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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CQ: Getting an international radiogram out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All fair points, and not an odd question.

  I’ll say I’m trying to get a radiogram from the US to the destination country affected by a natural disaster. I am confident they are fine, but public service can take some time to get restored and I’d like to get a simple message to them so we can establish a very basic two-way via radiogram. The first message from me to them is a “this is a radiogram and for as long as public utilities are unavailable, you can contact the ham who delivered this message to let me know how you are doing.”

  I’m in a similar way that I can’t get on HF :/

• CQ: Getting an international radiogram out.
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨amateur_radio@lemmy.radio⁩ | ⁨3⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard there is a browser extension which does this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ADHD crew skips days all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If snap benefits are paid for where are the funds going?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the era before the average net worth of a Congress person was in the tens of millions, it made sense because it prevented them from their wages being held hostage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ridiculous⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try. I’m not falling for yet another hidden Saddam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re facing an extra tough time right now because computing has optimized the hiring process so much, it’s difficult to get your foot in the door, and geopolitics are complicating things.

  You’ll need to keep in mind that 21 is still quite early in your life, and the world and pop culture really pushes an “instant success” mindset that sets all the wrong expectations.

  You’ll need to do several things, unfortunately all at once. First, deeply understand personal finances. Understand that you need to “pay yourself first” (savings/investments) and then what’s left over is what you have to manage expenses and debts. If you keep yourself out of debt you’re better off. Bogleheads Wiki changed the way I viewed my money: www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page

  You’re going to have to continue school. You need an Associate’s at a minimum. Go to a public community or municipal college. With an AA from here, most states will grant you automatic admission to public state universities. Research this. Regardless of what your views are on the utility of college degrees, you have to play the game. A college degree is a clearing house to larger companies. Trade school, is another option.

  You’re going to have to work, to finance your costs of living plus your education investments, unless you’ve got someone or some financial instruments which let you focus on school.

  With respect to college specifically, you’ll get out of it what you put in. Many folks will say it’s a waste, that “they didn’t learn anything new” while they went through. Well, that just signals to me they phoned it in; maybe they got lucky and got a break on their job, too.

  From there, you’ll have your personal finances on lock, and one or two degrees (AA and a BA, and maybe a certificate or two) and you’ll be much more competitive.

  The real game changer after all this is networking. The saying goes: It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. The best jobs don’t get posted to corporate websites, or if they do, they’re posted for labor law compliance and they already have a candidate in mind. Become a master at socializing (≠ partying), hint: it’s mostly just listening to other people.

  It takes time. Be patient. Stay focused. You’ll get there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a lot to be said for the differences here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US at least, the constitutional requirements for being elected to the presidency do not prevent felons from being elected, and there are good arguments for this. A weaponized judicial system can be used to oust or prevent political opponents from gaining the presidency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Purrfect Diagram⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a Neutron Cat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hue hue hue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And 10m Amateur Techs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public List of programs that manage activations, the act of setting up an amateur radio station for the purpose of making contact with other amateurs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brilliant timing tbh because I am east coast US. I’d have to join EchoLink owing to a rediculous noise floor where I’m at and, well, I can’t touch VK land from Maryland in the US with my 100W.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public List of programs that manage activations, the act of setting up an amateur radio station for the purpose of making contact with other amateurs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point and I hate that you’re right

  I’d love to have some hamshack beers with folks and work out some of the mechanics. POTA and SOTA work so well because it mostly relies on the activators. I’d need some ideas on how to make a similar mechanic for ROTA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public List of programs that manage activations, the act of setting up an amateur radio station for the purpose of making contact with other amateurs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to see a “ROTA”: Relays On The Air.

  One of the beautiful adjacent benefits amateur radio has greatly benefitted from in POTA/SOTA is that it gets us out of the hamshack to do real-world field exercises, resulting in the miniaturization of everything from Morse keys to antenna setups, but something important we don’t really practice enough are radio relays.

  We hold our hobby out as an additional means of communication for EMCOMM, something like ROTA might also supercharge our corps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I studied Gaussian curves and found a mistress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CQ: What's your amateur radio plans this coming weekend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Do what you can, from where you are, with what you’ve got.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CQ: What's your amateur radio plans this coming weekend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I did CWOps beginner. I got the pocket radio and tiny keyed. My setup is so thin I should totally be jamming Morse every day and yet… I haven’t.

• CQ: What's your amateur radio plans this coming weekend?lemmy.radio ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨amateur_radio@lemmy.radio⁩ | ⁨11⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pattern of symbols incorporated into a number of banknote designs. Many printers, scanners, even software will prevent loading the document for processing if the constellation is present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only from an outside perspective. Inside the black hole it’s already next Tuesday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This may seem counter-intuitive, but air in this case is the problem, so filling it less introduces more air (which is compressible) versus liquids which are generally incompressible.

  But OP mentioned the bottles they use are not great so the problem they face may really be about gising better containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as Idiocracy, and here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am making a list of all the places I will spend my $0.42 settlement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK online safety law is going to change the way we use the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it, quite unethically is in the EULA none of us are equipped to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder God⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make Pirates Great Again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first tell was the author using the first person, and the next tell was the piano falling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because stupidity is immortal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What is Amateur Radio really about? #podcast⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Onno, you’re spot-on, we are troubleshooters.

  When I was fiddling with my first self-built antenna last year, the first problem I had to contend with was design selection, then materials, and all the discrete steps through erecting the antenna—which itself posed some issues when at first the mast was too short, and then again when a taller mast attenuated the signal (carbon fiber) if the antenna got too close to the mast.

  The troubleshooting process was always rewarded with the end goal of two-way comms.