Bud Talbot

OMG the wet, snowy uphill finish at today's Paris-Nice looked brutal. And cold.

#cycling

We had 32 check-ins from 5 countries for this week's #FediFridayWinlinkNet. Confirmations are being sent via #Winlink and the net webpage has been updated at https://w0rmt.net/ffwn/

🚨 REMINDER: NO NET ON 3/20/26! 🚨

This week's questions was What other hobbies or pastimes do you engage in together with ham radio? Here are the reponses. We are a fun group! Lots of hikers and cyclists!

- Electronics, RC helicopters, 3D printing
- POTA with camping.
- I'm involved in the Philadelphia open source community
- weather spotting
- Heavy metal drumming
- volunteer for the City of Bellevue, WA BCS (Bellevue Communications Support), I love my dogs - black lab and daschshund, going to the dog parks with my XYL, I love my fern collection, DIY home maintenance and mountain topping (with my microwave gear of course).
- Mountain Biking and Photography
- Hiking, dancing, gaming, socializing, farmers markets, art
- bicycling, especially operating bicycle portable
- I enjoy outdoor recreation so POTA/SOTA are a natural fit
- Cycling, Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, Travel
- Geocaching
- Hiking with SOTA
- Cycling, Camping, Hiking, and Computer Nerdery
- hiking -- pota
- Camping!
- Emcom, antenna building, POTA, learning CW
- CW
- walking or riding my bike
- County CERT team and EMA, working on the town climate resilience committee
linux and python programming
- gaming and lego building
- hiking
- Camping, Hunting, and "Exploring"
- Hiking, and computer programming
- Radio Controlled cars, maintaining my house
- cycling, cross country skiing, and riding motorcycles.
- AUXCOMM, Red Cross
- Storm Chasing
- Director of Operations for 505 Joint Task Force a non-profit humanitarian organization and i volunteer my time as well in the support and growth of Colorado ARES. My passion is education and community building.

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#FFWN

Maybe I'll vibe learn #CW

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I just learned that Zack de la Rocha is 6 months older than me and now I feel much stronger and more hard core.

#RATM

Ok friends I need some recommendations on a good series to binge on. Preferably something I can download for offline viewing.

I liked The Expanse, Tour de France Unchained, kind of liked Fallout...I didn't watch a lot of shows tbh.

Has anyone watched the F1 series in Netflix? Thoughts?

My Team just got ordered to a 5000 acre fire in Nebraska- the 203 Fire. Pretty early season order for a CIMT. I'm sure it will be less than 14 days, but it's ripping right now.

#Wildfire

It is almost time to check in to the #FediFridayWinlinkNet!

Send your #Winlink message between 0000-2359 UTC Friday March 13.

Try to use a different band or mode to check in each week.

To: FFWN
Subject: check-in

Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username], [VHF/HF/APRS/Telnet, etc]

Message body line2: What other hobbies or pastimes do you engage in together with ham radio? [open response]

Message body line3: Do you agree to have your callsign shared in the check-in list? [Y or N/opt-out]

Follow #FFWN on mastodon for details and conversation, and be sure to check the net webpage at https://w0rmt.net/ffwn/ for a list of weekly check-ins and responses to the question of the week.

** Reminder: no net next week on 3/20/26! **

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For today's #radio_run I decided to break out the running vest. I usually only wear this if I'm going to be out longer than 1.5 hours or so, but it also makes sense for carrying too much RF stuff.

Today it carried the T-Deck+ #LoRa #APRS tracker, the Wismesh Tag on #meshcore, the T1000e on #meshtastic , and my phone. Maybe tomorrow I'll add the FT-5DR, which is probably my lightest HT.

#running

Whenever I type the #amateurradio hashtag in the mastodon web interface, it wants to auto-complete with something very different...

#FFWN folks- check your #Winlink. I just sent out this week's announcement. I'll share it here tomorrow.

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Report from last week's #FediFridayWinlinkNet :

We had 28 check-ins from 3 countries. Last week's question was "What's on your workbench?"

Here are the responses:
- Working on setting up Yaesu Wires-X on computer and since I have one two meter antenna I am trying to use an antenna switch to switch between radios that will use the same antenna.
- Contiuning to refine my IC-705 POTA backpack. Adding CW capibility and eliminating the need to grab parts from other kits.
- Building a packet node using Nino TNCs
- Repairing and remounting my 2m half-wave antenna that came down during the recent snow/ice storms.
- Rpi 4B with a 7" touchscreen that hopefully can serve as a bandscope for the IC-9100.
- I don't really have a workbench
- Nothing
- Too many unfinished projects.
- What workbench?! ;)
- My workbench = my ham shack desk, so two computers, pads and paper, CW paddles, and an old school 6-button key telephone with a speakerphone!
- An RC helicopter undergoing final setup before flight.
- It is empty.
soldering station, random parts bins, major pieces of an antique darkroom enlarger, dust and grit and random scraps of wire ;-)
- A non-functional IC-7100 I'm troubleshooting (poorly)
- A set of small screwdrivers, an Anytone AT-D578 and a Kenwood TH-D74
- Clutter!
- N6ARA Tiny Gawant antenna
lora APRS hand trx wth keyboard for sending winlink msg
- I'm fairly new to the hobby so I don't have a workbench.
- Adding an ARDEN connection to my jnos packet node, get DMR base radio fixed :-(
- A mini laptop running Windows 11 to a digirig to an Icom IC-7100 to a mfj-998 tuner to a 160 meter full wave loop at 25 ft.
- CSN Satellite tracker
- HAH. I have more than one. Sockets, parts, electrical parts. Too much SAWDUST from my wife because she won't install a damn collection system on her table saw!
- I have a bunch of electronics tools on my workbench but as far as radios, I have a Yaesu 991A, AnyTone 578D UVPlussIII, Yaesu FT2D running APRS and a Motorola GMRS repeater in a rack and still building!
- A computer being loaded.
- Working on getting up a 50 ft ez-up mast with a UHF allstar node on it as well as an APRS digipeater/igate. Working on getting the digipeater/igate working before it goes up of course. In Crook, CO we are working on a 70 ft tower with a UHF repeater, GMRS repeater, APRS digipeater, meshtastic repeater, weather station, & weather camera. Got most of the equipment but just need to get it up.
- Don't really have a workbench of any significance.

Thanks for participating! Confirmations will be sent via #Winlink and the net webpage has been updated at https://w0rmt.net/ffwn/

See you later this week for another #FFWN

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Hey @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org - Costco has a Singer 8832 Heavy Duty sewing machine for sale and I thought of you. Apparently it is good for sewing canvas. $189

I went on a #radio_run today and carried 3 #LoRa devices: 1) a 433 MHz T-Deck for LoRa #APRS 2) a T1000e for #meshtastic 3) a Muzi Works H2T for #meshcore

I had set up a portable #meshcore repeater at my starting point (attached to my truck on a 30' mast) to see if I could make it into the mesh at various points during my run.

And I prefer the term #geek over #nerd, thank you very much

#running
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So, Department of Energy is piloting the use of Grok at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (per a policy alert announcement from #AAAS) .

What could go wrong? 🤦‍♂️