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A.A.Ron
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Alaskan. Electrical enginerd. Hunter, fisherman, gardener. Ham radio operator.

Sure it does, the guy that installed it is responsible for fixing it, for the rest of his life.

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What if I walked away from this npub and just started a new one? I could probably figure out how to clone all the important stuff over.

I doubt my followers (both of you) would mind that much, and I'm no infloonzer, so my clone would likely just be me.

One feature of nostr that has bugged me for a while is the inability to delete notes. I'm used to deleting most of my history on other platforms, quite intentionally. Sure, a relay might eventually remove your note, but another may not - so you have no way to know if your history is out there still, or no.

I value being able to forget. Being able to re-create. I've had to be way more careful to stay mostly anon here than on normie social media. It feels limiting, rather than freeing.

I may be free of being cancelled or shadow banned, but I am very much not free of the real world consequences of anything I say, at any point in the future, whenever my past may be examined against criteria I wouldn't be able to even imagine in the present.

What if, in 5 years, my wife learns how to use nostr and looks back at this npub's history and decides it was somehow disrespectful to her?

What if it wasn't my wife, but my government? Or the government of the nation I am trying to enter? Or a police or legal action?

Winding myself up a bit. Not sure how this plays out. I'll put it like this - If this npub stops posting, it likely won't be because I am gone. I'll still be around, just respawned under a new clean npub.

My social graph doesn't feel that built up anyway. Does it serve me? Or do I serve it?

If your two npubs got into heated arguments with each other, it may provide you with some degree of plausible deniability.

These interceptions are somewhat routine, so I'd assume they'd run transponders at least until they got a ways out from Anchorage. It's a very busy airspace. We'll see, I guess.

My radio project for today was to get an ADS-B receiver working on my phone to track planes. It was easy.

I installed a 1090Mhz antenna from NooElec onto a RTL-SDR Blog dongle, plugged it into my android phone with a USB A to C cable, and installed 2 apps: RTL-STR BLOG driver (free) and ADS-B Radar ($2). It required minimal configuration.

Now I am up and running, recieving position reports from aircraft up to 30 miles away. I will mainly use this when I am in the bush, waiting for an air taxi. I also will keep an eye on it during wildfire season so I know where air tankers are operating. I want to find out if I can receive military aircraft transponders as well. That might require a 978 Mhz antenna. It would be interesting to catch a flight of F-22's on their way to intercect Russki bombers in the ADIZ next time.

#SDR #ADS-B #Radio #SituationalAwareness

Today is my pickup truck's 8th birthday, so I went down to DMV and got my permanent registration sticker. Huzzah!

Facebook is trash, but the amount of local commerce facilitated marketplace is amazing. You can get tools, guns, local produce, plant starts, poultry, livestock, car parts, tires, firewood, somebody to pull you out of the ditch, stuff unavailable in any of the stores in my small town, you name it. It's a technological miracle, that also spies on you.

Wow. Thanks. It's amazing that I happened upon this information on the day my weedwacker died. That looks like just the tool for cutting down cow parsnip without getting burned by its sap.

Sorry, my programming skills are limited to PLC ladder logic and java applets.

That is an intelligent observation! Thank you for sharing your insights. Have a wonderful day.

Name brand beans, that's pretty fancy. Great Value is $2/lb at Walmart.

Good thing the tire went flat. If you drove around with only 2 lug nuts, the wheel would probably fall off. It sucks when that happens, trust me, I know.