vk6flab
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
#geek #nerd #hamradio VK6FLAB #podcaster #australia #ITProfessional #voiceover #opentowork
- Submitted 10 hours ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Decoding distant signals over the web? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 22 hours ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 days ago:
That may well be true, but in my experience every single scientist asks stupid questions every day. The difference between them and politicians is that they write it down and pursue answers relentlessly, while politicians do neither.
In other words, don’t be afraid of silly questions, everyone is in the same boat.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 days ago:
If this is a new stupid question, perhaps you should make it a separate post.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 days ago:
This seems like a question that you might ask in an askscience or science community.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 days ago:
And you’re basing your comprehensive and systematically argued in depth response on … what exactly?
- Submitted 3 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals | Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 5 days ago:
They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.
- Comment on Yeasty 6 days ago:
At least they didn’t pour it down the drain.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What can we activate today? #podcast 1 week ago:
Nice to hear from you!
Yes, same person, same podcast, every day a new adventure.
FYI, you can get the podcast via email if you prefer text. podcasts.vk6flab.com/podcasts/foundations#h.p_5mv…
I’ve been eyeing off my own PlutoSDR and have experimented with various firmware projects, most recently played with a project that offers a web interface to a waterfall display of the spectrum. maia-sdr.org
A while ago I also patched the dump1090 tool to use open street map,. github.com/vk6flab/dump1090
73 de Onno VK6FLAB
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What can we activate today? #podcast 1 week ago:
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 3 comments
- Comment on Please describe the lightning protection for your amateur radio station and specifically whether you use "lightning arrestors" (with or without the belief they will arrest the lightning). 1 week ago:
Please do not make blanket statements like this without context or evidence. Electrical systems across the world are not implemented in the same way, which is why you need to discuss this with your locally authorised electrician.
- Comment on There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply 1 week ago:
For normal use, or for consuming more than 4 grams a day?
- Comment on There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply 1 week ago:
It doesn’t even have to benefit the minority to inconvenience the majority.
For example, two tenths of fuck-all people used the medication Sudafed to extract pseudoephedrine to make meth, but the rest of the world, me included, were required to provide id to buy the stuff from behind the pharmacy counter.
Same deal for paracetamol. Apparently a few Darwin candidates overdosed and now we can’t buy bulk packs, or any above 16 tablets per box at the supermarket.
- Comment on There's Light Houses and Light Ships, Paris, Summits, Forts, Beaches, Museums, Libraries and Islands on the Air. What else has an On The Air moniker? 1 week ago:
Is there an echo in here … echo in here … in here … here …
- 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.github.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on There's Light Houses and Light Ships, Paris, Summits, Forts, Beaches, Museums, Libraries and Islands on the Air. What else has an On The Air moniker? 1 week ago:
I created a list. No doubt there are more. Please add.
- Comment on There's Light Houses and Light Ships, Paris, Summits, Forts, Beaches, Museums, Libraries and Islands on the Air. What else has an On The Air moniker? 1 week ago:
SSTV is discouraged :-)
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 11 comments
- Comment on 1996 Honda acty starter removal. I CANT BELIEVE THERE WAS NOT A VIDEO ON THIS ONLINE… 1 week ago:
This is tagged NSFW for no discernible reason.
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Using Amateur Bands for other purposes #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 2 weeks ago:
Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 2 weeks ago:
Solitaire, 2048, Chess, Zork
- Comment on ice treat 2 weeks ago:
Green Booze … just like nature intended … bit late for St. Patrick’s Day … there’s always next year.
- Comment on Marvel Plans to Recast the X-Men and (Eventually) Tony Stark After ‘Avengers: Secret Wars,’ But ‘Reboot Is a Scary Word,’ Says Kevin Feige 2 weeks ago:
Will they be uncanny?
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - There's promotion .. and then there's Amateur Radio #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 3 weeks ago:
Watching the various motorcycle touring series that Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman made hints at some of the realities of this intersection between life and acting.
There’s several references to skills that Ewan picked up to make one or other movie and how those skills are now part of “life”.
I do seem to recall that Ewan also pointed out that these skills were incomplete, pretending to be a chef convincingly requires some actual skills, but not decades of background training.
I doubt that it’s substantially any different from learning a new hobby and moving on to the next one and starting again. You don’t forget the first hobby and are likely to use some of it in the next one. Other than being taught by an actual expert, which seems like a potential unexpected perk of acting.
In short, the journey of life is peppered with things you learn, regardless of your chosen profession.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 3 weeks ago:
WTF … that’s So. Not. Cool.