So, I found a bunch of great info getting a BBS set up on #Network105 last week. I am now SUPER interested in getting involved in the #DigitalTrafficNetwork on #RadioRelayInternational . I just gotta figure out if there is room for me here. sounds so fun!
I still think it’s so fun to send friends birthday greetings using #MorseCode. I still think the #NTS is so fun, even though we have the internet and next messages. #qrp#elecraft#AmateurRadio
January 27th is the National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders in the USA. These are people who lived downwind of the Nevada Nuclear Test site, and were exposed to radioactive fallout. Much of that fallout remains radioactive and is now embedded into the ecosystem.
The US government has paid a token compensation to a minuscule portion of this community through #RECA.
The disposable vapes are also an issue, but I understand they're being banned, and so they should be. Along with any and all electronic that aren't reusable and repairable.
It might be fun to do a "weekly get to know you question." where people send me their answers via #NTS#Radiogram and I post the results on a website (cumulative results) and individually here, as they come in. Would anyone participate?
I have NO IDEA why i am so dead set about setting up a #PacketRadio station in 2023. I think I just want to participate in #NTS on the digital level. I just gotta figure out who I can even connect to on #VHF
"In Operation Desert Rock, the military conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada Proving Grounds between 1951 and 1957. In total, more nearly 400,000 American soldiers and civilians would be classified as 'atomic veterans.'"
I keep saying that getting on the air is the best way to increase your #MorseCode speed. More specifically, traffic nets are the way to increase your speed and head copy.
I am finally to the point where I am no longer writing anything down other that callsigns on the Ohio slow net. And can send and receive traffic without getting scared.
Fallout cloud from a nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site during the Upshot-Knothole series (1953).
This is about an hour after the test, and the cloud is in the process of spreading into Southern Utah where it will dump a significant portion of its radioactive fallout on houses, farms and ranches.
Playing a #trivia game while also learning how to use the #AmateuRadio#NTS National Traffic System? Yes, I'll do it. Wonder if I can send it in via #MorseCode ?
Playing a #trivia game while also learning how to use the #AmateuRadio#NTS National Traffic System? Yes, I'll do it. Wonder if I can send it in via #MorseCode ?
Today is the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on Earth, the Trinity Test in New Mexico in 1945, three weeks before the nuclear attacks on Japan.
There will be many images posted of the mushroom cloud today, but here is what mattered more, the fallout cloud. Dozens of homes and communities were blanketed with fallout, which which also contaminated fields as far away as Illinois and Indiana.
The fallout from the Trinity Test that landed in Indiana led to the contamination of strawboard boxes, some of which were used by the Kodak Company to ship film. The radiation from the fallout fogged the film, making it unusable. The story made newspapers after the news of the nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.
When nuclear testing started at the Nevada Test Site in 1951, Kodak was given top secret information about the scheduling of tests so that they could protect their products.
The people who lived downwind from the Nevada nuclear tests were not given the same consideration as the products of the Kodak Company.
@RL_Dane@Fred A radiogram is basically a ham radio message in a telegram-like format. Routine traffic is limited to ~25 words, punctuation is spelled and thus a word.
Most local (2m/70cm) nets that pass traffic are listed as Emergency Traffic nets. With no emergency, they still meet to train and love having new people join to learn.
#Threave near #CastleDouglas in #DumfriesandGalloway looking like a painting now the uncut meadows are in full bloom. Two years into a one hundred year landscape regeneration project, the transformation in this short time is breathtaking. If you can visit, it’s currently a. bit like a desert in #superbloom