rockyracoon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realism Question About Depicting Antennas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s super cool, like a technological aviary. I’m imagining a Ghibli-like scene with uavs starting their day, streaming out of the attic in the early morning with melancholy piano in the background. They’re up in the attic bantering like the attic of the post office in Baldurs Gate 3. That’s a great detail!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realism Question About Depicting Antennas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you’re trying to look at, terrestrial to terrestrial link or for satcom (or drone tracking antennas!) is common. The dishes with an offset feed like I liked to have the main beam pointed up relative to the perpendicular of the dish. So you may see it tilted up but not straight into the sky. This is a common arrangement for things like satellite tv service which are quite common and often repurposed for ham and other uses. You’ll also see a cantenna feed on center fed dishes, think like a big deep space dish or a radio telescope type. Those do point perpendicular to the dish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realism Question About Depicting Antennas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll also commonly see a yagi like that on some kind of rotor so it can point around in azimuth, and sometimes elevation. Here’s a reference on a similar tower to what you’ve depicted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realism Question About Depicting Antennas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also is that a drone swarm flying out of the top window? That’s so cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realism Question About Depicting Antennas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this looks excellent, if I drove by that house I’d definitely think a ham lived there. Probably the first door I’d knock on if I were in desperate need of a vacuum tube. The inclusion of many types and sizes of antennas also reinforces that this is some kind of core site for the mesh network infrastructure that this guy is maintaining. I think a cantenna fed dish or a dipole strung across some trees would fit nicely in this scene as well especially if you’re looking for an amateur or distressed slant. This setup looks nicely put together and organized.

  This sounds like a really interesting setting! I hope your party is into it. I also really like the art style of this image. It’s like an impressionist diagram in an old technical manual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me at my library job as the only one who will weed books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love libraries and the people that work at them ♥️📙

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two is selling its indie games label Private Division⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope whoever buys it makes a true KSP2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boys being boys⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is man flu? Genuinely curious, I always thought it was just a kinda tongue-in-cheek razz. Have you experienced differences while/after transitioning?