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@mi0vax.bsky.social

Radio amateur since 2003 - Satellite operation, VHF DX, uWave. Retro computers, EIHL Ice hockey #WeAreGiants Kidney Donor & #loveparkrun

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Hey Simon, Hopefully just a minor thing, strained my left calf a couple of weeks ago, immediately stopped running and walked back which I believe helped speed the recovery up to just over a week. Great to hear you're helping out too!

26.04.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Todays events certainly point to market manipulation πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

09.04.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly! Musk has proven time & again he manipulates the markets for profit, even had a rap on the knuckles from the SEC for it, but guess what? The guys in the SEC now are all "yes men" So either it's manipulation or the RU asset (trump) is trying to kill the US economy on purpose.

05.04.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mrs. VAX had so many faulty Libre sensors she moved to Dexcom, they're a bit better but the biggest advantage is they're willing to listen to customer complaints. Had someone call her back to schedule a call with one of their technicians to get feedback on the issues. Abbot don't care.

30.03.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As Louis Rossmann says, it's time for the high seas when things get this bad!

25.03.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
⚠️ New bot activity to watch out for: Bots posing as Canadians aggressively yelling at random Americans who haven't posted anything anti-Canadian. It comes off as Canadians policing anyone who is American or is in America.

These accounts are designed to stir tension between the U.S. and Canada, manufacturing division to justify American support for an invasion of Canada. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Don't engage with hyper-zealous bots.

⚠️ New bot activity to watch out for: Bots posing as Canadians aggressively yelling at random Americans who haven't posted anything anti-Canadian. It comes off as Canadians policing anyone who is American or is in America. These accounts are designed to stir tension between the U.S. and Canada, manufacturing division to justify American support for an invasion of Canada. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Don't engage with hyper-zealous bots.

Apparently bots are stirring up resentment about Canadians on social media. Seems right out of the Russian playbook.

15.03.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps they thought it was time to up their game and get on the let’s use crap caps bandwagon after their chips got more reliable.

15.03.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Commodore didn’t really master fitting low quality cap’s until the Amiga πŸ™Š

15.03.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert: Command and Conquer: Red Alert Command and Conquer: Red Alert. Contribute to electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert development by creating an account on GitHub.

Can't believe it, EA have released source code for the Command & Conquer series of games - awesome, kudos to them for allowing these to be archived.
github.com/electronicar...

08.03.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haven't watched the vid, I got one very similar to these (from ML&S quite some time ago) and the SWR was horrendous over 30mhz. Purchase from somewhere that has a decent returns policy!

24.02.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm surprised you didn't try to get one in about flybacks πŸ˜‚

12.02.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would need more info to confirm, but there's an update that needs a larger size recovery partition - it could be that. KB5034441 it's a fairly easy fix but be careful if changing your partition table as you can end up not being able to boot if you do it wrong.

11.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
WiFi RETROMODEM V3 – TattlerSolutions

tempestfpga.com/retromodem/

08.02.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Fixing the broken DEC VT100 so I can game on it
YouTube video by Adrian's Digital Basement Fixing the broken DEC VT100 so I can game on it

In @adriansdigitalbasement.com latest ep he's showing his ESP32 based modem that uses wifi instead of phone to connect to telnet/ssh based BBS youtu.be/A3Ug302U5uc?...

08.02.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

YouTube channel

08.02.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How’s it coming on? Haven’t been doing much model stuff lately. Thoughts had been that as it was (at least at that time) fairly exclusive to Hornby that pricing would stay expensive

08.02.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

About to start building a WiFi adapter for c64 to use some telnet based BBS is yours also online? Have a modem but it’s a modern (relatively) USR 56k might have a 14.4k ISA one kicking around somewhere but nothing for the c64

08.02.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Do they need to descend that low to drop sonobuoys ?

03.02.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A neighbour and I have gotten to know each other quite well due to the DPD guy delivering our parcels to each others houses. Our addresses are very similar no excuse though.

31.01.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love this series, sat down a few nights ago with the intention of "I'll just watch 5 mins of this as i'm too busy" (Broken, Pt2) and before I knew it I'd watched it all. Not sure i'm keen on the Nikki/Jack thing though, takes away from it a bit.

31.01.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lets see more of this Jerry! and videos on it!

31.01.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No battery protection, just kill it. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

29.01.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just before the hurricane force storm blew through here I pulled out some UPS units (APC/Schneider and others) i'd fitted new batteries in about a year ago. I'd charged them up and left the units switched off. They were dead! 0.4v across the terminals meaning i've lost 8 batteries.

29.01.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very tempting! So many variants available. Do you know can the software be changed to make it a VNA?

29.01.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure what happened but we came back online tonight, a real nice surprise indeed. Really feel for the other 70,000 odd
still offline though

26.01.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Living in a third world country it seems. Power been off since Friday morning, not expected to be restored for ANOTHER EIGHT DAYS! We’ve known this storm was coming for ~10 days before it hit and it’s only NOW that plans are being put in place to bring in extra engineers from Europe?!

26.01.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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More retro computer shenanigans

20.01.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah the "upside down" +2! not my favourite by any means!

16.01.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure where he’s pulled those numbers from, local forecast says lows of -4c here not -10c thankfully!

09.01.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - hz12opensource/libresdr: Firmware with overclock support for LibreSDR (PlutoSDR clone with Zynq 7020), 27.5 MSPS sample rate over Gigabit Ethernet with libiio/PlutoSDR API Firmware with overclock support for LibreSDR (PlutoSDR clone with Zynq 7020), 27.5 MSPS sample rate over Gigabit Ethernet with libiio/PlutoSDR API - hz12opensource/libresdr

I think it's MMCX - also in case you're not aware, some interesting stuff on the Libre SDR can be seen here: github.com/hz12opensour...

06.01.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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