“Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.

same here. Proton with own domain!

Only HF these days, 40 through 10. Was active on satellites, not so much now. 2 m is dead in my vicinity. The weekly net prioritises checkins from Echolink over RF and that’s a dealbreaker for me.

Will go back on satellites when HF conditions deteriorate. 73

I use Diamond SP1000 inline lightning protector

TIL - there is something called Gopher and Gemini. Looks interesting, will read more on it.

Unless I am travelling, I usually wear (wash & repeat) 4 shirts, two shorts and one pair of jeans. For travelling, I have extra clothes as its not always possible to do laundry when you are hopping cities every one or two days.

A very well written post. I got my license and for over a decade was inactive. Some, not so good folks ridiculed me for wasting a license whereas there were others who helped me by loaning a radio, setting up an antenna at my QTH. Still, life happened and I couldn’t sustain. It was only last year when I started again. There was a lot of hesitation and I was indeed was afriad of making mistakes. I froze up during my first CW contact. I had decided to enjoy the hobby and that’s what I did. Getting on the air is key. Even with compromised setups, stuff works! 73 de VU2TUM

India to Chile ~17000 km. Sent QSL via post to ham radio stations I worked last year.

Hi. Thanks for collating information about various member societies. Here in India, ARSI folks are more connected to fellow hams via whatsapp and there is a groups.io and this doesn’t make it easy for new comers or people interested to get into ham radio. What’s ironic is that ARSI is headquartered in Bangalore, India’s silicon valley and they could certainly do a much better job.

I just returned back home from a trip and yes the signals are still there as of 10 minutes back. They can be heard on my websdr https://websdr.vu2tum.com/

Like others said, such methods will not help achieve proficiency in morse. One needs to learn and associate sound patterns rather than dits and dahs

Its back now

Step 1. Get your own domain. I bought from porkbun. This was a difficult choice for me, having heard /read cases of domain hijacking by unethical domain sellers. Porkbun had decent reviews. Step2. Follow instructions on protonmail custom domains. Wait for all the greyed out tags to turn green. I was impatient and my domain was marked as spam by Spamhaus. Had to open ticket with them to get off their list step3: enjoy!

additional steps. I moved my dns provider to cloudflare if you wish to go that route.

Thanks for maintaining this server. 73 VU2TUM

These signals are being heard in VU as well. I have been seeing chatter on Whatsapp groups about these to the extent that 40m nets have shifted up. It will be interesting to geolocate the source of these signals based on a regional triangulation. Some folks are saying these are of China origin, others say they are from Israel or Iran.

Of course, what they decode into is yet another mystery at the moment.