BenDoubleU
@BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio
Normal user account for @w0odl@lemmy.radio
Mastodon: @w0odl@mastodon.hams.social
- Submitted 14 hours ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Support Your Parks - POTA Event This Weekend 4 days ago:
Supposed to be freezing and rainy here. Not sure I’ll make it out to a park, but I’ll try my best to hunt for y’all!
- Submitted 4 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 3 comments
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 1 week ago:
Yes, you must pass the general exam before taking the amateur extra exam.
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 19 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Ha sorry. Forgot mentioning the account from another service would create a post here. But still happy to see y’all!
- Comment on Holiday SSTV Experiment from the International Space Station 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had sats on my list of things to learn for a while. Maybe 2025 will be the year I get that yagi built.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on Lemmy Radio Matrix Chat 1 month ago:
nope. fixed!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I just like to imagine that they were testing that down votes work still 😅
- Comment on (complete) lemmy.radio upgrading from 0.19.3 to 0.19.6 2 months ago:
I’ll have to check if pictrs added some gif upload attributes to their settings. I think I remember seeing an option. I’ll try fixing this today!
- Comment on (complete) lemmy.radio upgrading from 0.19.3 to 0.19.6 2 months ago:
Oddly enough, I think that’s supposed to not be set to anything. The way lemmy does language replies and filtering is kinda odd. If you set that to English, I think only people who have just English set can see or reply. Shrug
- Comment on (complete) lemmy.radio upgrading from 0.19.3 to 0.19.6 2 months ago:
Testing image uploading with new picture update
- Comment on Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do? 2 months ago:
Nice! I did the exact same thing. Remote exam in my bathroom. Congrats on the tech and general. If you plan on the extra, do it before you forget anything from the general because there’s a lot of carry over from the test.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Once the dead rat and blood wall were cleaned up, the stream really went down hill
- Comment on How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era 3 months ago:
It’s both. SK, Stop Keying, is used in CW (morse) whenever a station is done transmitting. SK is also Silent Key, but you’ll rarely hear the abbreviation over voice or CW.
- Submitted 3 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 8 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
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- Comment on The ARRL elections this year are a sham 3 months ago:
Could be that ARRL was down then. All links work for me.
- Comment on The ARRL elections this year are a sham 3 months ago:
Yea in a community you only see the community info. The “official” sidebar is only on the main feed
- Comment on The ARRL elections this year are a sham 3 months ago:
What do you see and what link are you using?
- Comment on The ARRL elections this year are a sham 3 months ago:
The general sidebar has some links for how to get into amateur radio.
Not a lemmy dev so I’m not the go to on issues. I had that issue on Firefox though.
- Comment on The ARRL elections this year are a sham 3 months ago:
I feel like every year since I’ve been licensed and an ARRL member, I’ve become less enthused by the ARRL. To the point where this may be my last year as a member.
Also a thought: I use a few ARRL links in our side bar I wouldn’t mind changing to non-ARRL links. Open to suggestions.
- Comment on (incomplete plus downtime) lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.5 4 months ago:
In total, it’s not something I’m having an issue paying. I’m not a fan of talking about my personal life, but I did get laid off about 6 months ago so it is an expense for me, but I think something is just around the corner. Moving to a new place soon and have a job lined up that should help.
BUT… since you asked, and I don’t have any plans to put up a KoFi or whatever to ask for donations, our instance currently:
- linode server: $144/month
- .radio TLD: $30/year
- email $10/month
So not too bad, not great either. After I’ve moved and things settle down, my goal is to try to migrate our photos to AWS and downgrade us to a server that’s back at ~$75.
I appreciate the ask, but we’re good for now! I enjoy running this instance and seeing everyone use it.
~w0odl
- Comment on ISO: Morse Code trainer 4 months ago:
I do enjoy my morserino-32. It was an educational experience to build and it has definitely helped my cw comprehension
- Submitted 4 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- Submitted 8 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
