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So Many Projects!

 I found an awesome presentation by Simon Willison at DjangoConUS yesterday. It talks all about how to manage multiple personal projects using things like code repositories, testing, issue threads, and documentation, all things near and dear to my heart. The first question though? How does one shoehorn a physical antenna into a code repository? There's a way! (I just have to figure it out.)

And there is programming to be done for the unit test of the antenna! Using the reverse beacon network, I can count the number of rows corresponding to spots of the Rockmite. If there's one or more, the antenna test passed. If not, it failed.

I want to be able to answer questions like the following: I was just operating at 6:00 AM PST on the 20 meter band under rain clouds using 250 mW at 14057 MHz. None of the reverse beacon network spotted me. Is it because the radio couldn't pierce the clouds, or because the ionosphere isn't ready yet, which the following resultls from that time would weem to support (blue dots are spotted stations)



Blue dots are spotted stations, (all to the East of the grey line in the last half hour.)


And here's the rockmite repository!


Here's the video that inspired all of this.





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