Supposed to be freezing and rainy here. Not sure I’ll make it out to a park, but I’ll try my best to hunt for y’all!

tracking is mostly done via software. the airplane, satellite, boat, etc will have some way of transmitting data (lat/long, speed, weather data…) and a receiving station (for instance, a computer a ham operator controls) will pick up that transmission and usually post it somewhere. An example would be something like APRS

Ham operators themselves can track in a way. When you are communicating with another ham, you will usually give your callsign, location, other pertinent info, and then you can log/record that you talked to someone from a certain area.

GREAT answer. It’s funny how I got into ham radio because I thought it seemed a cool way to talk to people… and now I almost never use voice and mostly do what you listed above.

Wow they really need to get in check. I do have the screenshots

I guess Andy or the proton social media team has started using the corporate bluesky account to discuss it now.

https://bsky.app/profile/proton.me/post/3lfrqm6wpzs2p

Yes, you must pass the general exam before taking the amateur extra exam.

Ha sorry. Forgot mentioning the account from another service would create a post here. But still happy to see y’all!

I just moved everything from goodreads to bookwyrm and it was painless.

I’ve had sats/ISS on my list of things to learn for a while. Maybe 2025 will be the year I get that yagi built.