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Cake day: February 21st, 2024

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  • You know the pop culture reference we use for someone who has misplaced their cellphone, “have you tried calling it?”

    This will sound absolutely silly, but one day a friend was looking for some trinket which wasn’t a phone, and playfully I asked, “Have you tried calling it?”

    They doubled down and started actually calling it, “Trinket… trinket, where are you?”

    And wouldn’t you know it, within minutes they found it, and so far this has worked about 99.9% of the time.

    So like using a flashlight focuses your eyes, having someone call it out loud kind of quiets the mind, too. It’s wild.











  • Not quite packet radio, but there’s a huge community for FT8 (very very limited communications bandwidth), there’s also JS8Call, but it’s sort of slow right now (on 20m at least). You might be interested in SSTV; there are various bands of activity, some on 20m (14.230Mhz and 14.233Mhz) and certainly other bands as well. The advantage of SSTV is that the more popular platforms (MMSSTV, BlackCat SSTV, and fldigi) can take audio input from your sound card and convert it to the SSTV broadcast.

    Pair that up with any WebSDR and you can get nearly any broadcast within reach of your browser and the WebSDR in question.