Current Bluesky Feeds:
The feeds are hosted by skyfeed.app. Cooking up search patterns for these feeds is always going to involve compromises. Sometimes content will be missed, sometimes there will be false positives and unrelated stuff will show up. I adjust the filters as these things come up, but there will always be new ones. Bottom line; keeping these feeds on topic is ongoing work. They will probably never be perfect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Feeds you might be interested in:
- Amateur / Ham Radio This is my original feed that tries to bring in various ham radio related topics, including Shortwave, SDR, etc, but exclude sources that post a lot of repetitive content. Essentially it's the type of stuff I like to see every day. Not included in this feed: Automated QSO logging, advertisers, and sources that mostly post lots of links to content elsewhere.
- Ham Radio+Links feeds This combines the "Amateur / Ham Radio" and "Ham Radio article links" feeds. This will have more traffic than Amateur / Ham Radio.
- Ham/Amateur Radio MAX MAXIMUM traffic. So, quite a lot of traffic. Combines:
- Amateur / Ham Radio
- Ham Radio article links
- Amateur / Ham Radio Logs
- Ham Radio Advertising
The feeds below mainly exist to feed into the above feeds:
- Ham Radio article links This feed contains the aforementioned 'sources that mainly post lots of links to content elsewhere' as well as sources of often repetitive content. It is included in Ham Radio+Links feeds and Ham/Amateur Radio MAX.
- Amateur / Ham Radio Logs Automated ham QSO and SWL logging, QSL type stuff. This content is not included in the above feeds, except for MAX.
- Ham Radio Advertising Just what is says. Content from this feed will NOT show up in either Amateur / Ham Radio or Amateur / Ham Radio feeds. It is included in Ham/Amateur Radio MAX. If you are advertising on bluesky and want to be included in this feed, contact me on bluesky.
Other ham radio feeds on bluesky:
FYI there are a few other ham radio feeds on bluesky. I'm not going to keep track of them here, but you can find them easily by searching bluesky feeds for "amateur radio". As of this writing, they all rely on posters tagging posts with amateurradio, hamradio, etc. This could be a good thing if the traffic on my feed(s) is a bit much for you. Also, false positives on these other feeds are very rare.
Ham feed changes as of 2/12/2024:
To explain a bit; traffic on bluesky is on the upswing since invite codes have gone away. This is a good thing. However back in the invite days when things were slow, I had tried to rope in as much ham related stuff as possible to the one feed, just to get things going. I did not intend for the Ham Radio feed to become a firehose of highly repetitive stuff and would like to prevent it from becoming such.
Splitting off the QSO/logging postings was a no brainer. There's not many folks doing that now, but all it would take would be a handful of busy station's postings of all their contacts to clog the ham feed with log data, so that had to go - to it's own feed. :)
As for the new Ham Radio article links feed, again there are a few sources that tend to generate a lot of links but little or none in the way of content hosted on bluesky. That's fine, but it's not for everybody. Again, I want to head off the firehose syndrome, so that stuff is going to be on the "links" feed, and also of course the Ham Radio+Links feeds combined feed, where you can see the original content combined like it used to be before it split.
Well, that's my take on it. Please feel free to give me your feedback on bluesky.
Larry, ad6g.bsky.social
Ham feed changes as of 10/22/2024:
Got tired of all the false positives on the search term "SDR". Have limited it to the more specific "RTL-SDR" for now, might add one or two more later. But there was just to much junk looking for only "SDR".
I might later add one or two more searches with SDR in combination with more key words.
Ham feed changes as of 11/10/2024:
Accounts that post lots of ads for ham gear have been removed from Amateur / Ham Radio and will show up in Ham Radio Advertising instead, as well as in Ham/Amateur Radio MAX.
