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Voyager is nearly a drop-in replacement for Alien Blue.

My first thought was Lupus.

In the US at least, the constitutional requirements for being elected to the presidency do not prevent felons from being elected, and there are good arguments for this. A weaponized judicial system can be used to oust or prevent political opponents from gaining the presidency.

It’s a Neutron Cat.

In Amateur Radio, if our first calls are not received correctly, most experienced operators will switch up and use alternates for troublesome phonetics. America for Alpha, Germany for Golf, Kilowatt for Kilo. Some folks even use amusing ones. I once heard an American station using “Kentucky Fried Chicken” for their callsign ending in KFC.

I’ve never discussed this before.

Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine came close:

Betteridge’s Law

In short: No.

One of the best no-noise locations I ever did was in a fully powered-down sailboat in the southern lagoon at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas. Leaky consumer electronics are the worst.

To contrast, I managed to work Indonesia from Alamogordo NM despite being in a residential neighborhood, HVAC capacitors and foreign over-the-horizon-radar (OTHR) be damned. Taught me a lot about being patient and picking out transmissions in the noise.

Did it work?

I don’t doubt they would be able to figure it out, but we must at least acknowledge it’s not plug-and-play. If one doesn’t know their way around, paper maps take some planning. The paper map won’t announce the next upcoming turn in 2 miles. It definitely takes some learning to use.

I was curious to see if someone has ever documented this experience and I was rewarded with this video: https://youtu.be/sr9hQ_tDLP0

*General Delivery in the US.

[Name]
GENERAL DELIVERY
[City, State ZIP]

Be certain the post office you select provides general delivery services.

I use this a lot.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-General-Delivery

There are valid arguments for knowing how to use a paper map. We’re fortunate that GPS was opened up to the world, and we’ve flourished for it, but one very bad solar storm and it’s possible we’ll be back to paper for regional and farther navigation.

Put a daylight sensor in line with one of the leads with a cutoff some percentage higher than the cutoff of the device.

And 10m Amateur Techs!

Mesmerizing. There was more than a few hilarious on-screen text which made me chuckle. Thank you for this.

I browse in the restroom before returning to the cockpit.

The article glosses over the outrage of the frivolous DMCA takedown in 2021 and the subsequent restart of the stream, a “new” one technically, a few days later but still officially LoFi Girl on the same channel.

Soviet Russia

No no, in Soviet Russia, beans count you.