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Wtf.. the new Discord embeds don't work with content warnings. That's pretty bad. #Discord #CW #ContentWarning
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Here's a photo of Craig's / #WB3GCK #hamonabike setup during our #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #CW #Morsecode #QSO
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If you have a local ham club with several people interested in this key, you can buy brass hardware, and with the links in the README can buy enough to make 5 keys for $50 (with a bunch left over because of different multiples, of course). I did this because I intend to make several of these keys for testing and display.
But it works fine with far cheaper stainless hardware; brass just looks nicer. As far as I can tell, most hardware stores even in the US have M3 metric hex socket screws in bins, so you don't have to buy 10-packs or 50-packs of hardware. This works perfectly fine. You just need a hex wrench and a small box-end wrench or needle nose pliers or forceps/hemostats or something to tighten the nuts when you adjust spacing.
My goal here is to help make it cheap and easy to have a really usable key.
And if you run into any problems, please please ask for help! The whole point of the beta release is to get feedback so I can improve both the models and the instructions before posting this more widely.
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This design is ready for you to test!
I printed out keys with six different variations on spring strength, four different sizes of covers, two different heights of swivel bases, and brought them all to my local club monthly show-and-tell. A few others club members have also printed them. I took some feedback, and have now updated the documentation and released STEP and STL files for multiple configurations.
The ones I printed were ABS. One club member printed in PLA, and another in PETG, so it looks like this design can work well across multiple types of filament. One club member screwed down what I had meant as a belt swivel mount to a board that you rest your wrist/forearm on and it's a very clever addition! Picture attached.
I would like lots of detailed feedback! If you are interested in a single-paddle morse key, it doesn't matter whether you want a very light or extremely stiff spring or anything in between, this design can meet your needs. It's not expensive. You may be able to use random hardware lying around the house, especially if you have spare parts for 3d printers, but I also have links in the documentation for various hardware you can use with it.
Lots of options and possibilities, and if you need help, please don't hesitate to speak up!
There's a non-null probability that I'll soon put the following global #CW on top of my profile:
"Caution: the older I get, the more I feel enclined to repost every great photography I encounter. Taste police and optimized posting zealots can consider themselves warned."
Je crois qu'iels ont du mal à intégrer à quoi sert une revue de code individuelle. (#CW arme à feu, nudité)
Dearest #Fediverse,
Don't become a doomscroller's den.
I'm not preaching at you about the #CW right now, just saying, "watch out for one another."
I know world events are very distressing.
So please keep posting your nerdy-arse status updates and passion projects.
Love you,
—The Melancholy Dane
Darude Sandstorm as it was always meant to be: played on Morse Code paddles
https://loops.video/v/75kyX1g_By
Direct video link, for terminal enjoyers: https://loopsusercontent.com/videos/80575218996875264/127598525214357858/el1iOMDcfBdVgEMmgh0B78z2vT6CgBH4x4muNhGb.720p.mp4
From @utahforrest on YouTube.
Loops.video · Watch @RL_Dane's loop on Loops.videoDarude Sandstorm as... • 0 likes • 0 comments
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That's a couple of accounts unfollowed and some on short-term mute again.
I'm begging you, CW your US politics posts! Mastodon makes it really easy to do this and improves the experience for everyone.
My timeline here is absolutely DESTROYED by the same articles and the same posts over and over and over. I get it, you're scared and venting but there's only so many What Elon Did posts I want to see, especially if his face is front and centre of it.
Be kind, CW your stuff.
This torture in #Sudan is heinous. The parasitic ruling classes (or wannabees) feed on violence and death as much as they do on money. It's an unholy web stretching across the globe and back in time.
#Palestine #NaziGermany #USslavery
#CW for descriptions of torture in article.
https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/114120789558023329
MastodonAndrew Stroehlein (@andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)#Sudan - "More than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum, according to evidence seen by the Guardian."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/07/evidence-of-torture-found-as-detention-centre-and-mass-grave-discovered-outside-khartoum-sudan-rsf
Twelve Days of QRZ – 2024
I have been more focused on finishing the Twelve Days of QRZ with as many modes and bands as I can. I hit my goals and added a few more.
So I had some CW skeds on the groundwave and my course is progressing, but I still don't dare to answer calls on HF. Is anyone interested in a QRS shortwave sked? 10 m, 20 m or 40 m preferred. (WARC bands between 10 m and 20 m are possible, too, but I don't have /m antenna for those bands and my car is a weatherproof option)
#hamradio #cw #telegraphy
Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass man auch Re-Tröts mit einer #CW versehen könnte. Wirklich! Ich krieg so viele Re-Tröts bei denen ich mir das so sehr wünschen würde und es hält mich auch vom Re-Tröten ab.
Besonders bei Zeitungsartikeln aktuell wäre ich für Politikwarnungen etc pp sehr sehr dankbar!
Verstehe natürlich gleichzeitig, dass Nachrichtenagenturen nicht alles CW-en können von sich aus. Daher der Wunsch es bei Re-Tröts zu ermöglichen.
Come on, put US Politics behind a CW already.
There's a couple of my mutuals here that I keep having to mute because it's just too much having to wade through so much of the same news stories about the rise of facism in the US.
For those of you that are using CW, honestly and sincerely, thank you!
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I don't need CW; I'm finding filters sufficient.
It's a tough question. I strongly agree that engaging with the world we find ourselves in is our shared responsibility.
And yet: offensiveness is subjective. Why is it *obviously* appropriate to CW sex and violence, topics that not everyone wants or needs a warning for?
There's a difference between offense and damage. Framing the question as preferences, or what might offend, makes it easier to ignore the people who say lack of CW harms them. Just as framing masking as a courtesy makes it easier to ignore the folks who say your exhalations might kill them.
When someone says "I need X to protect myself," a reply that sounds like "Y is perfectly adequate.. you shouldn't need X," strikes me as all kinds of wrong. It smacks of "Well, why don't you just.."
I expect I'll be inconsistent about my use of CW vs. tags. But I'm not going to be offended by being asked (either generally or directly) to put some stuff behind CWs.
Putting @hamchallenge #HC06S in the "W" column. I managed 8 QSOs on the 20m band as part of this evening's #SST.
Counting the 4 #POTA hunts I managed in the hours leading up to the contest, that makes 12 QSOs in #CW. Not bad for my first day.
There are technically other week's challenges I could also count for this, e.g. "try a new mode" or "have a QSO in CW", but I have other goals in mind for those weeks.
First #CW QSO!
Was just fumbling around the bands and stumbled on a POTA call. Curiously he's not listed in the pota app. Anyways I clearly copied his callsign, so I figured why not give it a go. All it is is trading RST and QTH.
Man that's a rush. Glad I did that so I can calm down for #SST this evening.