Had the 991a. Great all around radio.
lots of projects today. working on my ruggedized ham radio go box. Just painted the stencil of my call sign. Got the Yaesu 991A mounted and the power supply in. Have the Anderson power pole distribution block in. About to mount a USB power distribution block as well. Probably will install a raspberry pi, a t-beam LoRa device. Now to find a decent priced UHF/VHF dual bander to add.
#hamradio #radio #preparedness #emergencypreparedness #prepping
another pepper harvest. arent the little Piri Piri cute? purple death and carolina reapers going into the smoker to dehydrate
#gardening #urbanfarming #hotpeppers #peppers
I long holded on the zap icon on a note. That will then popup the zap setup. I then use Alby by clicking on the alby icon and then login to link alby to my phone. Easiest way to do it. I also changed the zap levels to what I wanted.
I am usingalbyy. Will see if I can screenshot what I did
I have an above phone since march. I primarily use amethyst because of features. Primal is better for posting pictures. Free from is most like twitter.
I haven't been paddling in a while because I have been surfing most days and it shows. I can feel how much out of shape I am compared to when I am paddling or rucking in the winter. I have to get prone paddling into my schedule more. Every time I am out on this board, I have a fulfilling, but very strenuous time. The extra exertion and the peacefulness of nature on the Pamlico Sound allowed for contemplation on the significance of today's date in history.
I totally forgot about the launch this morning. I was fiddling with my weather station and looked up. I wish I had my fancy camera. But this crappy cellphone video will have to do. Was quite spectacular and a pretty exciting manned mission.
#spacex #launch #spacetravel #astronomy
https://video.nostr.build/a8b72bd0b6b9249c29f67e65bba5bf6af55b9aad556972f281a64bc23074b30b.mp4
our power company is a cooperative. So, they arent too worried about low pricing things. We paid about $175 (included installation). They had to run a new ground line, but the power company guys were probably here max of 30 minutes (only 10 minutes downtime. The UPS's didnt even have time to start warning us 😉 )
Having a total house surge suppressor installed. We only had a 10 minute outage of power durring the installation, but time enough for me to play with my new project. a solar-based battery bank and inverter. Our network and computers are all on UPS. So all I had to do is plug the UPS into the inverter of the battery bank and ZAP. We had plenty of power.
#prepping #emergencypreparedness #preparedness #solar
People keep saying that ham radio is dead. I say no! For hours, we have had no "mainstream" communications (landline, cellular, internet, and 911 service). Between ham radio to communicate to people outside of the affected area as well as using Starlink, we have no outage in our house.
#hamradio #radio #emergencypreparedness #prepping
We lost one of the disturbances in the Atlantic. Nothing over 20% chance over the next 7 days. Looks like the one in the NW area of the Gulf is going to continue bringing lots of rain to Gulf Coast of TX though.
#weather #hurricane #tropicalstorms
What do you do when a neighbor drops off a couple of dozen blue crabs fresh off his boat? You break out the steamer, some beer, and seasoning. That's what you do.
#coastalliving #hatterasisland #capehatteras #outerbans #obx #seafood
My opinion on the TeleGram shit.
Pavel Durov either made a deal to get out of jail or if he didn't, soon Apple and Google will in some way sanction the app.
If it is the first option you will never know until you know and when you know it will be too late.
One reason I am building new community for TSPC on nostr:npub1tm99pgz2lth724jeld6gzz6zv48zy6xp4n9xu5uqrwvx9km54qaqkkxn72
would be nice if they made it available on F-Droid and not require Google Play Services. Not going to install it on my Graphene OS device.
I use a Garmin Instinct Tactical. It has a stealth mode so that you can have bluetooth turned off. but, if you want to use the benefits of the app, you will have security issues if you are worried about that. The watch is great though.
I have this same problem with solar controlled nodes. Once the voltage drops low enough, even if the battery gets recharged, the node wont restart. Big problem with many of the nodes out there.
Every year, I worry I won't get enough peppers. I grow all from seeds saved from previous years. I even had to give away 20+ plants this year because germination was so good. This is my 3rd harvest of over 2.5lbs and there are still hundreds of unripe peppers that if the tree rats and storms stay at bay, I am sure I will get at least 2 more harvests.
#gardening #hotpeppers #chili #ghostchili #ghostpeppers
It is actually worse than this since high schools have been lowering standards like Washington state dropping reading and math requirements for graduation, making it easier than ever to graduate. But graduation rates are down. Things are way worse than they were.
This is on our shelf that my wife got when she left the house. Copyright 1969. Even has plenty of index cards throughout.
