Nice! I did the exact same thing. Remote exam in my bathroom. Congrats on the tech and general. If you plan on the extra, do it before you forget anything from the general because there's a lot of carry over from the test.

Once the dead rat and blood wall were cleaned up, the stream really went down hill

I feel like every year since I’ve been licensed and an ARRL member, I’ve become less enthused by the ARRL. To the point where this may be my last year as a member.

Also a thought: I use a few ARRL links in our side bar I wouldn’t mind changing to non-ARRL links. Open to suggestions.

It's a blast to play. Took about 6 tries to finish the game. The difficulty spike at the end is kinda crazy. Definitely recommend getting it before/if Nintendo takes it down.

In total, it's not something I'm having an issue paying. I'm not a fan of talking about my personal life, but I did get laid off about 6 months ago so it is an expense for me, but I think something is just around the corner. Moving to a new place soon and have a job lined up that should help.

BUT... since you asked, and I don't have any plans to put up a KoFi or whatever to ask for donations, our instance currently:

• linode server: $144/month
• .radio TLD: $30/year
• email $10/month

So not too bad, not great either. After I've moved and things settle down, my goal is to try to migrate our photos to AWS and downgrade us to a server that's back at ~$75.

I appreciate the ask, but we're good for now! I enjoy running this instance and seeing everyone use it.

~w0odl

Ha I have almost the same story. Grandfather talking to people on his radio all day, missing dinner, and my grandma getting mad at him. He's one of the reasons I got into ham radio! Thanks for sharing your story!

Good time to look over @SignullGone’s post to help write to your reps/senators

https://lemmy.world/post/2205890

I know this sort of article has been posted to death since yesterday, but I find it helpful when bigger media outlets covers it :)

I believe he said he would volunteer names and government entities who were behind the spending and coverups. He also mentioned an actual answer to what "non-human biological" meant and where certain UAPs were being housed.

He did actually bring up that his knowledge of events went back to the 1930s... which I'm assuming is that theory.

Yes, they were under oath. Link to the video and timestamped of the oath: https://www.youtube.com/live/KQ7Dw-739VY?feature=share&t=2506

It's definitely been low-covered in the media here in the states. It sort of got big a few weeks ago when a very small, almost unknown newstation called "News Nation" picked up the Grusch interview. It was covered heavily there, but... no one watches that channel.

Afterwards, some of the big stations picked it up and some newspapers too, but it was forgotten pretty quickly. Unless you were already in this "circle of information", you probably wouldn't have heard about it. Maybe it'll get picked up after today (but probably forgotten about by Friday)