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- Comment on Good ear protection for concerts. 1 week ago:
Earasers for me. They have a selective band pass to let vocal frequencies through. Airplanes, concerts, monster truck shows you name it, I’ve used mine and can practically have a normal conversation.
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 3 weeks ago:
Everything old becomes new again.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you look at $350 as a substantial amount of money, I’d say pass.
On the other hand, if $350 is roughly equivalent to a dinner for two for you, then yolo and see what you get.
You might get something worth it and something you can flip if this isn’t the radio you ultimately want to end up with.
- Comment on Which band are you on? 3 weeks ago:
I usually try to find myself on 20m. I like it’s DX-ability at night and appreciate it’s reach during the day. Otherwise 10m is nice because there’s lots of new hams ready to answer CQ calls, or calling CQ themselves.
The person who answered my very first QSO made it extra special by sending me a first-contact certificate; went way above and beyond and I am incredibly thankful for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you’re seeing them go for twice as much elsewhere, then it sounds like it might be a good deal. Bear in mind the old adage “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
It’s possible it’s being sold by someone who had high ideas of amateur radio and wants to rid themselves of a basically brand new radio.
It could be part of an estate sale and the seller did not do sufficient research.
It could be inoperable and the seller is not being forthcoming.
It could be stolen and someone is trying to fence it.
At the end of the day, you have to decide if $350 is worth the risk.
- Comment on what's a good present for some friendly nurses who taught me little tricks to work better before I leave the hospital I'm working at? 3 weeks ago:
Some banks have them, some don’t. It depends on what’s in stock that day. Tried to ask for a stack of US$2 bills once and they told me I’d need to place an order for US$10,000 in order to get them in because they don’t keep them stocked.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 3 weeks ago:
Sweeeet
- Comment on Suddenly there were 700... 4 weeks ago:
Admirable. 10mW honesty blows my mind.
- Comment on Suddenly there were 700... 4 weeks ago:
100W club here, and hoping to reduce my power use as I get into CW and still make international QSOs.
- Comment on Antenna mounted in attic? 4 weeks ago:
Late to the party; I built and ran both a 10m and 20m window/ladder-line j-pole with phenomenal results. It’s really neat in that it does not require a counterpoise as it has a matching section built in. As such, the radiating element and matching sections do not need to be coaxial, so if you’re mounting in the attic space, you are free to run the radiating element horizontally (performance will be reduced as this antenna’s optimal performance is vertical), and the matching section can have a different orientation.
The 20m version is about 44’ long, so when I only had a 30’ mast, I had to string the matching section horizontally:
On 100W and a 10m tall mast, I was able to reach Indonesia on SSB on 20m. It took some working and good prop, but we made a QSO.
I upgraded to a 15m tall mast and got some marginal improvements, but being in the residential area made it hard to compare since there was always so much EMI:
As for comparison to other antenna types, I have a 7-band OCFD that is quite long, and a massive headache to install (I primarily operate portable), and this j-pole blew it out of the water.
Check out KB9VBR’s video about it: youtu.be/RZv94BvNxrQ
Good luck!
- Comment on (complete) lemmy.radio upgrading from 0.19.3 to 0.19.6 1 month ago:
You are a king among men, thank you again for hosting this mate.
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 1 month ago:
If your circumstances change, you can make a lateral move and invest the net profit in an index fund.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 2 months ago:
They have!, 2030.
I’m not sure if it’s a mandate, or a goal, but it’s there.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 2 months ago:
While it’s no consolation to these current people, they are trying to make the switch to lead-free aviation fuel. It’s partly a regulatory nightmare, and partly a genuine safety challenge; mandating a fuel change in aviation without adequate research and understanding can result in unexpected engine malfunctions.
- Comment on Do drivers in the USA have to yield to alien UFO's? 2 months ago:
There’s a whole other section on defensive driving, I’m certain of it.
In this case, you’d be expected to exercise reasonable judgement on whether this UFO may be developing into a hazard. Four-ways on, and pull to the side of the road if it’s safe to do so.
- Comment on Do drivers in the USA have to yield to alien UFO's? 2 months ago:
Your last sentence is the answer. Your driving manual probably says “drivers must yield to other vehicles occupying a lane”, which in your example would be a UFO.
- Comment on I am getting inundated with calls from some sort of tax scam and it's driving me nuts. 2 months ago:
They will unfortunately also get filtered. What I do is to direct important callers to ensure they leave a VM, or send and email or text.
- Comment on I'm tired of every game being live service 2 months ago:
Planned obsolescence hidden behind a “feature”.
In ten years, when they want to pull the plug on this game, they will cite dwindling users and “exorbitant” per-user maintenance costs.
They don’t want playable legacies. They want something they can leverage for nostalgia marketing in 20 years, and if you break out the original game, they won’t make any money. Production companies want you to buy what they are offering today, because it pays for new yachts.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What does an actual minimal set-up look like? #podcast 2 months ago:
I ran into the exact same thing. I ended up calling them to ask all my questions and got guided to me to the KX2 “shack in a box”. They called back pretty quickly and seemed pretty kind about it.
Their site definitely needs some optimizations.
- Comment on Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory 2 months ago:
If he can speed run to $1.6b, he can restart Three Mile Island.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What does an actual minimal set-up look like? #podcast 2 months ago:
Well… this is practically the story of how I recently ordered a KX2.
The 7300 is great when I want power and lots of options. Turns out it’s a dread to haul when I go out to try just to try and whisper.
- Comment on Yes No 2 months ago:
I forgot about that one. Classic -er, I mean, Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?
- Comment on Yes No 2 months ago:
- Comment on Yes No 2 months ago:
Que?
- Comment on Yes No 2 months ago:
Joke’s on you; I don’t speak English.
- Comment on Climate change 2 months ago:
Not sure what I’m going to do without the China Lake and El Mirage Yacht Clubs.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Dark Sky for Amateur Radio #podcast 2 months ago:
Sail there, heave-to and shut off all other electronics. The closest people to you will likely be those on the ISS 409km overhead!
I personally would love to pass through there and try to make some QSOs.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Dark Sky for Amateur Radio #podcast 2 months ago:
I reckon Point Nemo (48°52.6′S123°23.6′W) might be fairly quiet.
Now to get a research grant and head out there with my rig…
- Comment on Do deaf people play media with sound on? 2 months ago:
I had a friend in high school who had an amazing sound system. He was deaf.
I asked him and he explained that he could feel many of the sounds. So while he couldn’t hear the finest details, there was a lot he could make out.
- Comment on (incomplete plus downtime) lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.5 2 months ago:
How expensive and to where can we send money because I’ve gotten a lot of value out of your hosting this instance.
