Copasetic Flow

  The weather finally started to cool down a bit the day before LosterCon started. We had plenty of sun, but it wasn’t baking hot.  The campground, where LobsterCon was held, Thomas Point Beach and Campground, was clean and well appointed, maybe too clean. There were no rocks laying about that would fit in the end of the tarred twine spools, so we wound up launching the antenna using pine cone stoppers. We had plenty of nice, flat ground for our two tents, and managed to get Project TouCans about 20 ft up between a pair of pine trees. TouCans made two QSOs during LobstserCon, but the really nice part was all the in-person QSOs getting to hang out with everyone.  KO6BTY and Tawnse diagrammed TouCans on the nearby beach the first evening. Later that night, the rig reached KF9VV in Wisconsin.  The night after that, I made a short DX QSO with M7LLS. Then, we had lobster! So much lobster! During the flea market, we got to check out new and old kits from W1REX of QRPMe . ...

 We headed from Boston down to Philadelphia. Yeah, I know, that's no way to get to Maine, but when my partner and I were doing grad studies at Brookhaven on Long Island, Phillie was one of our favorite hangouts, so here we are! With all the mapping Cesium has enabled of late, we were pretty tickled to get to visit their headquarters here in town. We got to demo our mapping tool that works with Datasette, and then got to ask questions about Cesium as well. Turns out the small object we frequently notice on the horizon is the Moon! From there, we headed to Isgro near Christian and 10th. Armed with delicious pastries, we wandered up and down 9th St. checking all the other delicious things! A few hours later, Paesano's became our favorite place in town for pasta. We've had lunch there twice now, and just, oh my gosh, the food is so good! Another day, a little further down 9th St., we found $5 cooked crabs and demolished them! I didn't understand why they asked if we wanted...

We're on the East Coast! KO6BTY, myself, and the 9 year-old, (known on the internets as Tawnse), flew out to Boston from San Francisco yesterday. We walked out of the airport to the ferry terminal! That's so cool! You can walk to a ferry from the airport. But do you know what we did then? We didn't take a ferry, we took a water taxi to a different ferry terminal! So many cool things already! Here's the view from the water taxi. We landed at Rowes Wharf which seems to be one of the fanciest wharf's in Boston, so.. yeah. From there we caught the ferry southeast to Hingham  and from there made it to our camp site at Wompatuck State Park. We're now making our war around via public transit taking the T back in to Boston South Station to catch a train from South Station into Philadelphia. Meanwhile! KO6BTY and I have had Cesium maps built into our QSO log for a few months now—ever since the day Simon Wilison nonchalantly pointed out that Datasette queries are URLs i...