A recent and ongoing outage in Spain, Portugal highlights the need for Amateur radio and backup electricity – as of now, 1pm April 28, the ongoing outage is affecting Spain and Portugal, and several amateur radio groups have been responding to “share situational awareness information”.
Continue reading “Massive electricity outage in Spain, Portugal highlight need for Amateur Radio, backup FM radio receivers.”Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival
The annual Humboldt Math Festival is happening April 26 in Eureka! If you are near Northern California, plan to check this out and see a new game I made that combines climbing and numbers… Check out their promo video below:
Continue reading “Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival”Mathematician models impact of defunding USAID, Medicaid
A Boston University PHD researcher Brooke Nichols has recently been building a dashboard estimating potential deaths in response to restricting aid and medication from recent policy change. The dashboard is available here.
Continue reading “Mathematician models impact of defunding USAID, Medicaid”Encouraging News for Mathematically Minded Environmentalists
Last year a report found that isolated indigenous groups have been found to have lives just as happy as many groups in highly developed nations. The lead author stated “I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis.”
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As you may know there are well known free repeater apps that are widely used for ham radio repeater info, but there are several reasons to try the premium repeaterSTART app: (currently on sale for 14.99 $4.99, biggest sale of the year…):
AI Attempts at Ham Radio Help
There has been much research in recent months making LLMs give helpful and useful information. Unfortunately it is often wrong or inaccurate. Today I show how some simple tasks for radio amateurs are given back with incorrect information in Claude, ChatGPT and Bing AI assistant:
Continue reading “AI Attempts at Ham Radio Help”Kv4p HT app brings 2-meter Ham Radio to Android Phones
If you have been involved in amateur radio groups you may have noted the new popular kv4p HT project that many have been talking about. This app and USBC-connected radio chip let you use your phone as a small ham radio handheld!
Continue reading “Kv4p HT app brings 2-meter Ham Radio to Android Phones”Repeater Activity during emergencies
Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected by the recent storms on the US East coast. Recently some live streams have highlighted the good work by the ham radio repeater operators and emergency nets:
Continue reading “Repeater Activity during emergencies”Coming up at Panhandle Preparedness Expo!
The Panhandle preparedness expo is coming up next weekend! What will you find at the preparedness expo?
Continue reading “Coming up at Panhandle Preparedness Expo!”Recent Outages Highlight Need for Ham Radio, Multiple Emergency Communications.
Earlier this month, both AT&T and Verizon had a texting and calling cell phone outage – even the FCC noted that this was happening in multiple states! Similar issues have happened in February and at other times. In the recent New Mexico, 29 out of 113 cell towers were down and this is a common issue among areas with natural disasters. This highlights the need for other channels of communication, even when you are in town and normally have a working cell phone:
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