I know you're jealous of my fancy, variable speed, fume extractor.

#HamRadio
#DIY

Narwhal Amateur Radio Society Monthly Net in 1 Hour! (03:00utc) Allstar 61672, Echolink 994842, Pride Radio Network (prideradionetwork.weebly.com/network--repeater-info.html) https://nars.narwhal.be/nets
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#Narwhal #AmateurRadio Society Net tonight* in just a few hours!

https://nars.narwhal.be/nets/#nars-club-net

*7pm PST, 10pm EST, other times in other time-zones, I've had a long day, and totally not going to do the math right to get yours. -kc2ihx

We had an argument in our house today, which we ended up looking up, because I thought cow was a specific subset of cattle, but others in the house thought it was more generic, so answer first before you look it up:

We went and poked around a bit at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management area yesterday afternoon. The snow geese are passing through so it's a busy time there.

Of course I managed to spot the radio gear (used for tracking wildlife) in their museum😀

I think I should get one of those go-pro things and make a video channel that is just me doing my few minutes of morning chores with the chickens every day.

I'm just slightly colorblind. Not enough to really matter day to day, but enough that it makes my brain hurt trying to figure out the bands on resistors.

I'm "get the ohm-meter" colorblind, not "is the traffic light green" colorblind

Guess which new skill I'm planning to learn. Wrong answers only.

Hello Mastodon! Check out our inaugural newsletter to see a little more what we're about...

Not sure if those goes under #WorkbenxhWednesday or #Shackturday but seeing as it's Sunday, I guess it doesn't matter. Time is relative right?

Anyway, started slapping together a hutch to go over the top of the small workbench iny shack, to make better use of the space.

And yes, my garage workbench is pretty messy at the moment 😀

Much to my surprise, I've had the urge to return to a hobby I haven't done in a long time! My latest #NextChapter #Retirement blog post: https://nextchapter.machlis.com/posts/2026-02-22-returning-to-an-old-hobby-in-retirement/

(Hint: #HamRadio #AmateurRadio 😀 )

One of my audio-PC interfaces (a presonus audio box) will only work with one specific USB cable. I need like an extra 12" and using any of my longer (but still within USB spec) USB cables, including a brand new one straight from the package, just won't work. I can't decide if it's bad cables, the audio box, or my USB ports on the computer. Due to some other odd USB behavior I think there may be an issue with the USB ports on my PC. What's an easy way to test that?