Working WFD CW today.
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Working WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, but I'm trying to do WFD not a contest.
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Working WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, but I'm trying to do WFD not a contest.
Yay, I worked @kb6nu
Even though I'm doing this from home, I decided to operate QRP, so I have the rig turned down to a measly 5W. Operating QRP is an exercise in patience to get through, but I'm now to the point that most of the calls I copy get a big red DUPE in not1mm. I got two on 40m, which was two more than I was expecting. I won't have a map handy until I load from not1mm into wavelog, but so far south Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Quebec, and Ontario bound the stations I've worked so far.
Almost everything has been on 20m but a few 40m QSOs.
One more hour.
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Yay, I worked @kb6nu
Even though I'm doing this from home, I decided to operate QRP, so I have the rig turned down to a measly 5W. Operating QRP is an exercise in patience to get through, but I'm now to the point that most of the calls I copy get a big red DUPE in not1mm. I got two on 40m, which was two more than I was expecting. I won't have a map handy until I load from not1mm into wavelog, but so far south Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Quebec, and Ontario bound the stations I've worked so far.
Almost everything has been on 20m but a few 40m QSOs.
One more hour.
@mcdanlj Hey! My pleasure, Michael. 😀
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Yay, I worked @kb6nu
Even though I'm doing this from home, I decided to operate QRP, so I have the rig turned down to a measly 5W. Operating QRP is an exercise in patience to get through, but I'm now to the point that most of the calls I copy get a big red DUPE in not1mm. I got two on 40m, which was two more than I was expecting. I won't have a map handy until I load from not1mm into wavelog, but so far south Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Quebec, and Ontario bound the stations I've worked so far.
Almost everything has been on 20m but a few 40m QSOs.
One more hour.
40m came alive in the last hour, as we started to get close to evening, and as 20m was frankly played out.
I was going to plug my rig into battery, but then saw in the rules that your computer has to be on battery power as well, and I didn't have a way to plug my shack computer into battery, so I didn't bother running the rig off battery.
Then when I went to submit my log, I saw that actually your logging computer can be mains powered, so the rules must have been about the computer you are using for digital modes. Which I wasn't. I did all CW, no multi-mode multipliers for me!
So I could have gotten another multiplier for my 2-point CW QSOs for my solar-charged battery, as well as the 4x QRP multiplier. I could have had 510 points instead of 408 points. Which doesn't matter at all because I'm not actually in any form of contention for anything; I worked only about five hours thanks to all the winter storm prep. And even if I'd worked the whole time I still wouldn't be competitive. I only hunted, I didn't run.
And running only 5W, I didn't even make the antenna wire warm enough to melt the ice that was covering it.
Maybe next year I'll run instead of hunting. But probably still QRP, and maybe actually in the field...
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@caosorganizzato sto ridendo come un coglione immaginando uno che lava la biancheria nella friggitrice ad aria, ma ho il sospetto che non sia quella la battuta, è un semplice non sequitur?
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How do you lose an election, and why is Democracy failing in America?" If it is not progressive, it will be conservative. "
I have been saying this for years because I understand that the voting mentality, wants, and needs of the population have changed. To spell it out: if you're a wishy-washy moderate, you're unelectable — only people who focus on politics instead of people believe otherwise.
The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is one of those wishy-washy moderates — or, as I call them, corporate conservative Democrats. This is the man, for example, who wants to add age verification in every OS (operating system), including Linux. That is not the only problem with him, but it is the most recent one I can recall. The point is, he is not a progressive, and he is not going to win reelection.
Many people don't vote anymore. I do, I assume you do, and perhaps many people on the Fediverse do — but many don't. My sister and her husband, for example, don’t. I sometimes question the value of doing so if the end result is the same. Yes, I said the same — and we can argue about the differences, because there are differences — but at the end of the day, we still end up in the same place we don’t want to go. The only difference is whether we get there fast or slow.
MAGA is simply awful — there is no denying that — but they are giving their supporters exactly what they want. Meanwhile, you have a wishy-washy moderate who will work with these people while claiming unity is more important than change or accountability. So ultimately, we go down that same path by different means, and that’s the path we want to avoid.
People argue that we have to block that awful outcome — but block what? We're still going there. These people will compromise with Nazi pedophiles and tell us it is for the good of the country. And so many people no longer feel enthusiastic or motivated to support any of this.
And we know “next time” is a lie that never comes. It’s what they told my grandpa his whole life, and he passed away at 103 years old waiting for that make-believe “next time.” My parents are in their 70s and late 60s, I’m in my 40s, most people's kids are in their 20s, and the next generation to come is being told the same lie. We’ve all caught on by now.
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If it is not progressive, it will be conservative. I guarantee it.
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@existentialcomics late bronze age kids collectively shudder
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@existentialcomics
I had that thought.
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It feels like now would be a really bad time for the Sea Peoples to make a comeback.
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@georgetakei ugh, no
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@angel thank you! Coffee - done. Walk - done. Tiramisu - no, but lasagne 🙂
Have a great Sunday, too!
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Happy Sunday, Stefano. Enjoy some coffee, a walk under the sun a maybe a bit of tiramisu.
