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- Comment on BEST UK Slang as an American 🇬🇧🔥 #americanabroad #british #london #ukvsusa #travel #shorts #viral - YouTube 2 days ago:
u wot mate?
- Comment on If you ever worked shifts and transitioned to a 9 to 5 job, how difficult was the change? 2 days ago:
I worked rotating shifts for a few years, and currently work really odd shifts for ~3 months at a time.
After the rotating shifts, and in between the odd shifts I work now, I transitioned back to a regular day cycle pretty quickly; usually within a few days.
If you can take some PTO before starting your new role, consider going to sleep shortly after sunset, and leaving the shades up so you can wake with the sun for a few days. Try not to use bright house lights in the evening, and try to not to use an alarm clock to wake up, just use the sunlight.
Doing this gives your circadian rhythm a hard reboot which makes it much easier to transition back to a more socially common day life.
- Comment on (CW: misogyny, mention of murder) I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the culture of this hobby 1 week ago:
Get on HF. Yes, there’s still trash there, too, but you can also get on with folks who have a much more wholesome worldview.
I’ve QSOd to gobs of folks in the US, Japan, Indonesia, and even a guy in Rarotonga.
If SSB isn’t your interest there’s FT8, FT4, JS8Call, and SSTV.
Upgrade to General and get on 20m, tons of activity there right now—it was by far the busiest band during Field Day.
The good folks are out there, we just have to link up.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Problem Solving or How to Access a Radio Remotely? #podcast 1 week ago:
I admit that I did not consider the risk of RF damage to my machine, which I raw dog directly via the provided USB port on my 7300 to my MacBook. Risky, but those 16 thread FT8 decodes in JTDX are too tempting. My computer doesn’t even seem to notice it’s running 28 Firefox tabs, an NTP time sync, JTDX, and GridTracker.
I would like to use some remote tools to interact with my rig, but the one solution I was able to find was $100. Dumb, I know, to fret over $100 having just spent a pretty penny to obtain a 15m mast… but still, the cost for the remote software has less perceived value than the mast.
I’ve just been introduced (like, literally yesterday) to FreeDV, but haven’t made any QSOs yet.
The digital space is wonderful, and I love it so much.
I love these posts mate, keep them up.
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It might be worthy of discussion, as are all your other posts, just need to articulate which portion makes your skin crawl.
With this little bit of new information I suspect that maybe it’s bothersome because someone has managed to connect to you through some of your other work?
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Identity in Amateur Radio #podcast 2 weeks ago:
US amateurs ought to obtain a PO Box prior to their first application.
Look me up and go to my address and you’ll be greeted by a commercial mail receiving agency.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I refrained from any voting, but I wasn’t sure which part of this was disturbing. We’re missing something.
- Comment on Mast ideas and recommendations 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t tried any radials, and tbh I’m not certain to where I would attach them given the j-pole design has a matching network in-built. I’ve got a 1:1 balun at the feedpoint and an inline choke at the radio. My 10m antenna of identical design is great, and this one is great too (I see ~1:1 at 14.250), it’s just much higher in the band than I had planned and I strongly suspect it’s simply ground reflection since the radiating element is way lower than the halfwave it ought to be.
- Comment on Mast ideas and recommendations 2 weeks ago:
The window line j-pole is a monoband vertical, a half wave radiating element and a quarter wave impedance matching section. On 20m the overall length of this thing is 14.4m.
On my current mast, the radiating element comes down to about 1m off the ground and then I have the matching section strung perpendicularly across the fence to keep it off the ground.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 6 comments
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Long Wave Radio #podcast 3 weeks ago:
I hadn’t considered loading tbh, I’ll give it another go—just need to be in one place longer than 30 days haha
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Long Wave Radio #podcast 3 weeks ago:
I’m captivated by the 2200m band but I balk at ever being able to use it because of what I perceive to be substantial technical challenges with respect to antennas, and then the low likelihood of actually making a QSO. If I ever have a fixed QTH this might change.
- Comment on Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network 4 weeks ago:
print(“Hello, World!”)
Best I can do.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Placeboz 5 weeks ago:
Old-timey labels appeal to me
- Comment on American Radio Relay League cyberattack takes Logbook of the World offline 1 month ago:
I’m with you, and add to that only one update every ~72 hours is a long stretch between updates.
I reckon they can’t update users individually because as I understand it the email system was also affected (can’t recall where I saw this), additionally they possibly just don’t know the scale yet, and if they do know the scale, they are preparing their statements in advance.
- Comment on American Radio Relay League cyberattack takes Logbook of the World offline 1 month ago:
It’s step one of the PR playbook: assert that it’s not a big deal, and if it is a big deal then it’s not so bad, and if it is so bad then remember it’s a free service, and if you were paying then you probably need credit monitoring.
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 month ago:
We got an inspection on both ends, when we purchased (was required by the lender) and an appraisal, too. A pre-sale inspection should indicate to you if you have any lurking problems that will come up during sale if you don’t know about them and could jeopardize a deal.
- Comment on He is always watching 1 month ago:
- C I’m sorry + C +C +C
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 1 month ago:
“Don’t not look.”
- Comment on Foundations of Amateur Radio: Weaving radio into your life. 2 months ago:
I like your perspective, and hope to offer a new facet.
I travel a lot for work, and as a result, we gave up a fixed QTH about four or five years ago. My life is /M or /P. I also noticed in retrospect that I had nearly stopped going to any kind of park or outdoor space; this intensified during the pandemic whilst living in a country which took the lockdowns quite seriously.
When I recognized that my spouse and children were not getting to enjoy the outdoors as much as they should, and I not as much as in my youth, I decided to make portable and mobile ops my radio life. Sure, it won’t always be that way, but I needed to start somewhere. Without a fixed QTH, this leaves portable and mobile ops. My shack is a pelican case and a larger military style backpack. No idea where the soldering iron I just picked up will go.
But I’m happy for it, my spouse seems supportive, and my kids get to touch grass (or sand, as I recently tried to activate White Sands Nat’l Park), and I get to play radio for a portion of that outing.
In short, you’re right, the ops I enjoy are the ones I’ve incorporated into my life, this necessarily includes my spouse and kids. For me, it’s the only way I get to be on air, though sometimes I am a little envious of having a fixed QTH radio shack.
- Comment on On the air for the solar eclipse: 28333khz from DL98rv 2 months ago:
Maybe next time, but from Spain!
- Comment on Log dilemma; seeking your input 2 months ago:
Thank you. I sat on it for a couple days and have decided to leave it out. I am sure I’ll QSO with that contact again and we’ll be able to confirm.
- Submitted 2 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
- Comment on Radio Day, and a Total Solar Eclipse 2 months ago:
If it’s sitting in the garage, it might just be worth the effort. I hit Namibia from 65’MSL on my CB whip and truck.
- Comment on Radio Day, and a Total Solar Eclipse 2 months ago:
It seems to perform pretty well, though my most distant contacts have, quite unexpectedly, come from a mobile CB whip borrowed from my mom’s garage and tuned down using the IC-7300. Just yesterday I finally got a good DX contact on the OCF to Japan from DM72cu, just over 5500 miles.
It certainly will give you the flexibility to work multiple bands and find the good propagation, but it’s an adventure to setup every time.
- Submitted 2 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
- Comment on Foundations of Amateur Radio: RF is all around us ... starting your own station frequency survey 2 months ago:
We recently wrapped up a cross-country road trip across the US where I operated /M a few times.
During the drive, I anticipated some EMI, and the “turn-off, turn-on” game to isolate sources of noise.
As we drove, the diesel igniters of the semi-trucks I passed were coming through 59, and the hum of the AC compressor would bump up the noise floor a little. What I expected—and completely forgot about—was an aftermarket USB charger splattering noise all over the 10m band (and probably others).
Once I unplugged that, I was able to make contacts.