I’ve hunted a lot of POTA (Parks on the Air) but this morning I tried my first activation and it went all right! It’s so much easier to hunt when you pretty much know the call and park before you even check in, but to have everybody coming at you is quite a challenge! Thanks so much to so many hams, especially @Kb9vbr and @qrper, that share their experiences online so that a newbie like me can start with some degree of confidence. #HamRadio
Spent an unforgettable evening with 92,002 friends watching Nebraska Volleyball in Memorial Stadium — the largest crowd to ever watch a womens’ sporting event. #huskers
@cpultz yeah, losing the “what’s everybody saying right now” aspect of Twitter has been hard, and without a login, that jackhole, Elon has even made it impossible to view posts. My best hope right now is that Threads becomes the place that a lot of that ends up and that Threads holds true to becoming federated through ActivityPub so that those on Mastodon can interact with it.
@JosephAndriano @clew@octodon.social @ai6yr Michael Lewis' "The Coming Storm” really opened my eyes to this. I've hated going to Accuweather ever since. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Coming-Storm-Audiobook/B07F43574T?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_B07F43574T_5&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=2KJRB1H5ZW1BP4YZP2M9&pageLoadId=GMcpwm3PNn5LANUo&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225
@mrwilson Some at the Weather Channel seem to agree:
"Abrams argues that numbers in the WBGT may not sound "ominous" enough with critical values "only" in the upper 80 to lower 90 degrees F range."
I think she's right, later in the article, that perhaps if they focused on the colors or levels rather than the actual value, it may be taken more seriously.
Our Lincoln, Nebraska mountain bike team has grown every year. It's a wonderful community of middle and high school athletes and their families that I'm lucky to be a part of. We've been practicing all summer and get to start racing this weekend — when it may be over 100ºF 🥵
The first day of school is always a fun one and we have a lot of fun at Lincoln Public Schools celebrating it with our #firstweeklps coverage. Our communications crew has been all over the city taking photos, videos and more at our buildings and I've had the pleasure of being the relay man, throwing them up on our https://news.lps.org/first-week-2023/ page.
Finished my second of two 6 1/2 hour shifts driving the “free ride” golf carts at the county fair for the local radio club. So many were excited to take a bumpy trip across the parking lots in the large 6-passenger carts. I just wish I had time to actually attend the fair myself! 😁
@r2d3522 @dynode Its not my thing either, but it seems that every aspect of radio one could be in to also has a contingent of folks that think it’s pointless and a waste of bandwidth. I figure I can try to find a way to play along, find a quieter band or shut it all off and go do something else for the weekend.
Fun night at the Sporting KC Leagues Cup game last night but I have never seen the stadium just get taken over by the other team. It was a Chivas home game (they were even selling Chivas merch!)— but we got the win and they are out of the tournament 😁
‘Twas the night before Quilt Auction and all through the camp, not a creature was stirring. It was too hot and damp! https://www.cjhcenter.org/quilt-auction starts tomorrow morning!
@WXFanatic Another meteorologist for you to add to your awesome list at https://rentry.co/wxlinks-mastodon : @rustywx in Lincoln, NE
@cpultz Funny how, in the past, being able to self-host your social media server would be considered a positive, but today it seems like a hurdle. I still think that having a known domain attached to your username is the ultimate blue checkmark, but I haven't seen a lot of that happening yet.
@w7voa Tricky thing with Mastadon… you could not see it on your timeline and, as far as you could tell, does not exist due to it being blocked, but does not mean it isn’t happening. Is this Mastodon’s problem? Certainly an image problem if their name keeps coming up in relation to it but does Apache get implicated when a website with such content is discovered? Is pop/smtp/imap tarnished if emails with such content are discovered?
@mrwilson Dozens! 😂 Spent countless hours with Warbirds and California Games!
Well look what showed up today… I wish it was a little cooler out. I’d love to get this new random wire on the air! #HamRadio
@cpultz I agree that it's a sad situation, but eyeballs, clicks and engagement are support and I don't see this as anything that can be supported anymore. I sure didn't want it to turn into what it has, but that's over. I wouldn't create an account on Truth and likewise, I can't keep an account on X. There are many great perspectives, hot takes and discussions that I know I will miss, and I hate that—but I have hope that it will eventually move to a better place.
