Radio Transcription

AG7LR

Yeah, I'm here and I do have a report on the Slow Scan TV and unfortunately it's still not being transmitted. I haven't heard any passes and according to AMSAT, no one else has received either. There was apparently a few brief transmissions right at the start of the event that cut out. According to the ARISS Mastodon account, it looks like they have been trying to contact the crew and get them to fix it, but nothing has come of that yet, so hopefully they will get it restarted at some point here. But let's see, other than that, I modified one of my battery packs today. Ordered a 65 watt USB PD charger and installed it in there so I can use it to charge my laptop now. It's just a smaller battery pack. It's a 12 amp hour lithium iron phosphate battery stuffed in a 30 cal ammo can. And now it'll run my laptop and I did buy a USB soldering iron so I wanted to be able to run that off of there as well and solder stuff when I'm away from my workbench without having to use one of the old Weller soldering guns. It looks like the charger thing works pretty well on there. It's a little noisy, but that's to be expected for the cost. There's only a few models available that will actually put out the 20 volts from a 12-volt input, and the other two models are from PowerWorks, and they're like 40 or 50 bucks, so it'll be a cheaper one. I wouldn't mind getting one of the new PowerWorks ones, though. They now have one that'll do 100 watts from a 12-volt input. But they've been sold out on those since they put them on the website. That's all I got for now. 73, everyone. AG7LR, back to bed.