Bertrand aka Burt FG8OJ/AG8OJ • Amateur Radio 🇬🇵 🏝️ • 🛰️ HF and up • #amsat • 🌑 EME • Involved in @rcguadeloupe • https://xitter.cf/t.co/RHWKZvTddu & @GridMasterMap

Guadeloupe
Joined January 2013
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En France, on a inventé le Concorde. En 1969, il décollait et atteignait Mach 2 symbole de la grandeur gaullienne, conçu pour défier les Américains. En 1972, le TGV 001 battait le record mondial à turbine (318 km/h). En 1981, le TGV électrique reliait Paris à Lyon à 260 km/h. En 2007, il pulvérisait encore le record mondial sur rail : 574,8 km/h. Dans les années 70, le plan Messmer lançait le plus grand programme nucléaire civil de l’Histoire : 58 réacteurs, jusqu’à 70-80 % de notre électricité, une indépendance énergétique que le monde entier nous enviait. Dassault, Sud-Aviation, EDF, Framatome, la SNCF : nos ingénieurs étaient les meilleurs. On avait dix à vingt ans d’avance sur presque tout le monde. Puis 1981, Mitterrand. Nationalisations massives (banques, acier, chimie, électronique, aéronautique). Semaine de 39 heures. Lois Auroux. Charges sociales qui explosent. Syndicats tout-puissants. Fiscalité punitive. Droit du travail rigidifié. En moins de cinquante ans, le socialisme a transformé un pays d’ingénieurs conquérants en un pays de grèves, de délocalisations et de stagnation relative. L’industrie est passée d’environ 28 % du PIB à 11 %. Le Concorde a été abandonné. Notre nucléaire a été presque démantelé pendant des décennies faute de choix politique mortifère. Ce n’est pas le destin, c’est le prix d’une idéologie qui a préféré redistribuer et réglementer plutôt que construire et innover. A bon entendeur.
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Un beau passage au-dessus de la France !
Contact upcoming with Arkansas! University Heights School of Medical Arts in Jonesboro is scheduled to talk with Josh Kutryk on the ISS live via ham radio. Scheduled for Mon. Oct 5 at 15:27 UTC | 11:27 AM ET | 10:27 AM CDT via IK1SLD telebridge. Crew audio on 145.800 MHz FM
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Please, give me details of you have selected “other” 🙏🏼
What use for QO-100 in portable, what is the most compact solution (I have a computer).
62%ADALM-PLUTO
27%DXPatrol Full-duplex
12%Other solution?
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What use for QO-100 in portable, what is the most compact solution (I have a computer).
62%ADALM-PLUTO
27%DXPatrol Full-duplex
12%Other solution?
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🤖 Made with AI
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1/ For @flo_0_ 😉... I built a custom Icom CI-V to BLE bridge to connect my IC-9700 📻 to the new #OrbitDeck iOS app by @PRStoetzer for tracking satellites 🛰️. Here is how I made a compact wireless 🛜 interface using off-the-shelf hardware and some simple Arduino code 👇🧵
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OrbitDeck for iOS is now available on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad. apps.apple.com/us/app/orbitd… More information at orbitdeckios.n8hm.radio
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Examen radioamateur lors du salon hamexpo (le Mans, 3/10)
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Reel Credits: VK4CZ Mr. Scott Watson in Australia 🇦🇺 @grok @FG8OJ 2.4 GHz. Roughly one megahertz of the 13 cm band, painted over! This is not the switching-PSU hash from a few posts back. That noise lives in the shack. You find the brick, choke the lead, swap the supply — the floor drops. Wi-Fi does not work that way. 802.11 on 2400 MHz is always-on, adaptive and outside the building. You do not get to ask the neighbour to kill an access point so a DXer can hunt a new one on 13 cm. Even that request assumes the source is next door. Often it is not. Mesh nodes, office parks, apartment stacks, a router two streets over with a clear shot at the gridpack. Amateur radio is a guest on that spectrum. The primary users do not know we are there. Their duty cycle does not care about EME, a beacon, or a weak tropo opening. Ferrites will not fix this. A polite note will not fix this. The realistic hope is the next generation of radios — DSP with enough intelligence to map, notch, and cancel persistent OFDM occupancy — treating this as a design problem, not an afterthought. Until then, 13 cm remains a beautiful band with an ugly neighbour! ⚡️
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How to get busy at the evening with #hamradio. Tonight, receiverpath tuning of our diplexer. Shift : 1.6MHz Insertion loss : about 0.2dB TX rejection: about 80dB not too bad. next job: TX path tuning, will be very sporty cc @ref_info @F4IZC @F4EED @F4ASS @CarstenGrn1 @BoscoMac
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IT’S HERE!!! Live from Tokyo Ham Fair 2026 — meet the ALL-NEW ICOM IC-7110! A new chapter in amateur radio has arrived, and we’re excited to finally show you what we’ve been working on. #IC7110 #TokyoHamFair #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #NewProduct #Tokyo #madeinjapan
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🇧🇸 𝗕𝗔𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗧 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🟠 August 24 ▶️ DXCC : #Bahamas 🏝️ 🌐FL15 #IOTA NA-001 ▶️ AO-123 03h13 utc @Xe1ydkGil @wb0wqs25192 ⚠️ LoTW : 𝗖𝟲𝗔𝗨𝗕 @GridMasterMap #SatQrp #AMSATRovers #LEODXCC #DXpeditions #DX #C6AUB #SATPortable
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🇧🇸 𝗕𝗔𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗧 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🟠 August 20 ▶️ DXCC : #Bahamas 🏝️ 🌐FL15 #IOTA NA-001 ▶️ AO-123 02h16 utc #KD2WNY #WA3U #WO3U ⚠️ LoTW : 𝗖𝟲𝗔𝗨𝗕 @GridMasterMap @SatQrp #AMSATRovers #LEODXCC #DXpeditions #DX #C6AUB #Bahamas #SATPortable
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I really needed a CAT control for #amsat 😜🤣
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🛰 W8LR on RS-44 ⏰ 2026-08-04 from 13:51Z to 14:04Z 🗺 EN71 📻 145.940↑ SSB 📢 EU - stationary uplink 👀 hams.at/alerts/454d228a-f850…
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Et encore un contact avec @Soph_astro derrière le micro. Le passage est nettement plus favorable que celui de Lundi midi annoncé précédemment. A vos baofeng et autres quansheng pour une écoute sur 145,800 MHz FM. L'heure du graphique est en heure locale
Contact upcoming with Kenya! The Kenya Space Agency will host a contact with Sophie Adenot on the ISS live via ham radio. Scheduled Wed. 05-Aug at 11:38 UTC | 7:38 AM ET 2:38 PM EAT via ON4ISS telebridge in Belgium. Listen on 145.800 MHz FM.
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Only ISS and SO-50 as FM repeaters on #amsat? 🫣🤷🏻‍♂️
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