K0STK Now • 75%
As fas as the mainstream media (M5M) are concerned, ham radio doesn’t exist. All I’ve heard about are heroic efforts to distribute Starlink terminals.
As past FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, said in Ham Radio Now Emcomm Extra #8, when an incident occurs “they just want their email to work.”
K0STK Now • 50%
Now you'll have to find something else to complain about.
K0STK Now • 50%
Some people may prefer to assemble their node from parts rather then buying a completed appliance.
Why are you against that?
This appeared on Facebook regarding the IT situation over at the ARRL: This was reported by Chris NW6V Mike Ritz, W7VO, ARRL 2nd Vice President, was at the WVDXC club meeting last night, having just attended an ARRL board meeting to discuss the outage. Mike reported those meetings are a weekly event until the matter is resolved. Everything that was running on INTERNAL servers is down until further notice. That includes their VoIP phone system, their .org email addresses, and front ends for things like LOTW. Everything running on external servers - cloud servers etc. - including LOTW data, is believed unaffected. But, such data will not be available until the internal matters are resolved. Thus, "joe@arrl.org" doesn't work - because that was on their internal mail server. But "joe@arrl.net" does - because the relays didn't run internally. I checked, and NW6V@ARRL.NETworks. Efforts to restore the internal systems is proceeding full-time. No time-line can be given. The nature of the problem cannot be discussed. I believe Mike said - with air asterisks around his words - "We have been advised to say nothing." He responded similarly when asked if "the Feds" were investigating this. **READ MORE:** https://w2lj.blogspot.com/2024/05/interesting-speculation.html
K0STK Now • 100%
if your club sucks, contribute and make it better!
That's an idiotic, and more than a little bit insulting, kneejerk response.
You have no idea what I do for my club.
K0STK Now • 100%
Amateur Radio is a niche hobby full of niches; most of them require a radio. Here's one list of things you can do with/in Amateur Radio:
🔗 https://hamradiofornontechies.com/what-can-i-do-with-ham-radio/
Clubs are highly overrated. They are only beneficial if your interests in Amateur Radio coincide with a sizable segment of the club membership or with the club's purpose. In my case our club is `primarily a social outlet for disheveled old folks who are only interested in DXing and contests; not my cup of tea.
K0STK Now • 40%
None ... because I won't play in that cesspool.
K0STK Now • 100%
The APRSLink callsign reverted to WLNK-1 around February 3rd.
Edit: Found the approximate reversion date
K0STK Now • 100%
Forgot to mention that I was using APRSLink to check-in to the FediFridayWinlinkNet
On Thursday, January 18th, I discovered that the Winlink APRSLink callsign is now WLNK rather than WLNK-1. Here's how ... My APRSLink login attempt through WLNK-1 (over VHF) failed so I switched to APRSDroid (over TCP/IP) to rule out an iGate/digi issue. When I started APRSDroid I received a "message waiting" notice from WLNK instead of the expected WLNK-1. So I sent my APRS messages to WLNK and was able to login over both VHF and TCP/IP. This callsign change has **not** been mentioned at https://winlink.org/APRSLink
K0STK Now • 66%
seems awesome for recreational and emergency communication.
Can we please stop using "emergency communication" as a badge of worthiness?
K0STK Now • 100%
@ham_bitious please edit your post and fix the borken link!
K0STK Now • 100%
Do what ever "scratches your itch". The choices of random internet users aren't applicable to your situation.
In our area both "modes" are effectively dead. There are two packet nodes and no meaningful traffic. And APRS is full of position reports from repeater objects and DV hotspots; we don't use APRS for anything ... no messaging, no event support, etc.
It's all quite sadly pointless. The luddites in our club are not interested in anything more than working DX and oversharing on repeater nets.