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 A reminder that the majority of anti-Reddit *hardliners* went back crawling to Reddit like the bitches they are 1 day ago:
So how is this “I told you so!” posting by you a shitpost, or are you just bragging or lost?
- Comment on The real questions 2 days ago:
Because the only thing coming out of them is shit?
- The regulator in #Australia, the #ACMA, is looking for submissions on updating the Amateur Radio Licence Conditions Determinationwww.acma.gov.au ↗Submitted 4 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Playing Games On-Air #podcast 6 days ago:
It was just suggested to me that a game to consider is “Battleships”, good for learning phonetics or Morse.
- Submitted 6 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 6 days ago:
Because the only thing coming out of them is shit?
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s assault of a minor.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 1 week ago:
The ones running the country!
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 1 week ago:
While it’s true in the majority of cases, it’s not a one to one relationship.
There’s a few billionaire numpties who will eat regardless and see it as a way to reduce wages even further whilst charging more for their products … profit!
- Comment on Advice on getting back into the hobby? 1 week ago:
It seems to me that you already have all the gear.
You can experiment endlessly with an increasing number of digital modes.
You can test your skills and improve them in comparison with yourself and the rest of the community by doing a contest. There’s at least one on every weekend.
You can participate in or host a daily, weekly and monthly net. I run one for new and returning amateurs every Saturday at midnight UTC for an hour and have done for over 14 years.
You can incorporate the hobby into other activities such as camping, hiking, boating, etc.
You can build stuff from components, or write software and experiment.
Finally there’s a ham challenge with a new thing to learn or do every week for a year.
I’ve been writing a weekly podcast about doing stuff since I was licensed.
There are any number of things to do if you apply a little imagination to the problem.
This is a hobby, so having fun is part of the gig.
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 1 week ago:
I’ve had the same phone number since 1992. It’s public, on my website. It’s in everyone’s database. Yesterday I spoke with an organisation that I hadn’t dealt with since 1998, they had it and knew my name (and when I got licensed, the reason for my call).
My phone is on silent 100% of the time.
All blocked caller ID goes direct to voicemail. The only time I actually get a voicemail from these calls is when it’s a stupid robot or a human who actually needs to speak with me, the rest of the time I get nothing.
I can see a future where we get to the point where we’re uncontactable because there’s so much spam and fraud.
I think that the onus is on telcos to stamp this out, but it’s all income generating, so they don’t have any financial incentives to fix this.
- Comment on How do I turn my tv on? 1 week ago:
Props for a shitpost with such depth of depravity, especially since even a single response here will increase entropy more than you getting up and turning the TV on multiple times a day for the rest of your life.
And here’s the kicker, that pales into insignificance when compared with watching a twelve hour video.
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The title of your post is:
Have anyone seen any Chinese tourists behaving properly before?
This implies that nobody has seen any Chinese tourists behaving properly, in other words, they’re all misbehaving.
Your body text says that you know people from the mainland, which I presume means China, and that this idea of badly behaving tourists makes you sad.
The two are in disagreement with each other.
I think you meant to ask:
“Has anyone seen any Chinese tourists behaving improperly before?”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Your title and question don’t appear to make sense.
Do you mean “improperly” ?
- Comment on How's them tariffs going 2 weeks ago:
We’ve got the best stock market in the world, it’s ginormous, we will make it even better!
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 weeks ago:
Refer to Ambience Adjustments in your research proposal?
- Comment on For those who do public service, do you use a dedicated dual band VHF/UHF radio, or the same all-band, all-mode radio you use for other activities like POTA? 2 weeks ago:
Based on your updated question, I’d go with cheap and nasty. The radio will be subjected to abuse and the cheaper it is, the less you’ll cry when someone drops it, as opposed to having a Yeasuu handheld, or mobile base station dropping on the floor.
The other thing to consider is that you can purchase a several dozen cheap Chinese radios and drop one on the floor every month for the next few years and still spend less money than buying a Yaesu FTX-1F Portable when it becomes available.
There’s debate about Baofeng vs Wouxun, buy one of each and see what you like. The Baeofengs are cheap and sometimes hard to program, the Wouxun is more of a robust radio, but you might not need it.
Consider for example what happens when it rains.
We tested a whole bunch of radios during our hamfest in 2023, report is here: github.com/vk6flab/rhp
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 weeks ago:
They just got fired, together with anyone who might begin to fix this.
- Comment on For those who do public service, do you use a dedicated dual band VHF/UHF radio, or the same all-band, all-mode radio you use for other activities like POTA? 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that the answer depends on several factors. Also, I’m not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet.
Generally speaking, an amateur radio transceiver is illegal to use on anything other than amateur frequencies, unless in the midst of an emergency.
Purpose built radios can in some jurisdictions legally be modified to operate on amateur frequencies and in some cases might still be legal to operate on their original frequencies.
With software defined radio this distinction is often moot, but the law hasn’t caught up.
In general, it’s simplest to keep amateur and public service activities separate.
- Comment on Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages 2 weeks ago:
I’d be surprised if they hadn’t, or any other language under the sun.
- Comment on Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages 2 weeks ago:
Essentially, if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you won’t find it and if you only look for things you know about, that’s all you’ll find.
Also, “Boffins”, what the fuck, now you can’t be an ICT Researcher anymore?
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What is the difference between a Dummy Load and an Antenna? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 2 weeks ago:
It’s on purpose and AFAIK for two main reasons:
- To confuse the buyer
- To be able to trademark and protect the brand
- Comment on Skill issue 3 weeks ago:
Source?
- Comment on Can't solve the captcha because I don't know what `undefined` is 3 weeks ago:
Hit the refresh button on your browser.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 3 weeks ago:
I first heard this in the early 1990’s when I was working on a computer helpdesk. By that time, Word Perfect was no longer popular, having been steadily replaced by Windows and Word.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 3 weeks ago:
This question has nothing to do with the country and everything to do with the person. It’s entirely up to the individual how to approach this.
For an external observer, the choice made by someone else is not for you to judge. You can never know what is inside the other person’s mind and whilst you might disagree, it’s their choice.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 3 weeks ago:
What you might be missing from the story is that the customer was more likely than not using a landline to call technical support.
The ADSL filter sits between the telephone line from the street and the telephone.
Disconnecting the filter is the equivalent to yanking the telephone socket out the wall and if you do that during the call … no more call.
At this time many people were already using cordless phones and mobile phones were making inroads, so the link between the call dropping and removing the filter might not be immediately obvious to a clueless end user.
Source: I have had the misfortune of phoning telco helpdesk services where this kind activity would absolutely happen.