Kevin M0KMU 🇬🇧 📻

Not what you expect to find when you come to work, happened over the weekend in the workshop next door. Its going to be a fun few weeks now

@riprap1 10m is up and down at the moment

11m is open to most of Europe and that means total summertime chaos… with every high pressure weather system.. in comes Germany… don’t mention the war

Finally getting a bit of me time to play #radio in the garden avoiding the sun 😃 #hamr

@Russia_X1 Hell yeah, I would love to go

If you received a free invitation to visit Russia, would you agree ?? ○ Yes ○ No

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@josiahjdp Well written, it kept me to the end

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@0x1shaun Im sure you can think of a couple of things 😃

500 ft of wire, whatever shall I do with this? 📡

@0x1shaun @aborgnino A big mistake and once its gone there's no getting it back

@aborgnino @M0KMU a terrible mistake 😔

The BBC have today confirmed the date its Long Wave 198 kHz service will close is Saturday June 27th 2026. It is broadcast from sites at Droitwich, Burghead and Westerglen. BBC Radio 4 news said the time of closure will be at 00:00 GMT/UTC (01:00 BST) on Saturday June 27th.

@AvonandsomerRob They are a great machine and easy to repair none of the computer crap you her today

It seems that a Henry knocks spots off anything else out there, according to todays Great Vacuum Debate. Dyson's are for the Audi-driving pseudo-middle class. Shark are bought by people who think Gold Blend coffee is posh. But you'll never see a tradesman cleaning up with either - they always have a Henry in the back of their van because they are indestructible..

In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI. Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots. Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach. Now the library has built its own intelligence. Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers. The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top. The pirates beat them to it. Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it. The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London. Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books. The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

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@ls_engineers Well done guys, keep up the good work

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You write a Google Doc. Google can read it. You write a Word document in Microsoft 365. Microsoft can read it. You write a page in Notion. Notion can read it. Every keystroke. Every comment. Every draft you thought you deleted. Their servers hold the keys. Their employees can be subpoenaed. Their AI can train on it. Their lawyers will hand it over if a court asks. Google Workspace Business Standard: $14 per user per month. $168 a year. Microsoft 365 Business Standard: $12.50 per user per month. $150 a year. Notion Plus: $10 per user per month. $120 a year. You pay them to read your work. Someone built a full office suite where the server cannot read your documents. Not even the people running it can read your documents. It is called CryptPad. Your password generates the encryption key in your browser. CryptPad never sees it. The server stores ciphertext only. Decryption happens on your device, with a key only you hold. If their servers were breached tomorrow, attackers would get encrypted noise. Nothing readable. → Documents → Spreadsheets → Presentations → Kanban boards → Whiteboards → Forms → Code editor with syntax highlighting → Diagrams → Real-time collaboration with shareable links → Self-destruct documents and view-once shares → No account required. Open a link. Start typing. Encrypted instantly. → Self-host on your own server, or use the free instance at cryptpad.fr Here is the wildest part: CryptPad has been doing this for 11 years. It launched in 2014. Built by XWiki, a French open-source software company founded in 2004. It survived the entire subscription era. The whole time Google was telling people "your data is private," CryptPad's documents were already mathematically private. The architecture is the product. Google Docs is a feature wrapped around Google reading your documents. Microsoft 365 is a feature wrapped around Microsoft reading your documents. Notion is a feature wrapped around Notion reading your documents. CryptPad is the feature without the surveillance. Same documents. Same sheets. Same slides. Same shareable links. Different planet. Google Workspace: $168 a year, every word readable. Microsoft 365: $150 a year, every word readable. Notion Plus: $120 a year, every word readable. CryptPad: $0. Every word encrypted before it leaves your device. Free instance hosted in France. Self-host if you want full control. 7,543 stars. 813 forks. 138 contributors. Battle-tested since 2014. Reviewed and endorsed by Privacy Guides. Built by XWiki, a French open-source company. AGPL-3.0 licensed. End-to-end encrypted. Free forever. Your documents. Your keys. No middleman. 100% Open Source.

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Ham Radio 24-7: "Not everyone becomes a Ham. Because not everyone thinks this way. Most people walk past a radio tower and never give it a second thought. They don’t wonder how it works. They don’t feel the pull. They don’t lie awake thinking about propagation, or what band is open, or whether that faint signal in the noise is someone calling CQ from the other side of the world. But you do. That’s not an accident. That’s who you ARE. Ham radio doesn’t recruit. It doesn’t advertise. It doesn’t beg for your attention. It just exists — quietly — waiting for the right kind of mind to discover it. The kind of mind that needs to understand, not just use. The kind that finds peace in the static and purpose in the signal. The kind that wants real connection — not followers, not likes — but a human voice, crossing thousands of miles on nothing but physics and a wire in the air. You studied. You tested. You earned your callsign. And the moment you made that first contact — you knew. You were always supposed to be here. The hobby didn’t find you by accident. Physics. Patience. Purpose. Connection. 73 " #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #HamLife #NotEveryoneBecomesAHam #HamRadio247 #W2RE #HamRadioCommunity #73s #RadioOperator #DXing #HamRadioOperator #Physics #Purpose #Connection #CQ #HamRadioFamily

Morse Code in 2026: More Than Just a Relic of the Past Is Morse code a "dead" language? Far from it. While it was removed as a mandatory requirement for amateur radio licenses in the early 2000s, its popularity is actually growing in 2026. In the world of amateur radio, Morse code is referred to as CW (Continuous Wave). It remains one of the most efficient and reliable ways to communicate, especially when conditions are at their worst. Why Morse Code Still Dominates the Airwaves: * Unmatched Efficiency: A CW signal occupies a incredibly narrow bandwidth of only about 100–150 Hz. Compare that to the 2.4 kHz required for a standard voice (SSB) signal. * The "5-Watt" Punch: Because the power is concentrated in such a tiny sliver of spectrum, a 5W CW signal can often "punch through" as effectively as a 100W voice signal. * A Biological Filter: The human brain is a powerful tool for decoding single tones even when they are buried deep in background noise—conditions where digital modes or voice would simply fail. * A Universal Language: CW uses a standardized set of abbreviations and "Q-codes," allowing operators who speak entirely different languages to have full, meaningful conversations. * Beyond the Radio: The Cognitive Edge Modern research and the growing memberships in groups like the Long Island CW Club and CW Academy highlight that learning "the code" is an excellent workout for the brain. It has been linked to improved memory, better multi-tasking skills, and sharpened critical thinking. Join the "Secret" Conversation Whether you’re interested in QRP (low power) field operations, chasing long-distance DX contacts, or just looking for a new mental challenge, Morse code is a skill that opens doors that modern technology sometimes closes. Ready to start your CW journey? Check out our full guide on the history and application of Morse code here: 🔗 electronics-notes.com/articles/ham_r… #HamRadio #MorseCode #CW #STEM #AmateurRadio #RadioEngineering #ElectronicsNotes #CWAcademy #TechTrends2026