For What its worth
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25 years ago …
We spent our honeymoon in the Sheboygan area. I’d just started a new job and couldn’t take much time. We came to Sheboygan, ate Italian food, and went to Kohler to see the Great Wall of Porcelain. We’re back. On the lake. We’re going to eat Italian food and visit the Great Wall of Porcelain!…
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It’s smokey in Madison
We have an Air Quality Index of 284 this morning in Madison. High numbers and Purple is not good. I’ll not be going for my brisk walk today. #Canadian #Wildfires
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Help My Yaesu FTM-400 Stopped Beaconing APRS
The problem started a few months ago. My radio displays #APRS messages and reports, with directions and distances just fine but won’t beacon out my own information. I’ve monkeyed around with my settings enough so that I’m not sure what I’ve changed and how, if need be, to return to where I started. Until I…
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Managing Multiple Mastodon Profiles
I suppose I could have RTFM. I have a number of #Mastodon accounts on different servers for different purposes, and I have been getting quite creative signing in to each to read and update. Tonight I asked the question “how can I manage multiple #mastodon profiles in the client?” All my mobile devices are Android…
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Learning Flutter
So, I’m wrestling with learning #flutter, you know old dog new tricks. I’ve got an idea for an app that I want to be able to run in a variety of places and flutter is supposed to do that. So for the heck of it I decided to go to #chatgpt to see what kind…
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Posting to a Mastodon Instance From Opensimulator
So, Neal Stephenson appears to be fascinated with #VirtualReality. When I’ve read “Snowcrash” and now “Fall or Dodge in Hell,” I also get fascinated with it as well and install my own instance of #opensimulator. I’ve been playing with writing a script that when touching an object will prompt me to write a message that…
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Amateur Call Sign Information
While working on software I discovered a nice website that returns #hamradio call information in html, text, XML and json. I’ve been able to make a call in my software that consumes the json output to identify call signs that I don’t already know. Here are some examples of the different API Calls that can…
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Almost home
After a wonderful 10 days in Amsterdam and Cologne, we are in Minneapolis about an hour from home.
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Help! My Winlink Packet Session Froze Because My Port Was Wrong!
Recently, in the middle of a meeting/demo of Winlink, as we started to show the people in my organization how the Winlink Packet FM worked I started a session and found that since my port was incorrect in the setup Winlink froze and wouldn’t time out. Usually this happens after I’ve had a previous successful…
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Curosity Rover on Feb 8, 2023