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At the risk of being the guy who explains his own joke: It's just a reference to how laid back operations in digital modes (JS8 being one, but FT8 being more common maybe) seem, kind of set it and forget it.

On social media you see some people saying things like "I woke up the next day to find that my laptop digital station made contacts in all these countries"

First example I found:

https://twitter.com/OH8STN/status/1611596504481038338?t=XuYc...

JS8 is interesting because it has a P2P aspect where it can relay messages through various stations/ continents to a destination.



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