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SKCC Straight Key Month: I Made A QSO!

 I've spent a lot of time getting Project TouCans' straight key back up and running better than ever before this month, and it finally paid off! I made a QSO with N2KPJ this morning! That's San Francisco to New York on 5 Watts! Hopefully I'll have a video QSL later, but in the mean time, There's a look at the station as it appeared this morning, indoors and everything! (Well, I was indoors. The rig was still outside.) Videos I've also cleaned up my dit/dah timing in a week's worth of practice . Here's my latest:

QSO Mapping Datasette Use Case

 Back in November, I pushed a datasette plugin to the rm-rbn-history repository that used Jinja and the existing table of QSO coordinates that's also housed in the repository to create kml maps based on Datasette queries.  Here's a video of the latest use case: applying for the SKCC 1,000 Miles per Watt Award In the video I demonstrate the following: Creating a histogram of QSOs by date Querying QSOs by date range to isolate a single day Creating a KML map that loads into Google Earth installed on a Chromebook