Normal view
THE WILDERNESS AS YOUR RECEIVER & THE DUALITY OF HAM RADIO
-
This Week in Amateur Radio
- A century of service and signals: 100-year-old ham radio enthusiast, teacher marks milestone (North Carolina)
A century of service and signals: 100-year-old ham radio enthusiast, teacher marks milestone (North Carolina)
via HACKADAY: Hacking a Quansheng Handheld To Transmit Digital Modes
Useless websites
Certain websites are becoming terrible these days and for no reason other, I suspect than poor or non-existent testing.
I am actually trying to buy a cooker hood. I made a shortlist of 4, one poor, three ok. I went with one from a company but when I got to the ordering screen it wanted to add nearly Β£15 for delivery. This had not been made clear before. So, the second choice was from Amazon, free delivery. I tried to order this in Safari on the Mac but, after logging in and adding the OTP code I got a blank screen. So I tried via the DuckDuckGo browser β same thing, a blank screen. Plenty of code, pages of scripts and obfuscated stuff, just nothing rendered. I resorted to the Amazon app and this time Amazon told me the product cannot be delivered to our address. No explanation.
Anyway, goodbye Amazon. Again. I actually ditched Amazon when as a Prime user paying annually they decided they were going to inject adverts into films even though I was paying for Prime. I ended up paying the delivery charge with the other company.
KLM is another infuriating site. I can do everything but select a flight when I use Safari or Brave on the Mac. If I want to actually fly with KLM I need to use the DuckDuckGo browser. Go figure.
I used to work with web designers and project managers, good ones, and so I know a bit about user testing and stuff. The fact that this appears severely lacking in some quite major websites is amusing, but with no way to feed back to said sites exactly how useless their sites are it will not improve. Oh well.
Anyway, none of this is radio related!
Via the ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers
AmateurLogic 194: Field Day 2024
via HACKADAY: Decoding Meshtastic with GNU Radio
Ham College 114
Ham College 113
-
This Week in Amateur Radio
- Via the ARRL: Colorado Teacher and Ham Accepted to the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program
Via the ARRL: Colorado Teacher and Ham Accepted to the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program
Via the ARRL: 2024 ARRL Field Day is Here!
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1321 β Full Version
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1320 β Full Version
Ham College 114
A Wiki for Open Source in Amateur Radio
Ham College 113
AmateurLogic 193: Dayton Hamvention 2024
-
This Week in Amateur Radio
- Fobos SDR Is a High Quality Radio for Hobbyists, Researchers, and Professionals