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And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November rememberef
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Ed W8EMV 
@w8emv@mastodon.radio
mastodon 4.7.3Ed Vielmetti W8EMV in Ann Arbor, MI EN82dg
Amateur Radio Extra (2025), ARRL VE
ARROW Ann Arbor MI, PIO #W8RP
University of Michigan ARC #W8UM ,
Thunder Bay ARC Alpena MI #TBARC
ex KD8OQG.
Photo: UMARC shack, 4th Floor EECS at UMich.
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CHU the Canadian time signal station is shutting down. "As of June 22, 2026, the shortwave radio broadcast of the NRC's official time signal will no longer be available."
The time is short to get your reception report in for a QSL card.
Send in a reception report for CHU 3330 (Canadian time signal) in the hopes of getting one last QSL card from them before Canada shuts down time services on shortwave.
Does anybody know what time it is?
My home lab now has a couple of bits of what would otherwise be e-waste running web servers. There is a Pi 1 running Wireguard to connect to 44net, and an Android 10 phone with Tailscale and termux. nginx is the web server in both cases.
Missing Hamvention this year, alas.
For a good reason though - a family friend is celebrating his 90th birthday (!) and I'll be there for that.
Now playing, an archival copy of the Voice of America's "Music Time in Africa" featuring King Sunny Ade from April 13, 1980
https://mtia.labs.si.umich.edu/broadcast/1980-04-13/
Many good years of listening here
https://mtia.labs.si.umich.edu
For background on this collection see
https://swling.com/blog/2020/12/the-music-time-in-africa-archive-at-the-university-of-michigan/
Starting to invite elected officials to save the date for this year's 2026 Field Day in June.
Usually I'd wait to do Field Day organizing work until after Hamvention, but since I'm missing it this year I'll fill in with early work.
If you invite electeds for Field Day, how many invites do you send, and who shows up? I know you just need one to get the points but it *is* an open house so the more the merrier.
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@bud_t
just checked in to #FFWN, I think / I hope, using "pat" and telnet on a Raspberry Pi 400 that's set up on my local Tailscale net
I did buy an APRS K-1 cable that should in theory let me connect to a local 2 meter node but either I'm holding the cable wrong or it's misbehaving because it didn't work out of the box. so it went back into the box as "future project but not current project". I'll revisit that on the equinox or the solstice.
First pitch at 741p
Listening to Blue Jays - Twins
on 50000 watt CJCL "Sportsnet 590 The Fan" 590 Khz
via KiwiSDR VE3JSJ, Hamilton ONT
Is it still DX'ing if you use a KiwiSDR? (Sure it is) The local SE Michigan KiwiSDR, "misdr" or "Pembelton Farms", picked up 5000 watt WKZO 590 kHz Kalamazoo instead.
It's always entertaining to listen to the Blue Jays, you can tell in an instant as soon as there's a out ("oot").
I have a couple of CM4 Pi 4 compute modules that are spare from a project and that never have been used.
Is there a list somewhere of fun budget-priced radio projects that can make use of such things? In particular I could imagine building an Allstar node around this component.
My DMR radio hears just fine, but the best explanation for the high bit error rate on transmit Is some kind of frequency drift.
I'm running OpenGD77 on an RD-5R, with an #OpenSpot4 as the hotspot.
I can see two, maybe three ways forward.
1. On the RD-5R, "Freq Adjust" from the calibration screen.
2. On the OpenSpot4, "Autocal" as described by https://manuals.sharkrf.com/openspot4/en/autocal-connector.html
3. Why not both?
Of the two Autocal looks easiest, and it will get me the best diagnosis out of the box.
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@ety@hive.institute
The #homelab is the first tag I'd tune into, all sorts of people doing things with old gear that does double duty as space heaters in the winter.
I have seen old telco gear repurposed as part of amateur radio voice-over-IP trunks, I would think that a search for a tag specific to the hardware you are using or interested in would work.
@loriemerson@post.lurk.org any ideas? I'm not aware of any instance specifically devoted to either pursuit.
#homelab #othernetworks #hamradio
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@ke8smq @ai6yr
I got an email notice to renew that got filed away.
On the magazine front, I subscribed to The Spectrum Monitor (online, PDF) which is a closer match to my radio listening habits. "The Spectrum Monitor Writers’ Group consists of former columnists, editors and writers for Monitoring Times and Popular Communications."
https://www.thespectrummonitor.com
Tuning through the AM dial tonight in Michigan and found an odd musical loop announcing that 1110 AM had moved to 107.9 FM. Turns it it's WBT-AM in Charlotte NC making the move to WBT-FM.
Story at Radio Insight: https://radioinsight.com/headlines/325307/1110-wbt-to-drop-current-programming-with-move-to-107-9/
No idea what will happen to the 1110 frequency - it can't make sense to run a redirect loop indefinitely, can it?
