W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73

New(ish) ham! (Tech: April ‘18, General: July ‘18, Extra: September ‘19). Interested in learning: All The Things! Mostly FT8 and FM sats🛰. he/him or they/them

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

My mastodon account is now
@[email protected]

I'm also on Bluesky:
@w8tau.bsky.social

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

https://t.co/g9o8n2NiTg is super fun to poke at, btw

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins Switching accounts..

The window during which I might try to give a demo is between 5p-6:30p ET (21:00 - 22:30 UTC)

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

Trying various bands in the background with WSPR. On 30M right now.

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Hey folks, even if you're not planning on using Mastodon instantly, you should take some time this week to create an account and set up your follows.

Twitter is starting to charge for API access to the migration tools in 5 days, meaning the migration tools will probably break.

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

I'm on mastodon at @[email protected]

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

I'm on mastodon at @[email protected]

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

10m #FT8 is good today

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins @javierk4jh Same! 73!

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@javierk4jh @sophaskins I heard you! But I don't think you can hear me...

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins Even though we didn't quite complete a QSO yet, this is still really exciting to see. Radio is magic! 😁

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins I don't have VOACAP open right now, but I do think 40m is one of the other best theoretical bands for us, depending on time of day. We could try that sometime. Not sure how much work it is for you to switch bands.

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins I'm sure we will eventually!
I may also just have a lot of local background noise with my setup here, too, but this is a really short bit of wire to receive on..

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins No, still not hearing you. 😢
Just judging my the telescopic antenna length I have right now... 30m is probably not the best band for the MFJ-1899T to receive and you know how silly my setup is, so it's probably a me problem.

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins Calling at 1500, evens.

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins Yeah, I can try. I was just looking at your reception reports from 10-15 minutes ago, you were definitely being heard _around_ me, but not _by_ me. :-|

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins Listening... nothing heard yet.

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins I've got a bit of QRM around offset 1115, but otherwise it doesn't look like anyone else is here.

[W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73 @W8TAU]

@sophaskins I have 10.143 as an alternative frequency already in my presets (from contests or something?)
Want to try there?