W8TAU 📻 Mike 🏡 EN73

My mastodon account is now @w8tau@mastodon.radio I'm also on Bluesky: @w8tau.bsky.social

wspr.live/gui is super fun to poke at, btw

Trying various bands in the background with WSPR. On 30M right now.

@sophaskins Switching accounts.. The window during which I might try to give a demo is between 5p-6:30p ET (21:00 - 22:30 UTC)

Hey folks, even if you're not planning on using Mastodon instantly, you should take some time this week to create an account and set up your follows. Twitter is starting to charge for API access to the migration tools in 5 days, meaning the migration tools will probably break.

I'm on mastodon at @W8TAU@mhz.social

10m #FT8 is good today

@sophaskins @javierk4jh Same! 73!

@javierk4jh @sophaskins I heard you! But I don't think you can hear me...

@sophaskins @W8TAU I meant to say 30m (10 MHz). Sorry.

@sophaskins Even though we didn't quite complete a QSO yet, this is still really exciting to see. Radio is magic! 😁

@sophaskins I don't have VOACAP open right now, but I do think 40m is one of the other best theoretical bands for us, depending on time of day. We could try that sometime. Not sure how much work it is for you to switch bands.

@sophaskins I'm sure we will eventually! I may also just have a lot of local background noise with my setup here, too, but this is a really short bit of wire to receive on..

@sophaskins Calling at 1500, evens.

@sophaskins Yeah, I can try. I was just looking at your reception reports from 10-15 minutes ago, you were definitely being heard _around_ me, but not _by_ me. :-|

@sophaskins I've got a bit of QRM around offset 1115, but otherwise it doesn't look like anyone else is here.