View across Loch Linnhe from Fort William.

Car with a mag mount orbital CB antenna on top.

Screenshot of WSJT-X operating on the 10m ham band

Screenshot of PSK reporter showing how far the signal is getting out.

Went out for an hour with the radio. Took half of it to troubleshoot WSJT-X only to realise that the steam deck was 9 seconds out of sync!!

Managed a FT8 contact before having to head off.

View across Loch Linnhe.

Antenna being blown about in the wind.

Steam deck running js8 call on a picnic bench hooked up to FT 818 radio with a view across the loch.

A better go on the radio this afternoon. Couple of ft8 contacts and my first QSO on js8 call.

Wind was bitterly cold so I only lasted about an hour and a half before packing it all up with frozen hands!

Great, thanks very much

Would you be able to share the link to the one you bought? Always a bit weary of buying stuff off that site 😅

Morning radio operations on yaesu ft-818 looking out onto a scenic mountain view.

Steam deck running WSJT-X hooked up to the radio.

Steam deck hooked up to the radio which features a new battery pack powering it, allowing full power transmission.

PSK reporter map showing afternoon signal being heard from the Eastern side of North America and well into Europe.

Got a mag mount CB antenna, for the mount rather than the antenna. Ok-ish swr on ft8 this morning but no bites.

Afternoon was better. New battery hooked up and got contact on 20m on full power.

Digirig is still flakey though, slight cable disturbance and it momentarily disconnects the radio...

Welcome to my world. Shouting into the void, or so it feels like 🤣

DIY morse code transceiver with 3D printed key hooked up to a bench power supply. Yaesu radio with dummy load in the background on a very messy desk.

Spent my Saturday night soldering together one of these wee 49er CW kits. Figured it would only take an hour, 4 hours ago.

On the plus side it appears to work, and I didn't miscount toroid windings😅

Have been contemplating a (tr)usdx kit, so working up to it.

Thank you for the link, that looks alright for £20!

Apparently not... Took a voltmeter to it and was getting voltage out. Guess the connection had just come loose. Time to go back to bed.

Rechargeable battery pack used in the yaesu ft 818 radio. Alas it's dead. It's an ex battery pack. It has ceased to be.

Also has anyone got a decent recommendation for a replacement battery system for the yaesu ft818? Mine has finally died. One of those days I guess! #hamradio #ft818

Yaesu ft 818 radio next to a heltastic V3 meshtastic radio

Laptop running WSJT-X

Setting winter sun through trees. Radio operating might have a bust but at least the view was good.

First time out with the radio in a while. Drove all the way out, got the rig set up but for some reason the laptop kept losing cat control....

Figured I'd try some voice contacts instead but I left the mic at home! 🤦

At least the view was nice and the temperature was above 4°C

Well done!!! I've had a busy week and have fallen behind 😅 maybe next year I'll keep up

Even still though, it's impressive

I spent 3 hours just trying random brute forcing and stepping though output but was missing the pattern 🤣

Man, part 2 of #adventofcode today was just a no go. Had to look at Reddit for inspiration.

How the hell do people solve it in less than half an hour?!

D-YIKES-tra, right? #adventofcode

p2 was fine once I re-read it a few times

Screenshot of wordpress.org login screen demanding you check the option "Pineapple is delicious on pizza" to log in. Absolute mad lads.

Great, I now can't log into wordpress dot org because I fundamentally disagree with this atrocious culinary choice.

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We were blessed by @was.tl for the 10th (!!) year in a row with another awesome #AdventOfCode edition 😊 - and it's the 7th year I run the unofficial/community AoC Survey!

Here's a reminder to fill it out before it closes (~Dec 22nd) 😉

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Then this is for you to listen to while you wait on it starting up in the morning: youtu.be/yup8gIXxWDU?...

Is a pretty cool band name in and of itself to be fair.

Called it WarehouseSimulator2024 and I'm not going to lie, I would play such a thing, if it existed.

Screenshot of advent of code recursive box shunting edge case that can shunt itself into right into the sea. Robot is moving down in this example and boxes that shouldn't move are moving. This was because I used recursion. I shouldn't use recursion without adult supervision. [editors note: I cheated my way out of it and saved the state before moving and reset back after]

I essentially wrote a teeny game engine for today's #adventofcode which was all good. All except this one recursive edge case that took me longer than I want to admit to track down.

Usual story though,
- test input: "all good",
- real input: "nah bro, don't think so, eh"

A colourful ASCII art Christmas tree shown in the terminal as the output of today's advent of code puzzle.

Trimmed the final frame and made it look nice

Managed to get caught up with #adventofcode - ngl, had a quick look at reddit to see exactly what the hell to look for in part 2 today. And then the solution was, of course, regex 🤣

Same! for both yesterday and today I was trying to double guess what was coming and was wrong both times! 🤣

Do you just have this running in the background all the time or do you use an app/site to know when meteor scatter is likely?

Getting absolutely tangled up my edge cases on today's #adventofcode

Started too late in the day, will need to revisit after a nights sleep 😂

Screenshot of part1, finally exhausting the allocated memory

Goodbye, old friend

Picture of activity monitor of a single process, the advent of code solution, running for 7 hours

So I guess that just bumping the number for my inefficient solution to part 1 of today's #adventofcode is _not_ a valid solution for part 2....

Tempted just to leave it running though...

In today's round of #adventofcode I inadvertently solved part 2 while trying to do part 1 🤦‍♂️😅