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Just having food at the Beach Bar on Inishbofin after 24 hours of the #IOTA competition with the Shannon Basin Radio Club. A fun day of radio with little sleep. #amateurradio @ei0irts

After a long time i did some contesting again to test out my now (mostly) finished remote station. Seems to work well enough.

#Contest #IOTA

Trillion with a capital "T" --> Bankrupt with a capital "B"

Damages sought by plaintiffs from four states in the US against #Meta Platforms Inc. are around 1.4 Trillion with a capital "T".

Encourage your state to join with other states California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey and file lawsuits for the citizens in your state to also seek damages of 1.4 trillion or more.

8 states seeking 2.8 trillion
12 states seeking 4.2 trillion
16 states seeking 5.6 trillion

and we're not even halfway through the states yet!

The #inept CEO of Meta is already ethically and spiritually bankrupt. The way these things go is that he will be financially bankrupt too -- MUCH sooner than anybody predicted, much sooner before his spawn are out of middle school.

Always require CEOs who are younger than you are to have ethics equal or greater than yours --- if they don't have those ethics, then fire them. If they "cannot" be fired because they structured their company to control the majority of voting shares that should have been allocated to an independent Board of Directors, you KNOW you're dealing with a #Nazi and he deserves every #iota of bad karma heading his way.

Why do we know bad karma is heading his way? #Zuckerberg has made more money on the genocide in #Gaza than anybody else on the planet... and Meta's market cap was nowhere near a Trillion dollars before October 7, 2023.

Note: edited to fix the errant +4 states each adding 1.4 Trillion to the cumulative total ... blaming too many games of 2048 for that step math.

#hamradio 1/2

@ai6yr @N4JAW

Abhorrent condx tonight on 20 meters. Sunflares hissing. Only one big gun on the band. CU3HN, Fabio from the Azores Islands #IOTA EU-175. Enormous pile up.
Fired up the PA and switched ...

We aren't where I thought we were.
This rubbish photo is of the islands off the southern coast of #iceland . These include Surtsey and Heimay Islands.

I only know of Surtsey from #AmateurRadio controversies about operating from the rock a number of years ago (probably when #IOTA was a new thing)

Surtsey was formed in 1963 by a volcanic eruption. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey

#BoatTripNorth #Iceland

The ProMaster iota Is an Ultralight Tripod You’ll Really Want to Use https://petapixel.com/2026/04/20/the-promaster-iota-is-an-ultralight-tripod-youll-really-want-to-use/ #ultralightweight #tabletoptripod #Equipment #Sponsored #promaster #iota219 #iota422 #tripod #iota

Just worked 8Q7ZW in Maldives 🇲🇻 (Gridsquare: MJ63 / distance: 9066.9 mi) on 20m using FT8 #hamr #wavelog #IOTA AS-013

I built a tool to compare #Java performance across ARM, x86, and RISC-V single-board computers! It uses the Renaissance Suite wrapped in a @jbangdev script. The results are now live on my blog with an interactive dashboard. Winners from this batch: #LattePanda #IOTA, #OrangePi 5 Ultra, and #RaspberryPi 5.

All info in this blog:
https://webtechie.be/post/2026-02-24-java-benchmarks-on-single-board-computers/

Video on YouTube going through the tool and results:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efLS8pBtqZ0

#JavaOnSingleBoardComputers #JavaOnRISCV

Just worked KP5/NP3VI in Desecheo Island on 20m using FT8 #hamr #wavelog #IOTA NA-095

@Jeremy That is a great point. I had some trouble distinguishing #WWA from #POTA / #SOTA / #IOTA etc. due to its rules. But "You cannot win POTA" is a good argument!

#hamradio

Today I'm introducing a new hashtag: #JavaOnSingleBoardComputers :-)

Thanks to DFRobot, I took my first step toward testing other single-board computers with #Java, #JavaFX, and @pi4j. The #LattePanda #IOTA looks like a great board and calls for more experiments after a quick first test...

Video and blog on:
https://webtechie.be/post/2025-11-25-first-test-lattepanda-iota-with-ubuntu-and-java/

LattePanda IOTA: Intel N150 Single Board Computer

The Panda IOTA is a x86 project board with a gang of expandability, maximum compatibility, and a heroic amount of go-faster-ness.

https://interfacinglinux.com/2025/11/03/lattepanda-iota-intel-n150-single-board-computer/

#IOTA #LATTEPANDA #Linux #REVIEW #SBC #X86

Just worked VK9QO in Christmas Island 🇨🇽 (Gridsquare: OH29 / distance: 11453.2 km) on QO-100 🛰️ (29.5° el / 156.5° az) using USB #hamr #wavelog #amsat #IOTA OC-003

How many "Get outside and put something On The Air" award programs are there in #hamradio?

- Islands (#IOTA)
- Summits (#SOTA)
- Flora & Fauna (#WWFF)
- Parks (#POTA)
- Bunkers (#WWBOTA)
- Beaches (#BOTA)
- Castles (#COTA)
- Churches and Chapels (#CHOTA)

Which ones did I miss? Does #RaDAR (Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio) count?

Just got a #lattepanda #iota to try out over the next few weeks. Looks very neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osde6T2a7m0

Just worked PJ7K in Sint Maarten 🇸🇽 (Gridsquare: FK88LB / distance: 7080.8 km) on 20m using CW #hamr #wavelog #IOTA NA-105 #cwfe

Just worked FP5KE in Saint Pierre & Miquelon (Gridsquare: GN16WS / distance: 4526 km) on 20m using USB #hamr #wavelog #IOTA NA-032