail inside and extremely low temperatures. Unable to get out, she was lifted to an altitude of 10,054 metres (32,986 ft), according to her global positioning system (GPS) data. The GPS variometer also tracked vertical speeds of up to 21 m/s (77 kilometres per hour (48 mph)).

They were just 21 and 20 with no money or job prospects, so Harmony reached out to a Seattle nonprofit for help getting out of Florida. The nonprofit, a trans-led organization called Traction, welcomed the couple with a place to sleep and money for moving. But unbeknownst to Harmony, Traction was struggling, too. Since the 2024 election, Traction has helped 1,500 trans people flee red states — more than 20 times the 70 people it aided before the election.

Wilson has said she will decide by the end of August whether to authorize a state of emergency, which could free up $2.1 million and create a program to help LGBTQ+ newcomers navigate the city’s social services. In a nearly three-hour council committee meeting in late June, commission members said that without the declaration, some LGBTQ+ organizations might close, further straining the city’s already overtaxed safety net.

Such a declaration would free up general fund dollars to bolster the nonprofits’ finances as they help transplants find housing and jobs. “The conditions,” the commission wrote in a June 2 letter to Wilson and the City Council, “are an urgent policy concern and a life-and-death matter for internal displaced persons fleeing to Seattle for safety.”

If you’re hoping for relief in the humidity, you’re very much in luck. A weak frontal passage Monday afternoon does not bring us rain but it does drop dew points by 15 degrees to 23 degrees by the time you head home from work. Don’t get us wrong; it will still be hot, with air temperatures around 90 degrees but we will just will not be as swampy.

@swordgeek@mstdn.ca Great question. I suppose in a bind you could use cheese powder from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

#News #Wisconsin A tornado struck Wisconsin on Monday, splintering homes, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 30,000 people. The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in Winnebago County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. Damage was reported in cities including Appleton and Menasha, where Police Chief Matt Albrecht said a number of businesses and homes were “severely impacted.”

#Radio #Law SOMERSET, Ky. (WKYT) - The parent of a Pulaski County student filed a lawsuit alleging that Pulaski County Schools and law enforcement officials violated the student’s civil rights. The student, who holds a valid Federal Communications Commission amateur radio license, reportedly brought two-way radios to school with him at Southwestern High School on Jan. 31, 2025.

Some 5.3 million workers, 5% of NILFs have dropped out because they are discouraged or they’re not even bothering to look for work. In addition, up to 22% of America’s NILF population are on long-term illness, disability, or other forms of benefits representing more than 23.3 million Americans. EOF

Did you know that you can send SSTV cat pictures while using FM? Not only that, but by using an FM repeater even more people can enjoy your cat pictures. Don’t have a ham radio license? SSTV works on CB radio as well.

Inappropriate behavior on 14.230 MHz USB SSTV KN2BD is sending nazi swastiskas

Pirate radio on 6.975 USB #shortwave

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT WINONA...OLMSTED...MOWER... WABASHA...DODGE...FILLMORE...BUFFALO AND NORTHWESTERN TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES THROUGH 545 AM CDT... At 448 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Plum City to near Mantorville to near Clarks Grove. Movement was southeast at 40 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

@admin@mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net Minnesota is contributing to the problem with our fires.

Spooky that we have people living in Salam Massachusetts on Mastodon and now I learned of the Bennington Triangle which should not be confused with the Bermuda Triangle. What other spooky things are going on around us? Do others on Mastodon live in spooky areas??? There are exactly 115 days until Halloween which will be on a Saturday this year.🎃

#WTF A billionaire biohacker who wanted to live forever is seemingly questioning his life choices after being diagnosed with an 'uncurable' disease. Bryan Johnson whose viral stunts in pursuit of eternal life have included injecting himself with his son's blood plasma and tweeting details reports on his wife's vagina, recently revealed that he has developed autoimmune gastritis. It's an incurable chronic condition where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells in the stomach lining.