Rev Mook @rev_mook@lsngl.us

What's this mode I'm hearing on 80M right now?

https://youtu.be/ye7etDoWX40

This was an uncomfortable climb. #sota #amateurradio

Part one in questions I'm too afraid to ask. If a .deb is signed with gpg, does that make the whole file encrypted, or just prove it's from a trusted source/ match a specific hash...?

After a year of talking about it, I finally spent 10 minutes to run a network cable up to the roof and connect a 5GHz radio. This will eventually be on a large mesh network in my region that runs over #amateurradio frequencies. #aredn

Interesting way to ground a small commercial tower.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7035823

9:1 unun mounted on a PL-259 connector for tomorrow's Winter Field Day. Fancy pants silver plated teflon wire wound around a T106-2 toroid core. With 500 ohms on the input, I get about 80 on the output at 14ish MHz. SWR is higher than expected, dropping as frequency increases. I'm going to toss this in a tree with ~40' of wire . The internal tuner in the radio should take care of the rest.

#amateurradio

Hiking pal ebun on a foggy summit. Worked 70cm FM only from up here. W6/CT-269 #sota

VHF/ UHF @alrs

Tiny sailboats; high tide gunkhole.

okay, last photo of the QCX mini in it's case. This was a fun build.

It's alive. #amateurradio

Finished the kit build last night, trickiest thing was winding the input transformer and the filter chokes.

My dad used to wrap Apple 2 parts with aluminum foil in the 80's. I kinda forgot about that until I pulled this chip out of the QCX kit.

After being stuck in customs for a week, I finally took delivery of a 40m QCX kit. Greenie for size reference. #amateurradio

Boring. #railcart