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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2025-01-23 at 13:37

I know some folks were talking about moving from WordPress to Hugo, and this came across my feed today. It supposedly converts a WordPress site to Hugo.

I haven't tried it myself, but some might find it useful:

https://wp2hugo.blogdb.org/

[#]WordPress #Hugo #StaticSite #web #website

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2025-01-08 at 16:19

anyone remember, THE BEST INVENTION BY MICROSOFT, Songsmith? (haha)

This was way before AI.

tl;dr: you sing into this program and it generates "music" to match your lyrics

and yes, people have fed lyrics from famous songs into the program just to see what it produces, lol

https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E

[#]Microsoft #Songsmith #AI #music #lyrics

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2025-01-05 at 13:46

for those who haven't seen it yet, there is a "Ham Challenge" going on this year, that is meant to:

"inspire you to extend your horizon in amateur radio by weekly challenges through the year that touch all aspects of ham radio (and related fields)."

https://hamchallenge.org/

[#]AmateurRadio #HamRadio #hamr #HamChallenge #radio @hamchallenge #puzzle #puzzles #skill #skills #science #ScienceMastodon #RadioWaves #weekly

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2025-01-03 at 00:15

I'm loving discovering more #music related hashtags and folks here, and it's great seeing people who I already follow posting their music too!

keep it spinning! 🎵🎶

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2025-01-01 at 21:29

my 2024 year in music, most of it is streaming, but all my record listening is mixed in too!

https://listenbrainz.org/user/yano1798/year-in-music/2024/

[#]YearInMusic #music #ListenBrainz #MusicBrainz #scrobble #MetaBrainz #vinyl #VinylRecords #vinylCommunity #Streaming #tidal

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-31 at 15:56

The book has been claimed! Thank you all for the boosts and spreading the word!

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-31 at 02:00

I found an extra copy of this book laying around while cleaning, if anyone in the U.S. would like it, I'm happy to ship it to you for free (basic USPS shipping)

the only two things I ask:

you actually use it to study for your Tech Exam, AND, please pass it along to someone else for free

I've already asked in some smaller circles, but most people already have their licenses, heh

first come, first serve

EDIT: The book has been claimed!

[#]AmateurRadio #HamRadio #hamr #HamRadioCommunity

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-29 at 13:30

@AF0AJ 👋

thanks for the contact on #20m / #FT8 🙂

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-27 at 22:18

thanks y'all for the suggestion! my toroids have arrived today from Mouser!

time to wrap up lots of my wires! and share them with some local hams

thank you!

these are the FT240-31 I've been looking for 🙂

[#]Mouser #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #hamr #toroid #toroids #electronics

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-23 at 19:33

Looks like Meshtastic version 2.5.15 is out:

https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-Android/releases/tag/2.5.15

[#]Meshtastic #radio #Lora #LoraWAN #mesh_network #mesh #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #hamr

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-22 at 19:04

anyone have any online stores they recommend for buying a toroid core? specifically a Toroid Core FT240-31?

I know I can just "google it" but I'm hoping some of y'all might have some preferred ideas

I've bought a second one on Amazon, and this is the second time it has arrived broken (split in two)!

I'm returning it and getting my money back, but I want to try elsewhere that might ship it a little better

any suggestions?

[#]HamRadio #AmateurRadio #hamr

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-21 at 15:43

I have a new #blog post out:

https://k8vsy.radio/2024/12/bluesky-vs-mastodon.html

basically, I put my thoughts from a few "toots" into a post to share on my blog.

While I am critical of Bluesky at the moment for the lack of ham radio folks (for now), I hope it does gain more traction, and gives people a new "home" away from X/Twitter.

[#]AmateurRadio #HamRadio #bluesky #mastodon #hamr

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-21 at 10:03

Just worked T32TTT in Eastern Kiribati 🇰🇮 (Gridsquare: BJ12 / distance: 8470.7 km) on 40m using FT8 #hamr #wavelog #EasternKiribati #ATNO #40m #FT8

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-18 at 19:43

this reminds me of the saying,

"just because you can, doesn't mean you should..."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/openai-launches-free-phone-hotline-to-let-anyone-call-chatgpt/

[#]OpenAI #AI #ChatGPT

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-16 at 18:28

I submitted my first contribution to Discogs

I found an indie rock LP at a record store down in Athens, Ohio and it wasn't on Discogs, so took some pictures and with what little information is on the inserts, I was able to submit everything 🙂

looks like I have to wait for it to be reviewed/voted on, before it is live or available on their website

[#]vinyl #VinylRecords #VinylCollection #RecordStore #Discogs

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-08 at 22:32

I created an account on #Bluesky for ham radio based feeds, but after playing around with it for a day it feels like there are a lot less individuals posting under the hashtags for #AmateurRadio and #HamRadio 😢 (maybe not enough people use the hashtags?)

you are welcome to follow me there, but I'll def be more active here on #Mastodon

(also, I like having 500 characters for toots here compared to 300 over on Bluesky, lol (and yes, I know that is server dependent))

https://bsky.app/profile/k8vsy.radio

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-07 at 21:52

I found that you can "scrobble" your listening of a vinyl record or a CD (or anything else really) to Last.fm, Libre.fm, and/or ListenBrainz via an Android phone:

https://yano.me/2024/04/scrobbling-records-lastfm-listenbrainz/

[#]scrobble #LastFM #ListenBrainz #MusicBrainz #music #vinyl #VinylRecords #vinylcollection #NowPlaying #shazam #recordplayer #LibreFM #scrobbling #MetaBrainz #android

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-04 at 17:56

sometimes I wish #Tidal did a #wrapped thing like #Spotify

but I kind of like the statistics I collect by scrobbling my listening habits to #lastfm & #ListenBrainz / #MusicBrainz 😍

my stats for 2024 (so far), are available here: https://listenbrainz.org/user/yano1798/stats/?range=this_year

I'm also on last.fm with the same username, but they don't show 2024 stats until January 2025 🤷‍♀️

[#]music #scrobble #MetaBrainz #2024wrapped #wrapped2024

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-03 at 21:39

I just updated the Awards page on my blog with the new stats!

https://k8vsy.radio/awards.html

[#]LoTW #QRZ #hamradio

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Written by Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her) on 2024-12-03 at 21:24

and they confirmed on #LoTW 😍

Now I have #WAS on #80m #40m #30m #20m #17m #15m and #10m 👀

I just need to finish off #12m WAS for the U.S., and if I get the right antenna setup soon, I'll try for #6m too

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