#wicen — Public Fediverse posts

@stux Me, camped at Imbil for a horse endurance ride when the alarm on the phone rings at 1:30AM to get me up for a 2AM start… when I only went to bed at 10PM the previous night (and got up early _that_ day too).

(Anyone in #WICEN #AREC #RAYNET or does #EmergencyComms etc will understand…)

This week-end, Brisbane Area WICEN has its first #EmergencyCommsExercise taking place at Stirling's Crossing, #Imbil this week-end. Some from the Gold Coast Amateur Radio Society are helping us too.

Not sure if we're doing packet radio stuff, we didn't the last two times, but we'll bring the gear needed anyway. Better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.

I suspect we'll be operating mostly on VHF (147.150MHz +600kHz FM and 147.500MHz simplex FM).

I'll be posting some photos of the events, AltText will be put in when I get the time to do so.

#AmateurRadio #EmergencyComms #GCARS #WICEN

#Debian pre-seed late command tip… if you are using `apt-get install` commands to install packages into the new system in your `preseed/late_command` script:

use `in-target <COMMAND>` to run a command in the target, do NOT use `chroot /target <COMMAND>`.

Otherwise #debootstrap will complain about a bad file descriptor.

I think I've now got one of the #WICEN base computers installed from a USB stick almost fully automatically now.

Still some annoying prompts, but for the most part you can just hit ENTER to dismiss them.