@KF0UNK I somehow made two CW contacts but yeah, it was nice to chat with other people in the state on SSB. Don't usually see signals lined up like that on 40 and 80 here.

I did get on in the last two hours and made some people happy with a new county. I try to only call MN stations so they can get multipliers.

Sadly, I am still a bit sick and behind on chores, so we'll see if I get to this.

@KF0UNK nice!

@KF0UNK *flips over table* CW it is!

CW or packet though?

Oooh, I should do the Minnesota QSO party. That's where I am!

https://www.w0aa.org/mn-qso-party/ #hamRadio #MNQSOparty

Saturday is the Minnesota QSO Party and we need your help. Dave and I will be running a multi-transmitter station at US-4236 in Wabasha County for the event with special event callsign K0M. I’ll be on 20m phone and Dave 40m phone and CW. We want your contact! Exchange is Minnesota County or State/Province and FIRST NAME. Help us get to 1000 QSOs in this park in one day

@KF0UNK PSE QRS I AM NEW AT CW K
QTH IN UR PANTS
ANT 5000 FT EFHW
GO LOONS

That should start enough back and forth.

Minnesota Mesh Network

https://monitor.mspmesh.org

@Wolf these online maps don't always show all the nodes, especially if a group is running on a different channel.
@HopelessDemigod

@N9DRB @ifixcoinops had a recent thread on this you might appreciate.

@hollisb no, and it doesn't look constant. It's very cold here, I don't know if engine block heaters would cause stuff like this.

404 updated their article after I told them "HAM" doesn't need to be all caps: https://www.404media.co/ham-radio-operators-in-belarus-arrested-face-the-death-penalty/

(also, this is awful)

Love that this started over the weekend. 20m used to be clean for me! #hamRadio #qrm

Nothing new inside the house, but cold weather might have changed something outside.

🦝 Ah, but getting Home Assistant to talk to this plastic box is surely going to use some of the courage that I've been Steeling Myself Up with and Bracing Myself For for the past thirteen months, I bet it - okay no, I pressed a button and it went OKAY BOSS and just did the thing.

🦝 WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THIS BRACE

The Cardputer ADV board arrived today for portable ft8 work. It’s absolutely tiny at < 10cmx7cm. Looking forward to building mini-ft8 for this setup
https://github.com/wcheng95/Mini-FT8

Fixed the cable and the 70-cm J-pole seems to be OK! #hamRadio

@gedankenstuecke yes! I've come around to the realization that the addition of my dollar to a local shop is worth more than the subtraction of a dollar from a global shop.