Amateur radio enthusiasts sometimes organize a "fox hunt." A radio transmitter in an undisclosed location periodically broadcasts a signal on some frequency and participants use a directional antenna, a compass, and other tools to triangulate the transmitter's location.

Yesterday, the Boulder Amateur Radio Club organized a bit of a "reverse fox ( Read more... )

When communicating over a noisy voice channel, like a two-way radio or a poor phone connection, it's useful to using a spelling alphabet to make key words extra clear. While many people on the phone use the first English name that comes to mind ("P as in Peter, H as in Harold, O as in Olivia, N as in Nancy, E as in Eve"), the lack of a standard ( Read more... )

In April, Burning Man announced that Black Rock City would not be built in 2021. I'd been holding out hope that the COVID recovery would be looking promising enough to make the event possible, and I'd been mentally preparing to spend a couple weeks wearing fashionable dust masks and experimenting with post-pandemic community creation.

My first ( Read more... )