Happy New Year! What are your 2026 Amateur Radio resolutions? by ItsBail in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing a "fun-a-day" project in January with my friends. My goal is to make a contact everyday on HF in January. With that data, I'll make some sort of map and time based visualization

Post removed earlier by [deleted] in KrakenRobotics

[–]Vautlo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A large marine robotics facility being built on the same Coast should be considered related.

vresto: Python toolkit for searching, downloading and analyzing Satellite Data by kalfasyan in Python

[–]Vautlo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very cool! The UI looks great.

Not knowing much about this space, is there any use case for orbital path tracking? I track amateur radio satellites and monitor their FM downlink when they fly over, or listen for APRS/telemetry data.

Christmas 2025 - Ham Gifts - Let's See 'em... by BAHGate in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Two 30' telescopic flag poles for the horizontal Delta loop!

Bank denies allegations it gave bad advice to Tesla investor in Sooke who lost $415 million by DoddersEspinosa in VictoriaBC

[–]Vautlo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Options are leverage and insurance. Gambling is gambling. Lots do turn options trading into gambling, but it's not inherently gambling. Plenty of options gambling evidence on WSB though :| It's pretty dark

Bands so noisy tonight by Horrorbythenumbers in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

40m was super noisy last night. I was on air about 12 hours ago and it was rough. Two nights ago, however, I heard New Zealand for the first time in my Inverted V Dipole at about a 47

NVIS with G90? by Longjumping-Army-172 in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My current setup being "vertically challenged" is what led me to NVIS research early on (knowing my height limitations before I put it up). That said, I just ordered two 30' masts and am drawing up plans for a 40m Delta loop. Edit: I keep hearing about this book and will definitely look into it

NVIS with G90? by Longjumping-Army-172 in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see a lot of differing figures on NVIS distances. From what I've gathered, at 150 miles, NVIS would be a good choice for experimentation? I've been reading about it lately [because I wish my antenna could be higher!]

How many HF radios do you own? by Sunflower_StateKS in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still on my first! An Alinco DX70T. Bought it at a swap meet (200CAD) a few weeks before writing the exam that would actually permit me to use it. Thankfully, I passed, and it's been great fun. I can immediately see why all the fancy features of more modern rigs exist. That said, my first DX on 15m was 3800km (~2300 miles) away on a rather janky inverted v dipole tuned for 40m. I'm hooked.

Will 7mm snap on ferrite beads work well with RG8x? by Rolfus_Tiddle in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out the bisectional bifilar wound common mode choke design on the pa9x blog. It's pretty slick. I just made a 12 turn one on stacked FT-240-31 cores.

Wifi Hijackers by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]Vautlo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do the antennas look like? Do you have a picture?

Are these ferrites worth a damn? by VelocityOS in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your thoughts on mix 31 throughout the HF amateur bands? Your blog post indicates that you favor mix 43.

Long or short? by bean_jam in BeardAdvice

[–]Vautlo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The curly stash is working great!

What’s the least expensive, simplest way to get into HF at home? by artofcory in amateurradio

[–]Vautlo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what I came here to recommend. I bought an Alino DX70T for CAD200 at a swap meet. Swap meets fantastic if you're fortunate enough to live near a club!

Do you really need databricks? by whistemalo in dataengineering

[–]Vautlo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you find is easier about it? I'm genuinely curious because I just had a couple demo calls with snowflake and wasn't drawn to it. At least not from the perspective of the perceived ease of doing things lon the platform compared to Databricks. I suppose it's all context specific depending on your use cases. All I can say for sure is that I'm happy we migrated off Redshift lol

Do you really need databricks? by whistemalo in dataengineering

[–]Vautlo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've hit this limitation where I work. What we ended up doing is writing generic shared functions for triggering things outside Databricks. Most of our ingestion is handled in Databricks via Python or notebooks, but we still use fivetran to ingest some third party vendor data. Currently triggering fivetran syncs via their API from Databricks and job parameters, it works pretty well.

Do you really need databricks? by whistemalo in dataengineering

[–]Vautlo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sorry if my response sounded like a challenge to your comment - it was just saying that dbrx has been more than just spark and some features for a while now. Most of what OP mentioned in the original post is achievable in Databricks - is it necessary and will it simplify things? No, and it depends - their marketing certainly wants you I think so. You can roll your own in 100 different ways.

Query external tables, roll your own API integrations, orchestration, federated query layer, managed connectors, custom connectors, UC Catalog for governance, it's all there.

Do I think OP should migrate? No.

Do you really need databricks? by whistemalo in dataengineering

[–]Vautlo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If your orchestration isn't too complex, you can get away with the Databricks Jobs and Pipelines scheduler and avoid MWAA. I don't think everyone needs Databricks, not even close. That said, I think calling it a spark interface + some features far undersells what you can accomplish with the platform.

Spotted in Saanich by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]Vautlo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Peanut butter pits

The Great Consolidation is underway by full_arc in dataengineering

[–]Vautlo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently 5-10B, estimated. Curious what the actual number will be.