Quite the week for "radio hobbyists knowing what is going on"

1. ham radio amateur discovers Starlink using out-of-band, unpermitted downlink frequencies

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal?

2. ham radio amateur pinpoints the weather balloon that nailed UAL1093

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115410089015816867

3. ham radio amateur's website determines what is being deployed by US military to Venezuela
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/19/world/us-military-build-up-caribbean-trump-pressures-venezuela

#hamradio

Quite the week for "radio hobbyists knowing what is going on"

1. ham radio amateur discovers Starlink using out-of-band, unpermitted downlink frequencies

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal?

2. ham radio amateur pinpoints the weather balloon that nailed UAL1093

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115410089015816867

3. ham radio amateur's website determines what is being deployed by US military to Venezuela
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/10/19/world/us-military-build-up-caribbean-trump-pressures-venezuela

#hamradio

One of my favourite features of the #fediverse is seeing people *learning things*. There are so many folks here discovering dying arts and trades. People learning how the things we take for granted work, and endeavouring to implement them themselves!

People getting their #HAMradio licenses, #selfhosting, making clothing, blacksmithing, gardening, repairing their own things, backporting modern software to run on windows 3.11...

Y'all are my people. Never stop learning, and never stop sharing what you've learned.

One of my favourite features of the #fediverse is seeing people *learning things*. There are so many folks here discovering dying arts and trades. People learning how the things we take for granted work, and endeavouring to implement them themselves!

People getting their #HAMradio licenses, #selfhosting, making clothing, blacksmithing, gardening, repairing their own things, backporting modern software to run on windows 3.11...

Y'all are my people. Never stop learning, and never stop sharing what you've learned.