Kevin MacLeod’s been providing royalty-free music for probably 20 years: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
Thank you for looking into it!
The only thing I could notice for sure was that there were replies but they didn’t flow over to our instance:
This was the same post but directly from blahaj.
There is a Stereogram in the image on the TV.
@gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone there seems to be a federation issue as I can't see your reply on my instance :(
All-Seeing Eye and the one card players cut in half are some fun I'm having with destructive card concepts. Growing up we gave so much reverence to mass-produced text books and other things which shouldn’t be defaced or damage that I thought I'd be rebellious.
note to @w0odl@lemmy.radio, any idea what might be causing a federation issue with this instance?
Fell in love with the idea of 1KBWC and couldn’t even wait for the first game to start making some cards.
Apparently Bicycle makes blank playing cards, so I ordered a couple of decks, in addition to a bunch of sharpie markers.
This way we can shuffle them like a regular deck, and the form factor is compact.
That’s One Hot Card was a thermal sublimation ink transfer I whipped up.
I ordered some blank playing cards so they can be properly shuffled, and stand up to wear and tear.
I also plan to make some cards require incremental destruction in order to be used.
Lots of room here for an interesting game.
The horrors persist, but so do I.
No free meals
Just wait until you learn about companies which pay per diem when traveling.
I had thought the same until we visited Idaho and discovered not only the Potato Museum, but also Craters of the Moon national monument, EBR-1 which was one of the world’s first nuclear power plants, and the stunning rolling hills in the north.
I was kinda surprised at the neat things to see out there.
I’m going to try and hop on 20m in my high-noise floor area (lots of EMI) and try to QSO on 10-12W.
I suppose I should practice Morse code, too.
How about you?
E: Fediverse PSA: Getting your (US) license has never been easier—there is no Morse code requirement! Just memorize the answers to the questions (perfectly legal) and take the test, I did all three of mine online, one of which was from a beach on a Pacific island during the pandemic!
I got it into my head that I would like to see a spherical depiction of my QSOs. Azimuthal and other representations weren't cutting it for me.
I managed to coax an LLM to output my ADIF into a KML so I could better visualize the reach of my QSOs, and I am quite stunned. 20m has almost complete global reach, as you'll see below. Admittedly, on CW it probably does. In these visualizations, the vast majority of contacts are on FT8 20m, but there are a few dozen SSB contacts as far as Indonesia. Usually I made these contacts well before sunrise.
This is a representation of my entire logbook, so any QSO not from the SW US are 10m.
Setup: IC-7300, barefoot, 15m mast, and a 20m twinlead j-pole. Having been temporarily based in a residential area, I had quite a high noise floor from various EMI sources, and could have probably done better with weak stations had my noise floor been lower.
Moving to the west:
More west, Australia prominently visible:
Antipodal view:
Looking toward the east, the west coast of Africa coming into view:
Africa; the lonely QSO east of Madagascar is Reunion Island, got this one on FT8:
You can see a sharp decline in activity about mid-screen.
About 1m 15s remaining:
45s after 1200Z:
Granted, this is the IARU Championship. But that's a lot of people on the radio.
20m at 1500Z.
Side note: for the last three days I’ve enjoyed nearly bottomless noise floors; been making SSB QSOs to Japan, Indonesia, and even Rarotonga. Then–today of all days–the AirBnB beside my house has turned on their aircon and it’s completely wiping out all but the strongest signals. My waterfall looks like college ruled notebook paper:
1830Z Update:
1900Z. This is wild.
The greatest, even.