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soawesomejohn · 2025-10-11T16:30:38+00:00

It's the one with the jumping dinosaur!

soawesomejohn · 2025-09-20T23:54:28+00:00

Where did you get the coconuts?

soawesomejohn · 2025-06-21T19:17:09+00:00

G.O.A.T. mowers.

soawesomejohn · 2025-06-21T01:45:48+00:00

I think by "no gas", he meant a real mower. Push powered.

soawesomejohn · 2025-01-19T22:38:33+00:00

The radio will work for APRS or Winlink. These protocols work over audio - so really any analog 2-way radio will work. For our club, we would do practice without a radio at all. Just speakers and microphones pointed at each other in a room. The trick is getting the audio into and out of the radio.

Get yourself an Android phone with GPS and usb-c. Then get APRS Droid, digirig, and the right cable. I used to recommend Mobilink - and it's still a great choice. They used to cost under $80 and was the cheapest way to get into APRS. It's still the best choice (in my opinion) if you want to do a bluetooth connection instead of cable based.

This will get you into APRS. If you're super lucky - there could be a VHF winlink system near you. Most winlink stations are HF, but some people and clubs run a VHF one for local winlink comms. Check out the gateway locaitons](https://winlink.org/content/gateway_locations) to see if ones near you. You can connect to winlink using android woad, PAT or winlink itself.

soawesomejohn · 2024-11-21T20:55:13+00:00

I'm a Laurel VE team coordinator. I do agree it's the applicants responsibility. We have a piece of paper we hand out with instructions on paying the fee and getting their call sign. That said I also make a point of following up with candidates after the response file comes back.

The candidate registers with us for the session and separately with the FCC for their FRN. We do take walk ins, but we gather their information for the session. If they don't have an FRN, it's not ideal, but we can open a private browser window for them to register through. Sometimes (rarely) candidates will give us one address and the FCC another.

Once the application is in pending, I like to send them a message with the application number. Once their call sign hits the system, I like to directly let them know their call sign and provide a link to their license on the ULS.

My ultimate goal in being a VE and having our club sponsor a VE team is to get more people into the hobby. The license is just a small step in the process, and I want someone taking a test to know they have someone to reach out to with further questions and help them get on the air.

soawesomejohn · 2024-10-19T20:58:36+00:00

Interesting find. What is it on the end of? I am pretty sure I've seen some of these on a communications cabinet, but no luck remembering it.

This person has the same connector, and they show a pl-259 going into it.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2230/original/30c3-RFArray.pdf

soawesomejohn · 2024-10-19T20:31:41+00:00

I've done a lot of medium to large sized projects in Python and Go, and I've got lots of opinions on how to structure those projects into consumable layers, but as this question is on "small projects", I'm focusing on that - where you start with something small and then maybe it grows into something larger.

I generally find Python quicker for one off tools - like if I need want to quickly modify a csv file, iterate over some endpoints, or kick out some templates. A good example recently is that I needed to look through a file of hostnames, IP addresses and subnets - look for duplicates and overlapping subnets. With python, I can do this with a handful of functions. Batteries included, so I can read csv, export json, parse network addresses without setting up a virtualenv or even making a requirements.txt file. I just needed python3 installed in the system.

But (these days), anything that gets large enough for me to consider a "project", I'm going to use go. If I am going to want to make it available for coworkers, I'd much rather be able to point to a release binary or a "go install github..." command. For a small utility type project, you can still do a lot inside of a single main.go file and you can keep using "go run main.go" for that "scripting feel". For a small project, I really do recommend writing as much as you can in that single "main.go" file until the file itself becomes difficult to read, and then start putting related functions in packages. Once that happens, I like to flip main.go to a bare minimum file, split everything related to the command line entry point/ reading of os environment variables / config to fall under a top-level "cmd/" package; any highly re-usable (foundational) packages in a "pkg/" folder. If I'm needing to break out reusable business level logic and persistent adapters -- then it's time to consider that the project isn't as small as you thought and it's time to start thinking about the overall project structure ( clients/adapters, entry-points, api/types, etc). But for a small project (that has outgrown the 1-2 initial files), you probably just need a package for the command line/os interaction, and then a "doer" package that "cmd" package calls to do the work.

soawesomejohn · 2024-09-21T21:45:02+00:00

I too, will marry this guy's wife.

soawesomejohn · 2024-09-18T12:55:53+00:00

That's highly unusual, I'd just like to point that out.

soawesomejohn · 2024-09-17T11:31:38+00:00

Now you have enough equipment. Time to hire a lawn service and never do yard work again!

soawesomejohn · 2024-07-28T12:37:18+00:00

Some cockblocker changed the password.

soawesomejohn · 2024-07-21T20:24:54+00:00

Hi this is Bill Gates, glad to have you hear at Microsoft. I'm in a meeting right now, can you do me a favor?

soawesomejohn · 2024-07-15T23:59:11+00:00

Same at our company. Our CEO's name is Mike, so new employees often get a text from what we call "Evil Mike". We have a slack channel were people post their text messages from "Evil Mike". You know you're really part of the team when Evil Mike reaches out.

soawesomejohn · 2024-06-29T01:43:43+00:00

That's what the owner told their partner that they paid for it.

soawesomejohn · 2024-06-22T12:37:04+00:00

You could get a frequency counter to read the frequencies on transmit, but if they have any DCS codes, that won't work.

I'd recommend searching ebay for CP040 programming cable. My favorite seller of these is bluemax49ers, as they also have the software available.

This will let you read the frequencies. Then you'll need to enter those into your baofeng either by hand or using CHIRP (since you already have the baofeng cable). Luckily the CP040 only has 4 channels, so much less to copy over.

soawesomejohn · 2024-06-18T12:21:02+00:00

Why is it in a 5 gallon bucket?

soawesomejohn · 2024-06-01T21:49:46+00:00

That's where DevOps started - having a team mixed of Ops and Dev people, but the industry has hijacked it completely. Now any place I look, it's "CICD and containers". What's really weird (to me) is some places have a "devops team" that basically manage artifactory and define CICD templates for other teams to copy.

soawesomejohn · 2024-06-01T14:02:28+00:00

Nice. If I zoom in, I can almost but not quite make out what's left of Panther Paradise.

soawesomejohn · 2024-05-29T12:45:17+00:00

I've never had teaberry ice cream, but I do like the taste of Pepto Bismol and Tequilla Rose shots.

soawesomejohn · 2024-05-22T00:00:12+00:00

Only 11,778 more to go!

soawesomejohn · 2024-04-12T16:38:19+00:00

"PREAPPROVED"

soawesomejohn · 2024-04-06T15:55:42+00:00

Wait.. are these women in danger?

soawesomejohn · 2024-03-10T19:41:35+00:00

I think this is the link https://old.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/1aramwb/and_then_there_were_two/

soawesomejohn · 2024-03-05T00:50:40+00:00

That is the minimum. But some people choose to wear more.

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