Subj : Greetings!
To   : Dave
From : Jared
Date : Tue Aug 02 2022 22:51:34

  Re: Greetings!
  By: Dave to Jared on Tue Aug 02 2022 11:38:11

 > Likewise. I'm stuck in suburbia with a dipole hung on a pair of flag poles along the boundary much to the neighbours disgust in Ballarat, so about an hour out of Melbourne.
 >
 > I'll give the DMR video a watch when I get time too. I fiddled with it briefly when I started out but mostly ignored V/UHF as soon as I started getting somewhere with HF. WARS - I
 > know who they are.. at least thanks to the powerpole kits :)

Last weekend I did spend some time running a random wire along the building (I really dont have many options), it worked better than anything I'd done from the balcony before but still way less than ideal, I think the plan for now is to go a bit 3YE on it all and get pedestrian HF happening!    I've only spent one afternoon on HF so far and that was from Queen Victoria park with VK2GPU.

I have a little mobile hat antenna (recently replaced the yagi to make it a less obtrusive) on top an old cheap crappy camera monopole (which is cable tied to my balcony rail) which does a good job of local VHF/UHF for the most part, but the building is a faraday cage and there's 4 stories of noise generation above me in every direction.

I note the name of your BBS and I highly approve.

As for the ITSec stuff - I try to avoid that side of things these days, left enterprise for sports.   The day job is primarilly a python software stack these days and I wear a silly "creative technologist" hat.    We're primarilly a content studio with a sports focus, so the core platform is all realtime data to stadium IPTV, LED ribbon & superscreens, but in the last 5 years we've also built experiences in Unity using VR and motion-sensing (a VR cricket game and a running on the spot NRL game), built a full PoC IoT stack for a client from PCB/microcontroller and firmware to web UI (also a realtime dashboard, we got that gig because of our real time sports work).  I like the variety.   That led to the freelance work I do these days which is live graphics playout, vision mixing or replay operation for in-stadium game-day.   Broadcast production is so heavily IT & IP focussed these days, the first thing we stand up in a temp venue is network!  It also puts the thrill back into "working production" like we used to do... before DevOps came and made it boring (yes, I was responsible for much DevOps adoption, but it took the fun out running prod systems :P )

de VK2WAY
Jared

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