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mzerod

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About mzerod

- Former admin/creator/designer/code etc of modarchive.org - Voice of Meow Meow Meow Kitty Song ft. In various Roblox games (mostly stolen, exception is FindTheCats). - Ham radio HF datacomm specialist & keeping packet radio on life support http://github.com/pe1rrr - https://eindhoven.space/radio-experiments/packet-radio/

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    I have a QPSK & BPSK packet radio link to several other stations via the QO-100 satellite narrowband transponder, using a couple of Pluto SDRs and in some cases a mix/match of RTL …

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    Comment #37380666

    Jester - Stardust Otamatonies https://youtu.be/dfFVxWEwhI0?si=r-ZtYmgF1ADp0k8e

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    Comment #36598893

    Aww yiss. Nederkunst. Thats amazing and also kinda wtf because drunken parties are the norm, so cultural alcoholism is a bonus.

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    Comment #36287196

    The Modarchive[0] is still around, too. The reviewer’s (shared) password used to be since1996 [0] http://modarchive.org

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    Comment #35781994

    (This message has been read 1 times so far in this BBS). Path: !CX2SA!N6RME!KE6JJJ!KQ6UP!AA6HF!N2NOV!W4BFB!N0NJY!WA3WLH!W9GM!WA2UET! !K5DAT!W0ARP!KF5JRV! We’re still using their co…

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    Comment #35648807

    I’ve felt this way for a considerable time too. In retrospect, it has now been ten years and yet still nothing has really changed, which I am kinda glad.

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    Comment #35269840

    A friend of mine is building a Raspberry Pi ISA board so I’ll have to ping him on how it’s going.

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    Comment #34966481

    I had one of these type of jackets and quickly found that they set off IR-controlled hand wash taps in the toilet facilities at a certain airport. 10/10, would recommend for very c…

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    Comment #34786048

    Stunning stuff. The dark sunspot in the foreground and the one behind the tangle of plasma is intruiging.

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    Comment #34782077

    Keeping an eye on this http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/fullday/ for the effects on the HF radio band, it might be quite interesting.

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    Comment #34689149

    I’ve created a portal in bash to allow HF access to emergency web content, here’s a demo of it going 900km loading HN. https://youtu.be/5CN1nD_xciU

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    Comment #34689117

    This is mild pedantry from me, sorry. Fortunately, the 10m band these days has a reach of up to 11000km due to the solar activity. You are quite right that during LOS conditions it…

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    Comment #34689063

    Digital Data Comms if needed: Dial frequency 14.1023 USB - at 1000Hz and 2000Hz for AFSK.300 (two channels for multiple access) - at 1500Hz for VARA or ARDOP OFDM EMCOM Services av…

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    Comment #34569548

    My time to shine- this is for anyone concerned about ham operation in Ukraine https://eindhoven.space/2022/10/08/ham-radio-usage-in-ukrain...

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    Comment #34553450

    >The programmer friends' idea, unfortunately, was beaten by modarchive.org many years ago. Sorry about that :-) Glad the API has come I handy though, your thing looks very nice, bu…

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    Comment #34223216

    This is mine: https://github.com/pe1rrr/packet-scriptlets/tree/main/games

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    Comment #33297496

    Mod4Win followed shortly, dazzling us with native audio output on our 3.1 windows boxes

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    Comment #33296639

    The chip scene has indeed grown in scale since the 2000s began, I shared a few beers with the guy who did the Commodordion and he’s one of many reaching youth with what I think man…

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    Comment #33296545

    Give a few days until the tsunami of hackerhearts abates and give signing up/in a shot and upload them. The folks are always open looking for new crew too to help in the upkeep suc…

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    Comment #33295765

    This is essentially how I put together this gem: https://eindhoven.space/demoscene-stuff/joke-music/stardust-... Achieved by deleting the lead instrument from the module and playin…

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    Comment #33295757

    In milkytracker FT2 clone it is possible to draw your own samples to create basic instruments, most of the stuff for instruments is indeed samples often ripped from other modules a…

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    Comment #33295468

    Thanks for the hug of death HN :-) Unfortunately the folks taking care of the hosting aren’t yet aware of the problem as it is sleepy time here in EU. In the mid 2000s I built the …