When my wife was young she took a wolf whistle as a compliment. These days even just a touch is an infringement of civil liberties and is a sackable offence! Get real, please. I really hope a judge somewhere says, "case dismissed, stop wasting my time".
Yes, everyone regardless of race, sexuality, colour and nationality has a right to be treated properly and with respect, but there is a vast difference between abusing someone and just a friendly and unharmful touch or comment.
My FT817ND to the low dipole was turned on at about 0915z on 40.680 MHz with a DF of about 1960Hz.
UPDATE 1017z: Spotted by a couple of stations in the Canary Is at about 3000km.
My 500mW 10m WSPR beacon was turned on at 0914z. EA8BFK (2880km) and local G4KPX (14km) spotting me.
UPDATE 1019z: 4 stations spotting me with the furthermost ZD7GB (7607km).
UPDATE 1535z: 31 stations spotting me including JW1ITS Jan Mayen (2945km) in the frozen north. Best DX is a spot from Brazil.
Shortly, I intend to try 10m QRP WSPR TX and 8m QRP FT8 TX. The solar forecast is quite promising.
There is no doubt that AI can be very good at analysing lots of data very fast and can be much better than a human. Large language models are trained and GPT4 is vastly bigger and better than the last version. Mistakes still occur, yet many people believe it is true!
Recently I have seen several things on Facebook that may have been done with AI. The trouble now is telling what is real and what is not. As time goes by, AI will only get better. All I can advice is you take great care and assume anything a person is supposed to have said is AI unless you know for certain it is real.
This was recently on the FTX-1F IO group...
"Talked to the folks at the Yaesu Booth, at the Orlando Hamfest, today. They said the FTX-1F was ready to be released, worldwide. The current holdup is type acceptance, by the FCC, here in the United States. They want to release the radio simultaneously, around the world. They said they could not even bring a radio to look at, because it was not type accepted, yet.Buddy WB4OMG”
What surprises me is that better specs have not been released giving more detail.
When I briefly owned a Yaesu FT710 I tried 4m FT8 and was copied all over the UK and mainland Europe despite not having a "proper" antenna and loading up my 2m big-wheel via the auto ATU. Outside the Es season activity was very disappointing. I was surprised.
Also, it is a pity we don't have the WARC 60m band like many others. Many are probably put off by the "bitty" nature of the UK allocations. No doubt we share this with the military who keep saying "no". I bet if we look at all the bands kept "just in case" for the UK military, it would be huge chunks of spectrum.
I fail to understand why radio amateurs cannot gain limited secondary access to some of these with very low power, by NoV, and us being asked to go QRT at any time there was heightened tension, war or interference. After all they know our callsigns and location! In the meantime huge swathes of spectrum ripe for experimentation stay fallow.
If you ask me .... stupid.
My gear was turned on about 0730z .
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