Ham radio and such things. Late of x-twitter. Out of practice VE. QTH DM14sc I'm curating 4 bsky ham radio feeds these days & one for the Morongo Basin (Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, 29 Palms, etc); please see https://bit.ly/4bDVT5G for details.https://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mjph5ca7pk23Meeting tomorrow (Saturday) of the Morongo Basin Amateur Radio Club, 2pm. Visitors welcome. Join us at the Yucca Mesa Community Center. #YuccaValley #Landers #29Palms #JoshuaTree #MorongoValley #HamRadio #AmateurRadio https://maps.app.goo.gl/LYAWqYSM76p4qBuh817 Apr 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjph5ca7pk23https://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3miep5hc4m22l[1/2] If the internet is to be believed, the masses of bugs I've been seeing around my neighborhood in Yucca Valley are crane flies. #YuccaValley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3miep5hc4m22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mi2sy3j6n22iJust found a really useful firefox extension. Forces youtube "shorts" crap to play in a normal youtube window, with all controls like FF and rewind. What a relief! Now if it only had a way to force the videos to be landscape instead of sucky keyhole. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-block/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-block/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search27 Mar 2026 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2sy3j6n22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mhyahicp222uI can't hear a thing here in the Mojave desert, but I’m picking up what is probably the Iranian jammer using a web SDR in Italy on 7910kHz. Something is underneath it, might be the numbers. Will try again at 02:00 UTC. #Shortwave #Iran [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyahicp222uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mhwby3shy22iFYI those in Yucca Valley who have the sewer project coming your way. Hi-Desert Water District promised that door hangers would warn residents when access to their property is about to be blocked. Twice now they have impeded access to my driveway & there have been NO door hangers. 1/x #YuccaValley25 Mar 2026 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhwby3shy22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mhvsfbcyxs23I dunno what's up but there just a hell of a lot of flying bugs this spring in Yucca Valley. More than I've seen in 14 years anyway. #YuccaValley25 Mar 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvsfbcyxs23https://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mhi7maq2wk2s#ShortwaveRadio [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2026 09:34 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhi7maq2wk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mh6wwyio7227Problem solved. Turn off battery optimization on APRSdroid app. Derp. #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #APRS [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Mar 2026 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6wwyio7227https://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mgs6v3v5wk2pThe feeds I curate for Amateur Radio and the Morongo Basin are all hosted on SkyFeed. So for any interested in the topic, here is what's evolving with the feed situation. There may be some changes coming. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgs6v3v5wk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mg6heshqbs2kMy trouble with #APRSdroid seems to be with the way it is accessing the phone's GPS. Yesterday I ran a track using Organic Maps which tracked perfectly. Halfway thru the hike I started APRSdroid. While Organic Maps is running, APRSdroid tracks perfectly as well. #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #APRS [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6heshqbs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mg3lbhb7q22sReplaced my 8 year old android phone finally. Here are #APRSdroid tracks of the same hike path, before and after. I figured there would be more points with the new phone thanks to better cell coverage, and there was. But what the hell happened to the GPS? #HamRadio #APRS02 Mar 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3lbhb7q22shttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mfugzwute22z"Hams radios", you say? Clearly I got into the wrong hobby. #HamRadio [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfugzwute22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mf4li5kwg22cHuh? #HamRadio18 Feb 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf4li5kwg22chttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3metqs3uac22uI'm considering filtering out posts on my ham radio feeds that link to AI sites. Looking for feedback. My reasons; unreliable results, from tech built on stolen work, foisted upon us by some of the worst people on the planet motivated by their own greed. Please reply with your opinion either way.14 Feb 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3metqs3uac22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mereeq53nc24"Amateur radio: Jean-Christophe Lebon achieves three world records" I think they buried the lede. They should be talking about how he levitates a hand held microphone in midair in front of his face. #HamRadio #AIslop [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mereeq53nc24https://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mepmglzup22bOh, and there's yet ANOTHER open source #hamclock in progress. It sounds like this one aims to look exactly like the doomed hamclock, but at the moment it's not quite ready yet. https://github.com/BrianWilkinsFL/open-hamclock-backend #HamRadio #AmateurRadio [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2026 03:57 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mepmglzup22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mec2fanljc2n[1/x] My ham radio boat anchor rigs needing too much work, I thought I would get in on this weekend's AM Rally (amrally.com) on my Yaesu FTDX5000. Turns out; not happening. I put it on a dummy load and scope to look at the AM mod for the 1st time... #AmateurRadio [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Feb 2026 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mec2fanljc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3me42k2izjk26The AM Rally coming up this weekend got me thinking about dragging out my 100 watt Gonset G-76 transceiver. It hasn't been on the air since the early '70s & I need to come up with a power supply, so that isn't happening this time around. [1/x] amrally.com #HamRadio #AmateurRadio05 Feb 2026 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3me42k2izjk26https://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mdo4lqzs2c2rYes at first glance I'd say that's not nearly as LOUD as HamClock is. 🙂 Like it or not, nice that it's available. I wonder if I can get it to run on my little Inovato Quadra when HamClock bites the dust. #OpenHamClock #HamRadio [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdo4lqzs2c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mdnu5pyrzs2lThis is terrible news. I had always assumed that #HamClock was aggregating stuff from various sources in the local software. I didn't know it was apparently all dependent on one cloud server. I suppose there's no hope of it getting open-sourced now. #HamRadio Amateur radio #HamClock [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnu5pyrzs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mdnrygoezc2l"Half loop" antenna? Alternate name: Half-resistor antenna. What an extraordinarily bad idea. "Multi-band'? Of course it is. HALF OF IT IS A RESISTOR. Why not just use a dummy load and it will be all-band. #HamRadio #AmateurRadio30 Jan 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnrygoezc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mdh653qrzs2sAdded a few more photos (drone) to the thread of last weekend's ham radio Winter Field Day excursion. #AmateurRadio #WinterFieldDay https://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mdh5sxa7fc2s [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2026 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdh653qrzs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3mddwssly422iBack yesterday from Winter Field Day in the Mojave Trails National Monument on Old Patton Road. Myself and Clifford KK6QMS. Operated 1M ORG, ended with 505 contacts (but might have to throw a couple out). [Thread] #WinterFieldDay #HamRadio #AmateurRadio26 Jan 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mddwssly422ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ad6g.bsky.social/post/3md4i2un3lc26Off to winter field day! 44 miles or so east of 29Palms. #HamRadio23 Jan 2026 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:idvcqvmtfxtfovkehlppsg6v/app.bsky.feed.post/3md4i2un3lc26