Amateur radio (M0VFC) and broadcast radio (@cambridge105); Security Lead @redgate to keep me busy during the day. 🏳️🌈/He/him 🐘: https://xitter.cf/t.co/qtoiajB92e
Cambridge, UK
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After a week+ of SOTA (various pics over at mastodon.radio/@m0vfc/), tomorrow it's @rsgbiota time!
I'm hoping to be active on 20/30/40m CW from Rathlin Island, EU-122.
Only on foot, so I'm afraid QRP, but should be on air somewhere around 1000 to 1400 UTC as MI0VFC
#hamr
I'm off for a few weeks of radio adventures, starting in North Wales...
Most updates will be over on Mastodon: mastodon.radio/@m0vfc
#hamr
Still watching to see what happens on this platform, but my callsign (M0VFC) on the Radio instance of The Other Place is me.
(If the policy changes, I'll post actual link)
As verification, this phrase is posted earlier from that account than here:
neither-needle-noise-upon
Made it nearly three years before my luck ran out! 🤦♂️
ALT Negative, followed by positive, COVID lateral flow tests
The National Hamfest has a new home for 2023 - but hoping to still be there with @g3pye for the special event station!
Today's fun has been gluing together @OctopusEnergy, Solcast, and my solar/battery inverter APIs.
It simulates the likely import/export costs when charging and discharging from the grid at different times, and tries to find an optimum plan.
Just in time for tomorrow evening!
I need to refine the model of my own usage - it currently assumes 5kWh evenly spread across the day, but I've not captured the historical data to improve that yet.
Thanks to @Mi0VAX for the heads up that I could talk to the inverter over TCP, and saved me the RS485 bother!
It was great to be back at the Hamfest this year after a gap.
I didn't have much time to get inside, but we had lots of conversations around the GB22NH station. Those who left saying "maybe I'll try that when I get home" were the best!
Looking forward to next year 🙂
My QO-100 station didn't quite behave itself - thankfully @dnas2 bought his, which was actually used on air - but accidentally became an interesting talking point in its half-disassembled state, and we could compare and contrast the two approaches for folks new to the sat.
First contact on the QO-100 satellite from home!
Lots of work still to do on the mechanical side, and frequency stability is a little more "artisan" than ideal.
But I made some RFs, and they went into the sky and came back down!
Thanks TF3VP :-)
Really looking forward to the return of the National Hamfest in a couple of weeks time!
The @g3pye crew will be there running GB22NH on HF through (hopefully) QO-100 - hope to catch you on air or in person! #hamr
Updated floor plan for this years National Hamfest, lots to see, great show bargains from the traders, outside flea market for some pre loved gear, bring and buy..
Chance for a social meet with many..tickets available online.. nationalhamfest.org.uk/our-s…
Here's something not seen for a while: negative electricity prices!
Batteries set to charge, A/C set to heat...
It'll be my first grid-imported electricity since the start of March: solar + batteries have covered all my home electricity use for the last 7 months.
Beautiful morning supporting the Bourn to Run 10km race with Cambridgeshire @RAYNET_UK
Apparently @OVHcloud's network firewall *by design* doesn't apply to traffic coming from other OVH-hosted servers.
A firewall that can be bypassed by their 1.5 million other customers almost feels more dangerous than not offering a firewall at all - a false sense of security.
Robert Chipperfield retweeted
Worked on all summits by G4JNN, M0VCM, G6SXR and G6AEK. If we meet at the convention, beer (or alternative beverage) will be supplied for your persistence. Thanks to all who worked us, very much appreciated :)
