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James Patterson

James Patterson

@m1dst.bsky.social

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Coding C# by day and amateur radio by night. M1DST/M1N. Keen contester.

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James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Jan 14

Now all good.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Jan 14

When you mentioned not seeing it, I looked closer and saw a flash as the page loaded. Chrome is mistaking the page for Portuguese and translating it to English. No idea why. I've told Chrome not to translate the site now. This should fix it. Meta tags might help prevent this, but could cause issues.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Jan 14

DXCC Charts

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Jan 14

DX charts, click on a band slot. It pops up a list of QSOs.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Jan 13

@clublog.org Is this a typo in the mode? Looks like it should be Data, not Date.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

Wow - Some new UK legislation that seems to be well written and will really make a difference to consumer security. This is now UK law as of 29th April.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

I’ve seen it all now. Competitive Excel in the esports style. If we don’t nail this properly in WRTC 2026 then I’ll be massively disappointed! @2026Wrtc

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

What a great advent calendar for a tinkerer/maker. Was given it this morning. A quick project per day will be fun.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: J88IH (SAINT VINCENT) 17M Data [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: 5W1SA (SAMOA) 15M Data [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: 7Q7EMH (MALAWI) 15M Data [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: HP1RY (PANAMA) 15M Data [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: D2UY (ANGOLA) 15M Data [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: V31DL (BELIZE) 15M Data [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: XV1X (VIET NAM) 17M Data [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: EL3P (LIBERIA) 15M Phone [M1DST] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCC worked: EL3P (LIBERIA) 15M Phone [M1N] #clublog

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

I had my first 122GHz contact this evening with G6UAJ across the car park for a distance of 100m. Proves everything works. We plan some longer tests to see what range we can achieve. Paul has a dish, I’m just using a horn.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

New DXCCs wkd: TO5M (SAINT MARTIN) 40M Phone, T6A (AFGHANISTAN) 20M Phone, OJ0DX (MARKET REEF) 20M Phone + more [M1DST]

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

No FTTP for me today. The @CityFibre guys turned up, warned it would be a big job, and then claimed they only have 2 guns between 6 teams so wouldn't be able to blow the fibre and thus there was no point installing today. "Do the best you can" his bosses said.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

Rewound some 80m trifilar inductors today. Much neater than the last set I wound a decade ago. Let’s hope these are closer to the centre frequency than the last lot.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

Looks like the German national warning test worked as expected. A few seconds early but certainly caught my attention.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

If I mute the words Elon and Twitter, I wonder if there will be anything left in my stream. It feels like all the tweets are tracking the craziness. It might be like the early days of Twitter when nobody was really on the platform yet.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

14 years on Twitter and I held out joining despite tracking its uptake for much longer. Doing the same with Mastodon. Not putting any effort in to moving. Watching and waiting.

James Patterson @m1dst.bsky.social · Nov 20

This is going well @tsohost. Have all your servers gone down at the same time?