🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

I have hit some new level of hell.

I find tedious "moneky coding" unbearable and have been putting off a self-imposed refactor for a while because it had so much work involved and really hard to automate.

I finally gave in and started doing it but instead of doing the refactor directly im writing a whole new program that parses the code and rewrites it for me.. an annoyingly complex task, but still more enjoyable than doing the refactor by hand.

I forgot about the Red Dawn movie (and anti-communism movie from the 80's).. Watching it again today for the first time in well over a decade... I have to say i was at least a bit inspired by mastodon communists posts lol.

Wow, using my old transmitter without a waterfall display is painful to say the least.. I feel like I entered the dark ages again.

Since it will be a few weeks at least before I get my transmitter fixed I really need to figure out a way to use my SDR to get a waterfall display again, or something....

You can see some serious scorching on the coax connector from the lightening strike...

Ya know how some of the less intelligent people on social media keep griping about how the death toll of COVID-19 is no worse than a normal flu... well next time show them this graph.

#covid19 #covid #coronavirus

Woot my HF antenna is once again live. Sadly my main hf rig still need ofrepair but i was able to pull out an older rig. I am now transmitting at full 1500watts again! Lightening 0 Jeff 1

#hamradio #radio #electronics #ee

As a SCUBA diver I can confirm this is an accurate depiction of how we go fishing.

Be safe out there everyone.

Since I've gotten back to Philly I have eaten a bagel almost every morning. I forgot just how good the Jewish-american bagels are. I cant even call a european bagel a bagel, its just bread with a hole in it!

The six polymorphs of chocolate

#science #chemistry #food #cooking

So did some more investigating the damage at my AM Shack here... At a minimum my unun connected to my antenna is fried, as well as my TS-990 transmitter, also fried. I ordered a new unun and will have that installed next week.

Luckily all my VHF/UHF band equipment is fully operational though! So at least I will be on the air locally.

#Ham #HamRadio #AmaetureRadio #RF #Radio

So I can pretty much confirm and guaranteed the damage I'm seeing is from a lightening strike. Despite the damage my lightening arrester did its job. It is showing an open circuit now. I took it apart and can even see scorch marks from the lightning strike on the antenna side of it.

So apparently while Iw as gone for a year, like a dumbass, I forgot to physically disconnect my HF antenna. I had lightening strike at one point and friend several pieces of equipment in my EE lab.. I'm slowly trying to figure out what is and is not broken... but my 10,000$ transmitter is going to need some repair for sure.. Not too happy about any of this.

Go biden ::unenthusiastically::

#uspol

Its amazing that for all the talk from the DNC supporters about Trumps "poor" response to COVID his approval rating has went UP, not down and his approval rating for handling covid is 60% (a majority of people think he is handling it well).

As much as I hoped, begged, and pleaded with the democrats to get a decent candidate past the primaries so we could have someone better than Trump in office, they failed at that.

I'm sad to say at this point the DNc has done everything in their power to guarantee Trump wins the next election. The election is already over :(

https://news.gallup.com/poll/298313/president-trump-job-approval-rating.aspx

#uspol #election #election2020

I installed an older-style spinning metal 4TB drive as my backup drive on my system... I missed the sound it makes, so comforting.

So just switched from my manual backup script which i used on btrfs to using btrbk instead.. I must say this tool so far is great! I tried snapper and it was very disappointing, not sure why it seemed to be so popular.