John Worsnop
@g4bao.bsky.social
Chartered Engineer, former wage slave, Radio Amateur, Moonbouncer, RadCom GHz bands columnist, radio propagation nerd and RF PA design nut.
Fragrant Viburnum absolutely bossing it in the corner of my #FenEdge garden this mild winter morning. The scent is almost overpowering!
December 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Fragrant Viburnum absolutely bossing it in the corner of my #FenEdge garden this mild winter morning. The scent is almost overpowering!
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Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911.
After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡
Image: NRAO
After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡
Image: NRAO
December 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911.
After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡
Image: NRAO
After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡
Image: NRAO
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"The policy will be not have a policy, and that will be flexible"
Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions
Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions
MPs press minister for answers – and get few
If UK readers are perplexed by the country's seemingly shambolic state of broadband and telecoms, relative to other European nations, insight can be gleaned from a one-off evidence session conducted by Parliament.…
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December 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"The policy will be not have a policy, and that will be flexible"
Auschwitz - Birkenau 16 December 2025 Oswiecim, Poland
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Auschwitz - Birkenau 16 December 2025 Oswiecim, Poland
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"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right." ― Martin Luther King Jr
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right." ― Martin Luther King Jr
👍👍👍👍
Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
👍👍👍👍
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I’m so sick of stuff...
Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy
Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume
And now we’re obedient little little lemmings
Read my rant here...
open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...
Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy
Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume
And now we’re obedient little little lemmings
Read my rant here...
open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...
I’m So Sick of Stuff...
From M&S sausage roll garlands to subscription traps - how capitalism turned us into obedient little lemmings.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I’m so sick of stuff...
Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy
Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume
And now we’re obedient little little lemmings
Read my rant here...
open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...
Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy
Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume
And now we’re obedient little little lemmings
Read my rant here...
open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...
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MYYYYY GOD MISS JONES
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
MYYYYY GOD MISS JONES
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You need some lemons on that, Vlad
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
You need some lemons on that, Vlad
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“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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Nearly the weekend! Pondering whether to have a play in CQWW CW…
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Nearly the weekend! Pondering whether to have a play in CQWW CW…
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
2/2 The plot shows two feint signal tracks PE9GHZ (Goes) left and PA3GCO (Rotterdam) right, and the much stronger GB3PKT (Clacton) on the right
WebSDR url trig01.ddns.net:8073
WebSDR url trig01.ddns.net:8073
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
2/2 The plot shows two feint signal tracks PE9GHZ (Goes) left and PA3GCO (Rotterdam) right, and the much stronger GB3PKT (Clacton) on the right
WebSDR url trig01.ddns.net:8073
WebSDR url trig01.ddns.net:8073
Last night's rain over the southern North Sea gave some nice 24GHz rainscatter propagation from the PE9GHZ and PA3GCO beacons on the Margate WebSDR (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Last night's rain over the southern North Sea gave some nice 24GHz rainscatter propagation from the PE9GHZ and PA3GCO beacons on the Margate WebSDR (1/2)
Rare one just worked just now on 30m doodle mode.
ZL7/LZ1GC.
My only other QSO with Chatham Island was with ZL7DK in 1998 on 40m CW
ZL7/LZ1GC.
My only other QSO with Chatham Island was with ZL7DK in 1998 on 40m CW
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Rare one just worked just now on 30m doodle mode.
ZL7/LZ1GC.
My only other QSO with Chatham Island was with ZL7DK in 1998 on 40m CW
ZL7/LZ1GC.
My only other QSO with Chatham Island was with ZL7DK in 1998 on 40m CW
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Is it 'wanking'?
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Is it 'wanking'?
That was a bit too easy! 9L8MD Sierra Leone worked on 24.898MHz CW up 2 2nd Call. They're now calling CQ
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
That was a bit too easy! 9L8MD Sierra Leone worked on 24.898MHz CW up 2 2nd Call. They're now calling CQ
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The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?
The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?
No, it's just good at mass-production copy and paste. And yes, we're correctly applying Betteridge's Law
Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same mistake. Chatbots don't think – they've just gotten exponentially better at pretending.…
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October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?