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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · 8d

Can you tell how many of them are patchable (i.e. not past end of support)?

N1DQ @pskreporter.info · 12d

In Carlisle, MA: 0.91" rain over the last 48 hours, and 0.13" the day before that. Why does the big rain always bypass us? Spotter #15-557

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · 15d

Or -- from #PSKReporter. I'm somewhat surprised by the FlightRadar display as it is showing some shadow in the north and the south at noon.

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Sep 3

Trying Google's Gemini image tool to colorize old pictures:
Starting with the black and white image, and then two different colorization attempts. It is notable that it omitted the person in one case, also the steam blowing downards in both. Original was probably shot on orthochromatic film.

Black and white image of the "Gladstone" engine from the LB&SCR

Colored image of the LB&SCR "Gladstone". Rails and sky not colored (don't know why)

Colored image of the LB&SCR "Gladstone" with the person removed. Sky and rails were colored as well.

N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Aug 14

I have that data for almost 10 years and never got around to parsing it! I did spot check some spammers who thought that my (apparently) open SMTP forwarder was a good way to send spam. Unfortunately (for them), the only place it went was into pcap files in S3!

N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Aug 9

It should be working now... The errors have dropped off. The chart is in EST. Many thanks to the @sentry.io team for the monitoring.

Graph of errors showing that they have dropped off.

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Aug 1

@wx1box.bsky.social In Carlisle, MA at 0730: 2.32" total rain. Temp 61℉. Not raining any more! #15-557

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Aug 1

@wx1box.bsky.social In Carlisle, MA at 2245: 1.80" rain. 60F. Still raining. #15-557

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Jul 31

@wx1box.bsky.social In Carlisle, MA at 1945: 1.36" rain in the gauge (and a dead wasp). Temp 61℉. Still raining hard. #15-557

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Jul 25

This isn't enough! I'd add 1000ft of direct burial Cat6 as well.

N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Jun 7

My daughter (maybe aged 5) thought that I *worked* at Home Depot because I spent so much time there!

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Jun 6

This shows the problem is not a new one: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

How children lost the right to roam in four generations

When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourit...

www.dailymail.co.uk

N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Jun 6

I'm actually pretty impressed -- I just installed a couple of Ubiquiti NanoStation 5AC units to connect the house to the barn. I was using a couple of their APs in a mesh, but it wouldn't stay connected once leaves appeared on the trees!

Now it appears that I get a stable 100Mbps connection!

N1DQ @pskreporter.info · May 27

When I was at Cisco, I actually had to dig out an old minspec machine from my personal junk pile to test on. Pentium-133 with some appropriately small amount of RAM. Machine was a Gateway 2000 system and was probably was 12 years old at the time!

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · May 25

Actually no -- the lever moves side to side to control temperature, and up/down to control volume.

The magic of google lens revealed that its actual name is "High Arc Single-Handle Waterfall Bathroom Faucet with Spotless Finish" (but I don't want to link to it).

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · May 25

I found this one today -- designed by a genius who wanted to keep the control handle clean so the water actually pours onto it. I guess this design is called 'Single Auto Cleaning Control Lever with Sink Surround Sprinkling Feature'.

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · May 24

I met one of these in Bangkok, and it took a fair amount of hand waving and dancing before I figured it out.

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · May 8

I'd be interested to know if each transmission is of a high enough quality that an LLM could extract the sender's callsign. It would be cool to feed that data automatically into #pskreporter...

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Apr 28

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Apr 25

It was fake. #pskreporter

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Apr 24

I had a really good Chicken Masala sandwich at www.eggmania.com in Massachusetts

Menu - Eggmania

Select items are available at select locations only*

www.eggmania.com

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Apr 2

Yeah -- I converted PSKReporter to use openlayers, but for another website I need high resolution aerial photos and I haven't found an economical way of doing that.

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Apr 1

That API key is stunningly expensive. On one of my websites it would cost me maybe $2,000 per month. Ridiculous.

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Apr 1

This museum (www.railwaymuseum.org.uk) is my favourite museum (with the Science Museum being a close second). This is the Stirling Single No 1 -- and there is now a very nice model in OO gauge (from Rapido) which I own.

You should spend the entire day here exploring these glorious machines.

Stirling Single No 1 at the National Railway Museum

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N1DQ @pskreporter.info · Mar 25

Some horrible internet connectivity problems right now. It appears that Comcast as lost some peering -- but I think it goes deeper than that. Paypal.com is not reachable from some places.

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