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.
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- Comment on Crabs 1 day ago:
Who’s asking?
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- Comment on Apple Rumors: Cheaper iPhone 17 Air is Coming This 2025, and Also a Foldable iPhone For 2026 4 days ago:
Gotta say, the level of innovation and quality at Apple appears to be on a very steep decline.
- Comment on Is this the first casualty of the Online Safety Act? An online cycling community web forum with over 60K users shutting down 6 days ago:
Link to the actual forum announcement:
www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/
Quote from it:
On Sunday 16th March 2025 (the last day prior to the Act taking effect) I will delete the virtual servers hosting LFGSS and other communities, and effectively immediately end the approximately 300 small communities that I run, and the few large communities such as LFGSS.
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 6 days ago:
That’s interesting, I didn’t know that.
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 6 days ago:
Minimum expense to you is YouTube, but your videos will be their product which is fine for some use cases.
There are fefiverse video platforms, but their longevity is not guaranteed.
You could host your video content on AWS S3 and have it mirrored by the Wayback archive. There is a cost to hosting on S3, but it’s not massive.
I use S3 for my audio podcasts and import them into YouTube.
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 1 week ago:
Why do you need "to get it to at least 200”?
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Bald Yak - week 3 - Push To Talk #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- At the world Morse Code championships in Tunisia, competitors must battle to be the fastest and most accurate at sending and receiving Morse code.www.bbc.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on FedEx has absolutely no clue what 'economy' means. 1 week ago:
Facsimile?
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you’re going to have to actually talk to your friends.
Depending on your level of discomfort, you can do it in a group setting, “Hey, how come you guys always use belittling language towards me, it hurts.”
Or, you can ask face to face, but that might be more stressful, or it might not, I cannot speak for you or your friends.
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- Comment on Do you consider Taylor Swift to be of the working class and why? 1 week ago:
It’s an interesting question.
Where is the line between being working class and not?
I don’t know the official economic answer, but I suspect that it’s where you have enough money for the money itself to generate wealth as opposed to having to generate wealth from a paycheck every week.
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- Comment on Lemmy Radio Matrix Chat 3 weeks ago:
Are both those links supposed to go to Matrix?
- Comment on Looking for SDR protocol information 4 weeks ago:
I’m attempting to figure out what functionality each has, for example, rtl_tcp apparently only supports 8 bit samples which means that you run into issues if the hardware does 12 bit samples.
Another example is spyserver that’s closed source. I have no idea what sample size it uses and if it has the capability to use different sizes depending on the hardware.
I’m attempting to evaluate the protocols each of these tools uses to talk to the world.
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
An education?
- Comment on Looking for SDR protocol information 4 weeks ago:
The protocol between the computer and the dongle is one, but there’s another using rtl_tcp which allows you to access the dongle remotely across the network.
I’ve found individual references to some of this, but it’s not really complete and in order to figure out how it all works, I’m hoping that I don’t have to learn all the various protocols, rather pick the one with the right functionality and then learn (and implement) it.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 4 weeks ago:
I doubt that it’s water condensation. Based on some internet sleuthing I strongly suspect that it’s alcohol.
foodwine.com/alcohol-evaporation/
Why it’s happening for one and not the other, I’m not sure.
- Comment on Suddenly there were 700... 4 weeks ago:
13,945 km
- Comment on Suddenly there were 700... 4 weeks ago:
I’m firmly in the QRP club :)
Currently 10 mW.
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- Comment on How old is the average open source programmer? 4 weeks ago:
Which one?
- Comment on How old is the average open source programmer? 4 weeks ago:
I did not respond to this survey, but I’m an open source “programmer” and I’m in the 4% group in that chart.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch? #podcast 5 weeks ago:
“Samples of all models of microwaves are tested for leakage before sale as prescribed in Australian Standard 60335.2.25:2011 clause 3. The standard says leakage at any point 50 mm or more should not exceed 50 W/m2, a level which is internationally recognised as safe.”
Source: www.csiro.au/en/research/…/Microwave-oven-safety
In other words, microwave ovens can leak, be compliant and safe and still overwhelm a Wi-FI network running at 0.1 Watts.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch? #podcast 5 weeks ago:
😂
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch? #podcast 5 weeks ago:
I see that your voice to text system is working … sort of.
I’m guessing that you meant 5 GHz Wi-Fi.
In Australia there’s not much in the way of that around, if any. So far all I’ve seen is cheap 2.4 GHz IoT out of China.