I’m really digging the channel “The Trip” on @somafm this morning.

Two barn fires one after the other tonight, and not far apart. Feels suspicious to me. Will have to keep an eye on the local news the next few days.

Every one of our hens laid an egg today. Good job girls!

EDIT: The launch is delayed until next week because, of course it is! 😁🎈📡

The Villanova University CubeSat Club will be launching our high altitude weather balloon next week from Mendel Field on campus.

It has several experimental amateur radio payloads based on my CubeSat Simulator design. Tracking links:

https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a%2FW3YP-11&timerange=3600&tail=3600

https://amateur.sondehub.org/#!mt=Mapnik&mz=8&qm=12h&mc=40.27533,-74.92126&q=W3YP

https://maps.findmespot.com/s/JCSP#history/assets

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #RadioSonde #CubeSatSim #HAB

I might be a weirdo, but I actually liked getting the paper QST when I was an ARRL member - it was literally the thing I missed most when I stoped renewing my membership. For me, the fact that it’s now digital only is a relief, because the one thing I missed, isn’t available😀

Set up cloudlog- will give this a go for a while. Had been using CQRlog but I felt like it would break every time I had to do any significant update my shack computer - running my logging stuff on a separate device acting as a server seemed like it might be more flexible anyway😀

#HamRadio

This time of year is fun - the fields are getting plowed, so if you poke around you can find some interesting stuff that has been turned up. This year the kids have found mostly some chunks of quartz and limestone that caught their eye, but 8yo found a piece of stoneware pottery (probably from the bottom of a crock or jug based on its shape.). Last year the 5yo found an arrowhead that was likely 2,700 - 3,700 years old based on its shape/material/where we found it.

Well. I now know that at least 9 eggs fit in the pocket of these pants…I feel like I could prob squeeze in a full dozen.

I’m at a point with several of my projects where I have to wait till payday to refill hobby coffers, so if I get chance to sit down in the shack tonight, I might actually call CQ instead of working on stuff😜

Here my church’s live stream this morning, in case anyone want a sample of what the UU’s in Lancaster are up to😀

https://www.youtube.com/live/NY-16MU9BZE

Talked to a bunch of Boy Scouts on the HT from my front garden while weeding today. There was a bunch of them down by the river - sounded like a park-day type thing where they were doing a bunch of different stuff. They called on a local UHF repeater, so I answered and made short contacts with 8-10 of them.

I’ve got some beef with the Boy Scouts organization, but I can’t hold that against the kids who sounded like they were having a good time.