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emv [๐ŸฆŠ] @emv@vulpine.club

tired: pinging a server
wired: booping its snoot

Hoping to get more fokls over here on Mastodon rather than Twitter. Also hoping that windmill I'm tilting at stays put.

Welcome to everyone who's not on Slack this morning.

Hey @akpoff, are your slides for the amateur radio #BSDCan BoF available somewhere?

"system jamming" Show more

@craigmaloney

I caught the end of the talk online (dinner with the family took first place). I'll listen to the whole thing once it's up on youtube.com/c/MugOrgPage

I think I have the first draft of my slides for the Mastodon and the Federated Web presentation. Need to give it a day to rest so I can look at it fresh.

And then to present it on Tuesday at #mug.

Hope to see you there, either in person or online:

Learn more at mug.org

(And yes, this will be streamed)

Silly Show more

You: Intel architecture
Me: Actually, Intel is the manufacturer. You're thinking of Intel's monster.

mh, mild profanity Show more

If you're too poor for A/C, here's what I did when I was also too poor for A/C. Copper tubing attached to fan with zip ties. Plastic tubing attached to fishtank pump, submerged in beer cooler full of ice water. Cold water runs through the pipes and makes 'em frostycold, fan blows frostycold at hot people. Works pretty well! Lots of guides online on how to make one. Put a towel on the floor in front of it, lots of condensation.

Posted this last night, but it was very late, so reposting it now.

I've set up a small Mastodon instance for people interested in #amateurradio and related subjects. It is located at radiosocial.org/

Feel free to sign up and take a look around - I'm @ak over there and will move some of my radio-related posts there.

The new tuner stick advertises 20-100% increase in range. I'm routinely topping out at 50-60 nm, and if I can get to 100 nm that would be spectacular. I also have on order a purpose-built antenna, so that I can compare with my homemade one.

Experimenting with an antenna for 1090 Mhz (airplane spotting).

The current design is the cheapie telescoping antenna with a magnetic base. That's stuck to an old upside down speaker as a ground plane, and then from there I have a bunch of magnets attached to the outside of the rim with old nails as radials.

It looks completely goofy, but no soldering required, and I think I'm actually getting a little more range.

I have a better tuner stick on order!

Cleaning the garage of decades of crap that landed there. Blergh.