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)_/¯
- Morongo Basin A feed taking in posts about Morongo Basin communities such as Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Morongo Valley, Wonder Valley, etc, as well as JT National Park. (No relation to my ham radio feeds)
Amateur radio related feeds you might be interested in. (There are a bunch of ham radio feeds on bluesky, but as of this writing these are the only ham feeds I know of that do not rely exclusively on tagging or the phrases "amateur radio" & "ham radio".):
Bots that spew a high volume of traffic are filtered out. Not complaining about people who put those feeds up. I just can't imagine anyone wanting to see every weather report from everywhere that's tagged #hamradio, etc. If you like that sort of stuff in your ham feed, most of the other ham radio feeds (that are not mine) aren't filtering out anything as far as I can tell, so it's all available elsewhere if you want to see that stuff.
- Amateur / Ham Radio This is my original ham radio feed that tries to bring in various 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, automated weather reports, regular advertisers, and sources that mostly post lots of links to content elsewhere. The content of this feed also appears in the following two feeds.
- 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. (NOT included: automated weather, other noisy bots) Combines these feeds:
- Amateur / Ham Radio
- Ham Radio article links
- Amateur / Ham Radio Logs
- Ham Radio Advertising
If there is a combination of feeds you'd like to see but is not listed, contact me on bluesky and I'll set it up.
The feeds below mainly exist to feed into the above feeds:
- Ham Radio article links This feed contains sources that mainly just 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. The objective is logging that might be useful for those interested propagation. Extremely noisy bot feeds are not included.
- Ham Radio Advertising Just what is says. Content from this feed will NOT show up in either Amateur / Ham Radio or Ham Radio+Links feeds 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 several other ham radio feeds on bluesky that are not run by me. I'm not going to keep track of them here (these things come and go), 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 2/14/2026:
After an informal survey I've started filtering out posts that link to "articles" produced on AI sites. As mentioned on the survey post, "My reasons; unreliable results, from tech built on stolen work, foisted upon us by some of the worst people on the planet motivated by their own greed." Started by filtering out posts linking to claude.ai, will add others as they come up. I'll try to carve out exceptions for things such as suggested in the survey response. This is a work in progress. Well, the entire mess is actually.
Ham feed changes as of late January 2026:
On the Amateur / Ham Radio and Morongo Basin feeds, have added a skyfeed feature called "Remember Posts" as an experiment. The feeds have up until this point been configured to take input from the past 7 days of bluesky posts, though in practice it only seems to find the last 3 days. Adding the Remember Posts feature causes it to store up to 10,000 posts (or so it says) after they make it into the feed, as such you can scroll quite a ways back through the feed to the point where the feature was added. The catch; once a post is in the Remember buffer I don't have a way to remove it. So if a source of spam or other false positives turns up, even after I patch the feed filters to get rid of it, whatever had made it into the feed previous to that door being closed, remains in the buffer. So far there does not appear to be a way to edit that buffer or even purge it entirely. If something really heinous fills it with crap, the only way to deal with it (that I have found) is to remove the feature entirely - and doing so does not purge it. If I put it back, the crap is put back. Anyway, I'll see how it goes.
Morongo Basin feed added 02/24/2025:
New Feed added: Morongo Basin. A feed taking in posts about Morongo Basin communities such as Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Morongo Valley, Wonder Valley, and others in the local high desert, as well as JT National Park. (No relation to my ham radio feeds)
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.
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 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 stations posting 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
