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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mxrn@social.tchncs.de wrote:

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):
coachtony@me.dm ("Tony Stubblebine") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

not bad for something that collapses down to a tube about 2 feet long. it won’t take the weight of a balun, but should be great for getting the far end of an end-fed up in the air

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• test of fully erecting my new backpack-sized mast in my back yard

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I am starting to get more confident that I can raise this mast by myself

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• adding loops for the top guys

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jsparty@changelog.social ("JS Party 🪩") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I am an alpha male in that I have an additional channel with a value that I can use to control my opacity.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, I think pre-measured bottom guys are going to do the trick

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• ~2 ft (collapsed) mast erected as ~16 ft mast with bottom guying in place

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, this gets us four approximately equal-length brightly-colored bottom guy ropes

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• 5ecbf4656079438f.png

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

it is only about 2 feet long when collapsed, so I’ll bungee-cord it to a stand to roughly measure the bottom guy lines

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• collapsed mast lashed onto car stand

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

part two 📡

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• after adding guy loops to the top guy ring

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

setting things up to try out my new (fiberglass) backpack mast 📡

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• loops added to guy ring for mast

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Current status: Waiting for the locksmith to break into my own home. First time in Tallinn. I got the locksmith subscription service when we lived in Berlin, my whole family sucks with auto-locking doors :)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Who else is tired of this bozo announcing what science is while simultaneously claiming the Earth is 6000 years old?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/26/the-irony-of-a-creationist-moaning-about-others-denying-science/

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• Ken Ham (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

see also https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2658

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

my motto is also: I yam what I yam.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria, 1827

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record 'Pictures at an Exhibition' live, 1971

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day in Hawaii

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Independence Day in Bangladesh

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: David Packard died, 1996; age of 83

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ☁️ Overcast, +38°F, 67%, →19mph, 1010hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 09:06:50-0400 | Dawn: 06:34:35 | Sunrise: 07:03:36
Zenith: 13:16:19 | Sunset: 19:29:22 | Dusk: 19:58:28
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Hey, I don’t make the rules.”

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/indecision.png

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

if you're using ascii you just need to add 0x30 to your bcd digits. In the original Super Mario Bros, the number characters are right at the start of the pattern table so they don't even need to offset them.

Not that the stock NES supports decimal mode, though

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

When I first heard about binary coded decimal it sounded like such an eccentric feature, and then the second I actually touched real live 6502 assembly I realized how amazing it is on a computer without multiply/divide instructions to have a way to directly operate on display-ready representations of numbers

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder who predicted rise of the PC, dies at 94

RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/25/gordon-moore-intel-co-founder-who-predicted-rise-of-the-pc-dies-at-94

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evanw@hachyderm.io ("Evan Wallace") wrote: