Raker de W4WWW
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Raker de W4WWW
@w4www-raker.bsky.social
He does #DCIM, #hamradio, #wardriving, #satcomm, #sigint, #scotch, #whisky, and learning #infosec. #oregontrailgeneration #numbermuncherscult
Updating the #modelrailroad layout. No more wooden board color, soon green grass colored. Track already has ballast so I don't have to worry about that.
February 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
January 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Until next time, #shmoocon. #meshtastic #heltecv3
January 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
January 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's nice up here in south PA too.
January 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
AAARRRGGGHHHHH I hate apartment living. SNR was great 24-30 Dec after a week and change of +8dB noise floor, now it's kind of back. #adsb
January 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Getting there. Going to reprint the tray in PLA (has the characteristic PETG warp). Probably grey, but will keep the purple keystone panel and orange jack. Also I love Wago lever nuts. Duplexer tuning tomorrow hopefully. #RickPi #hamradio #cdr700
December 31, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Psssh. Word Munchers.
December 30, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Almost done with it too. A replacement repeater controller for my old Motorola CDR700 repeater. Designed the case, filled it with a Pi3, MMDVM hat and power goodies. Final config today and tomorrow, goes into the repeater tomorrow. Purple is prod, grey is prototype. #RickPi #MMDVM #hamradio
December 30, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Nextion HMI displays are going to be the end of me. At least the MMDVM RICKpi drawer thinger is finally at version 1.0 after many kg of filament used for test fitment prints. #mmdvm #repeaterbuilder #stm32-dv #nextion
December 30, 2024 at 7:17 AM
I feel dirty having done this. Pancake duplexer cavity for 450MHz and the previous owner broke an "ear" off a tuning slug screw. 6-hr epoxy and a 8-32 nut hopefully won't mess up tuning for this. #hamradio #duplexer #tuning
December 29, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Oh nice. Finally, an app gives an actual changelog in their "Changes" section of the App Store.

It's @bsky.app . #changelog #appstore
December 21, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Are there actually, literally, no WEA alerts right now? I can't remember the last time warn.pbs.org had nothing on it. #WARN #WEA #NOAA
December 21, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Well, that frickin' sucks. Noise floor was around -33dBFS, now it's -27dBFS. Time to find the noise source. #adsb #adsbex #sdr
December 15, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Finding old crap... I closed this building in 2010 and was laid off in 2012. Paved the way to getting a job in the video game industry. Yes, old Qualcomm folk, that's old building V.
December 11, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Woohoo! Two CDM700 repeater cabinets, the right UHF cab is fully kitted with an old school RICK and pancake duplexer, the left VHF cab is pending a controller and duplexer. Coming soon to #shmoocon for DMR! (UHF full duplex, VHF half duplex)
December 9, 2024 at 4:46 AM
I see traffic flying from PHL/BOS/NYC/EWR/BWI/IAD here in SE Pennsylvania. We're back to normal and I'm looking forward to the end of year travelpalooza.
December 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Coming along nicely! CDMs are VHF placeholders.
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
-chef's kiss- No-stop filament change! Printing a bracket for a replacement RICK in Motorola CDR700, eventually to be populated with a Pi3 and STM32-MMDVM.
#hamradio #mmdvm #raspberrypi #3dprinting
November 23, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Nice night when one of my cameras caught a transformer arcing over and eventually catching fire by home. Love small town life.
November 21, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Or my synthesizer interface (Korg Volca series) korgusshop.com/cdn/shop/fil...
November 17, 2024 at 3:08 AM
@thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social and @actionretro.bsky.social Would either of you be interested in a NIB Apple Microphone c.1990? No model numbers on the still-shrinkwrapped box... Also likely to be one of the mics with the long 3.5mm plug.
November 16, 2024 at 5:08 PM