• Greetings!

    From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to DOVE-Net.HAM_Radio on Wed Jul 27 08:03:13 2022
    Just a quick hello from QF56oc, VK2WAY here in Sydney Australia

    de VK2WAY
    Jared

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  • From Dave@VERT/BOFHNET to Jared on Thu Jul 28 10:09:36 2022
    G'day from VK3ACP QF12vj in Ballarat Australia.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Jared on Thu Jul 28 19:42:00 2022
    On 07-27-22 08:03, Jared wrote to DOVE-Net.HAM_Radio <=-

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    Just a quick hello from QF56oc, VK2WAY here in Sydney Australia

    Fancy seeing you here Jared. :D



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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Dave on Thu Jul 28 19:42:00 2022
    On 07-28-22 10:09, Dave wrote to Jared <=-

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    G'day from VK3ACP QF12vj in Ballarat Australia.


    That's an unfamiliar call. Hi Dave. :)



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  • From Dave@VERT/BOFHNET to Vk3jed on Fri Jul 29 05:35:27 2022
    That's an unfamiliar call. Hi Dave. :)

    Hi!
    Aussies coming out of the wood work all over the place. Great to see.

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Jared on Thu Jul 28 07:59:00 2022
    Jared,

    Just a quick hello from QF56oc, VK2WAY here in Sydney Australia

    FB OM, from EM34tr, WX4QZ, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Dave on Fri Jul 29 09:08:32 2022
    Re: Greetings!
    By: Dave to Jared on Thu Jul 28 2022 10:09:36


    G'day from VK3ACP QF12vj in Ballarat Australia.

    G'day Dave! QF56oc here; right on the edge of the city.

    I'm pretty sure we've spoken before though, right?

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  • From Dave@VERT/BOFHNET to Jared on Sat Jul 30 06:16:19 2022

    G'day Dave! QF56oc here; right on the edge of the city.

    I'm pretty sure we've spoken before though, right?

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    G'day Jared,

    I don't think we have. I don't do as much phone on HF as I should. COVID-related suboptimal station setup is my excuse. And by that, I mean I got my license during COVID and haven't yet ever had an experienced HAM around to tell me just how fubar my set up actually is. High noise floor. High tech house with LED everything (including the reef tank a few feet from me), rack full of server gear and a massive UPS on the other side of the wall. A few ferrites aren't quite enough for this job. Still, on occasion I manage a HF QSO that isn't old mate over the back fence who I've listened to while connected to a dummy load.
    If you do SSTV on 40m, you might have seen me about though. I do that from time to time if the conditions look like I have a hope of making it out of VK3.

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  • From Fakeshemp@VERT/BTTFBBS to ALL on Fri Jul 29 15:07:00 2022
    Hello There, QTH EM99xo, KC3GJU, Greg in Morgantown, WV USA. :-)

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Vk3jed on Fri Jul 29 11:51:00 2022
    Tony,

    Fancy seeing you here Jared. :D

    It's more like "We've got to quit meeting like this...folks are going to talk". <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Vk3jed on Fri Jul 29 22:54:56 2022
    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Vk3jed to Jared on Thu Jul 28 2022 19:42:00


    Just a quick hello from QF56oc, VK2WAY here in Sydney Australia

    Fancy seeing you here Jared. :D

    It's that omnipresence again :P
    It's not easy being Q.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Dave on Sat Jul 30 17:24:00 2022
    On 07-29-22 05:35, Dave wrote to Vk3jed <=-

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    That's an unfamiliar call. Hi Dave. :)

    Hi!
    Aussies coming out of the wood work all over the place. Great to see.

    Yep. I've been around the boards for years, though took a while off lately.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Daryl Stout on Sat Jul 30 17:25:00 2022
    On 07-29-22 11:51, Daryl Stout wrote to Vk3jed <=-

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    Tony,

    Fancy seeing you here Jared. :D

    It's more like "We've got to quit meeting like this...folks are going
    to talk". <G>

    Haha I'm beyond giving a rat's arse. :D


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Jared on Sat Jul 30 17:26:00 2022
    On 07-29-22 22:54, Jared wrote to Vk3jed <=-

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    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Vk3jed to Jared on Thu Jul 28 2022 19:42:00


    Just a quick hello from QF56oc, VK2WAY here in Sydney Australia

    Fancy seeing you here Jared. :D

    It's that omnipresence again :P
    It's not easy being Q.

    No, it isn't - remember who keeps popping up everywhere? ;)


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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Dave on Mon Aug 1 04:23:47 2022
    Re: Greetings!
    By: Dave to Jared on Sat Jul 30 2022 06:16:19

    I don't think we have. I don't do as much phone on HF as I should. COVID-related suboptimal station setup is my excuse. And by that, I mean I got my license during COVID and
    haven't
    yet ever had an experienced HAM around to tell me just how fubar my set up actually is. High noise floor. High tech house with LED everything (including the reef tank a few feet
    from
    me), rack full of server gear and a massive UPS on the other side of the wall. A few ferrites aren't quite enough for this job. Still, on occasion I manage a HF QSO that isn't old
    mate over the back fence who I've listened to while connected to a dummy load. If you do SSTV on 40m, you might have seen me about though. I do that from time to time if the
    conditions look like I have a hope of making it out of VK3.

    Well nice to meet you none the less! I'm on a ground floor CBD apartment on the edge of Sydney CBD.
    Licensed as a pandemic project.

    25 years of professional IT Infrastructure management.
    Smart house. (talk I gave on it a few years ago https://vk2way.id.au/posts/take-full-control/)

    and a talk I gave at Waverley ARS 2 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTv33RwxoDc (mostly DMR).

    I only do QRP HF.

    73,
    de VK2WAY
    Jared

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  • From Dave@VERT/BOFHNET to Jared on Tue Aug 2 11:38:11 2022
    Well nice to meet you none the less! I'm on a ground floor CBD apartment on the edge of Sydney CBD.
    Licensed as a pandemic project.

    25 years of professional IT Infrastructure management.
    Smart house. (talk I gave on it a few years ago https://vk2way.id.au/posts/take-full-control/)

    and a talk I gave at Waverley ARS 2 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTv33RwxoDc (mostly DMR).

    I only do QRP HF.

    73,
    de VK2WAY
    Jared

    Likewise. I'm stuck in suburbia with a dipole hung on a pair of flag poles along the boundary much to the neighbours disgust in Ballarat, so about an hour out of Melbourne.

    I'm a senior system administrator, and I deal with mainly hardware (all sitting in DCs) and *nix based systems... though my postgrad was all in cybersec. Will give your smart home video a watch when I get a chance. Straight off the bat from clicking, I see you're doing all the smart things - dedicated VLANs and such, so it's already speaking my language.

    I'll give the DMR video a watch when I get time too. I fiddled with it briefly when I started out but mostly ignored V/UHF as soon as I started getting somewhere with HF. WARS - I know who they are.. at least thanks to the powerpole kits :)

    73s
    Dave

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Dave on Tue Aug 2 19:23:00 2022
    On 08-02-22 11:38, Dave wrote to Jared <=-

    Likewise. I'm stuck in suburbia with a dipole hung on a pair of flag
    poles along the boundary much to the neighbours disgust in Ballarat, so about an hour out of Melbourne.

    You've both got more than me up. I had a 20/40m end fed, but it's fallen down and with a house move impending, there's no reason to put it back up for now. For the new place, I'm thinking of making an EFHW from scratch with a 49:1
    nun.


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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Dave on Tue Aug 2 22:51:34 2022
    Re: Greetings!
    By: Dave to Jared on Tue Aug 02 2022 11:38:11

    Likewise. I'm stuck in suburbia with a dipole hung on a pair of flag poles along the boundary much to the neighbours disgust in Ballarat, so about an hour out of Melbourne.

    I'll give the DMR video a watch when I get time too. I fiddled with it briefly when I started out but mostly ignored V/UHF as soon as I started getting somewhere with HF. WARS - I
    know who they are.. at least thanks to the powerpole kits :)

    Last weekend I did spend some time running a random wire along the building (I really dont have many options), it worked better than anything I'd done from the balcony before but still way less than ideal, I think the plan for now is to go a bit 3YE on it all and get pedestrian HF happening! I've only spent one afternoon on HF so far and that was from Queen Victoria park with VK2GPU.

    I have a little mobile hat antenna (recently replaced the yagi to make it a less obtrusive) on top an old cheap crappy camera monopole (which is cable tied to my balcony rail) which does a good job of local VHF/UHF for the most part, but the building is a faraday cage and there's 4 stories of noise generation above me in every direction.

    I note the name of your BBS and I highly approve.

    As for the ITSec stuff - I try to avoid that side of things these days, left enterprise for sports. The day job is primarilly a python software stack these days and I wear a silly "creative technologist" hat. We're primarilly a content studio with a sports focus, so the core platform is all realtime data to stadium IPTV, LED ribbon & superscreens, but in the last 5 years we've also built experiences in Unity using VR and motion-sensing (a VR cricket game and a running on the spot NRL game), built a full PoC IoT stack for a client from PCB/microcontroller and firmware to web UI (also a realtime dashboard, we got that gig because of our real time sports work). I like the variety. That led to the freelance work I do these days which is live graphics playout, vision mixing or replay operation for in-stadium game-day. Broadcast production is so heavily IT & IP focussed these days, the first thing we stand up in a temp venue is network! It also puts the thrill back into "working production" like we used to do... before DevOps came and made it boring (yes, I was responsible for much DevOps adoption, but it took the fun out running prod systems :P )

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    Jared

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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Daryl Stout on Tue Aug 9 11:18:32 2022
    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Daryl Stout to Vk3jed on Fri Jul 29 2022 11:51:00


    Fancy seeing you here Jared. :D

    It's more like "We've got to quit meeting like this...folks are going to talk". <G>

    They can save that 'til when we likely meet next year face to face!

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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Vk3jed on Tue Aug 9 11:19:25 2022
    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Vk3jed to Jared on Sat Jul 30 2022 17:26:00

    It's that omnipresence again :P
    It's not easy being Q.

    No, it isn't - remember who keeps popping up everywhere? ;)

    I do, don't I?

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Jared on Wed Aug 10 19:09:00 2022
    On 08-09-22 11:19, Jared wrote to Vk3jed <=-

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    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Vk3jed to Jared on Sat Jul 30 2022 17:26:00

    It's that omnipresence again :P
    It's not easy being Q.

    No, it isn't - remember who keeps popping up everywhere? ;)

    I do, don't I?

    Who kept getting mentioned in that presentation at WARS the other week? (I remember you pointing that out to me on Discord ;) ).


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Jared on Wed Aug 10 20:03:00 2022
    On 08-09-22 11:18, Jared wrote to Daryl Stout <=-

    @VIA: VERT/JUMPLEFT
    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Daryl Stout to Vk3jed on Fri Jul 29 2022 11:51:00


    Fancy seeing you here Jared. :D

    It's more like "We've got to quit meeting like this...folks are going to
    a
    lk". <G>

    They can save that 'til when we likely meet next year face to face!

    Haha yep, I really hope to get up to Sydney next year. :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Jared on Tue Aug 9 16:02:00 2022
    Jared,

    They can save that 'til when we likely meet next year face to face!

    Or you start talking about someone on the air, and they show up, as if
    their ears were burning.

    Then, you have the case where someone you haven't talked to in awhile
    shows up, and it's like "Look what crawled out of the woodwork!" (hi hi).

    Daryl, WX4QZ

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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Vk3jed on Thu Aug 11 01:43:23 2022
    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Vk3jed to Jared on Wed Aug 10 2022 19:09:00

    @VIA: VERT/JUMPLEFT
    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Vk3jed to Jared on Sat Jul 30 2022 17:26:00

    It's that omnipresence again :P
    It's not easy being Q.

    No, it isn't - remember who keeps popping up everywhere? ;)

    I do, don't I?

    Who kept getting mentioned in that presentation at WARS the other week? (I remember you pointing that out to me on Discord ;) ).


    Fair. But in my defense, I was giving the presentation, it would have been strange to refer to myself appearing everywhere in the 3rd person. You made a good substitute :P :P :P

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  • From Jared@VERT/JUMPLEFT to Daryl Stout on Thu Aug 11 01:49:33 2022
    Re: Re: Greetings!
    By: Daryl Stout to Jared on Tue Aug 09 2022 16:02:00

    They can save that 'til when we likely meet next year face to face!

    Or you start talking about someone on the air, and they show up, as if their ears were burning.

    Then, you have the case where someone you haven't talked to in awhile shows up, and it's like "Look what crawled out of the woodwork!" (hi hi).

    That's usually me.. I have a reputation for being on the side anytime anyone mentions my name and have me pop up and say 'g'day' when they're done talking about me :D :D

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Jared on Thu Aug 11 20:01:00 2022
    On 08-11-22 01:43, Jared wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Fair. But in my defense, I was giving the presentation, it would have been strange to refer to myself appearing everywhere in the 3rd person. You made a good substitute :P :P :P

    Excuses, excuses. :P


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Jared on Thu Aug 11 11:50:00 2022
    Jared,

    Then, you have the case where someone you haven't talked to in awhile shows up, and it's like "Look what crawled out of the woodwork!" (hi hi).

    That's usually me.. I have a reputation for being on the side anytime anyone mentions my name and have me pop up and say 'g'day' when they're done talking about me :D :D

    When they talk about me, they are leaving someone else alone. (hi hi).

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