Well, you see, I have a different phone for every app.
Neither, they have DNS profiles which you can install to iOS and get ad blocking even on the cellular network. It would probably duplicate the effects of the app, though, so if you’ve got that then you should be set.
Some things still slip through, but on the whole it’s pretty good.
If you’ve don’t have more than a million requests per month, you can setup your own profile and enable additional block lists.
AdGuard has freely available iOS profiles which will handle 98% of ads and other bullshit.
Because I’m the only one that’s real and you’re all LLMs programmed to say that.
And it was hard-fought, read the story about what the creator of PGP went through: https://hiddenheroes.netguru.com/philip-zimmermann
Wild. Was that SSB or CW? From some time I spent in New Mexico a couple of years ago I managed to hit Malaysia on 100W SSB. I was floating!
Actually it was my search for Escape Velocity which led me to it!
Hear, hear. I’ve got the HF bug and deliver a specific feeling of joy when I QSO the farthest I can at a given power and antenna configuration.
Endless Sky if you’re down for a top-down space shooter mining grind.
Ahh damn, maybe it’s behind CloudFlare or something now.
Fell in love with the idea of 1KBWC and couldn’t even wait for the first game to start making some cards.
Apparently Bicycle makes blank playing cards, so I ordered a couple of decks, in addition to a bunch of sharpie markers.
This way we can shuffle them like a regular deck, and the form factor is compact.
That’s One Hot Card was a thermal sublimation ink transfer I whipped up.
I’m going to try and hop on 20m in my high-noise floor area (lots of EMI) and try to QSO on 10-12W.
I suppose I should practice Morse code, too.
How about you?
E: Fediverse PSA: Getting your (US) license has never been easier—there is no Morse code requirement! Just memorize the answers to the questions (perfectly legal) and take the test, I did all three of mine online, one of which was from a beach on a Pacific island during the pandemic!
I got it into my head that I would like to see a spherical depiction of my QSOs. Azimuthal and other representations weren't cutting it for me.
I managed to coax an LLM to output my ADIF into a KML so I could better visualize the reach of my QSOs, and I am quite stunned. 20m has almost complete global reach, as you'll see below. Admittedly, on CW it probably does. In these visualizations, the vast majority of contacts are on FT8 20m, but there are a few dozen SSB contacts as far as Indonesia. Usually I made these contacts well before sunrise.
This is a representation of my entire logbook, so any QSO not from the SW US are 10m.
Setup: IC-7300, barefoot, 15m mast, and a 20m twinlead j-pole. Having been temporarily based in a residential area, I had quite a high noise floor from various EMI sources, and could have probably done better with weak stations had my noise floor been lower.
Moving to the west:
More west, Australia prominently visible:
Antipodal view:
Looking toward the east, the west coast of Africa coming into view:
Africa; the lonely QSO east of Madagascar is Reunion Island, got this one on FT8:
You can see a sharp decline in activity about mid-screen.
About 1m 15s remaining:
45s after 1200Z:
Granted, this is the IARU Championship. But that's a lot of people on the radio.
20m at 1500Z.
Side note: for the last three days I’ve enjoyed nearly bottomless noise floors; been making SSB QSOs to Japan, Indonesia, and even Rarotonga. Then–today of all days–the AirBnB beside my house has turned on their aircon and it’s completely wiping out all but the strongest signals. My waterfall looks like college ruled notebook paper:
1830Z Update:
1900Z. This is wild.
There are stupid questions, yes.