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 Thursday 2 hours ago:
For the majority of the global population that’s a day late, we’re already dealing with Friday.l.
- Comment on How LoRa (ExpressLRS) Drone Receivers Work 1 day ago:
Starting with a disclaimer, I don’t know, what follows is speculation only.
I suspect that the only requirement is that the slope of the chirp at encoding and decoding is the same.
Ultimately, it’s used to remove noise in relation to a reference level.
I haven’t had an opportunity to do the math to confirm this and I’ve bookmarked a few LoRa videos to see if they get into the mechanics, but I’m not holding my breath.
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - CME, Wind, Flares, Flux and Geomagnetic Storms .. say what? #podcast 3 days ago:
Are you talking about solar flares, or a different phenomenon?
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - CME, Wind, Flares, Flux and Geomagnetic Storms .. say what? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 5 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 3 comments
- Comment on How can AI act without initial human input? Does this show AI can have freewill or am I deceived? 1 week ago:
This is OpenAI marketing.
The fact that it’s being reported on every media outlet on the planet, means that they were successful.
“We’re so bad … it’s good!”
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- Comment on Loud Static Noise 1 week ago:
So … just so we understand, the radio is physically connected to a running power supply but the radio itself is switched off when the noise occurs?
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - The power of patience and pacing #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You need to go to see a doctor now! Likely you’ll get a referral to a neurologist. Do not fuck around with this.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 2 weeks ago:
And right there you have the path forward!
Hang in there, it might feel tough for a bit, but this too shall pass.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 2 weeks ago:
Having had a parent die, I can tell you that the feeling never goes away, but it does get easier.
What’s the best memory you have of your dad?
- Comment on [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - The things you hear when you least expect it. #podcast 2 weeks ago:
My 10 mW signal was heard 13,945 km away on 28 MHz.
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - The things you hear when you least expect it. #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 3 comments
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Top Right … tap the three dots … Submit Post
Only visible when you’re looking at a community.
- Comment on Soldering 20m and 40m low pass filters from QRP Labs for RPi WSPR 3 weeks ago:
If you’re not getting spots, one common issue is time. Make sure that your clock is properly synchronised.
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re logged into your bank account and the image contains embedded code and you’re vulnerable to the exploit, there’s a good chance that they’ll be attempting to transfer money out of your account.
If it sounds like a scam … and this does … it’s generally cheap insurance to treat it like a scam.
Moreover, if it’s unsolicited, as in, they came to you, the chances are significantly higher that it’s a scam.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 3 weeks ago:
That appears to be an earthed plug into an unearthed adaptor. They’re not supposed to fit.
Note, I’m not familiar with Italian plugs, but they look a lot like Dutch plugs which I grew up with.
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - What does expertise look like? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Are we SURE Reagan didn't cheat in the elections??? 4 weeks ago:
Elections generally tilt one way or the other based on fractions of a percentage of the vote, in fact, a single vote can be the difference.
So, if two candidates are evenly matched, it’s possible that a whole state can go one way or the other based on just a few votes.
Note that this is not specific to the USA and I’m in Australia.
As far as “elections” go where there’s only one choice, that’s not an election but a dictatorship and from where I’m standing, the USA is heading in that direction at a breakneck speed.
- Comment on RTL-SDR Blog V4 End Of Line 4 weeks ago:
Good question.
I’m not sure if anyone has created a list. There’s several Wikipedia articles about SDR, including comparison lists, but AFAIK they don’t have pricing information.
- Comment on Memory and organizing banks for Yaesu FT-60R in Boston area 4 weeks ago:
Nice!
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Memory and organizing banks for Yaesu FT-60R in Boston area 4 weeks ago:
Have you considered sharing the configuration as a CSV?
As for installing chirp, I’m pretty sure that it’s packaged for Ubuntu in the repository, rather than attempting to install the latest version from the source.
- Comment on Field day is next week. What's everyone doing? 5 weeks ago:
Which field day are we talking about? There’s amateur radio activity across the planet and events pretty much every day.
- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Building a new resource: How do you get into Amateur Radio? #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Getting started in amateur radio is the beginning of a life-long journey. 1 month ago:
It’s been on my radar for a while and I’ve been looking around for alternative platforms for the obvious reasons.
I haven’t figured out how I’d deal with existing podcast episodes that refer to “my GitHub repository”. When I migrated away from Reddit, at least there weren’t specific references, but that’s not the case with GitHub.
So while I’ll admit that I am aware of my inertia, it’s not without cause.
Ideas and suggestions welcome.
- Submitted 1 month ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 5 comments
- Comment on Investigating the Transit 5B-5/E-5 Satellite: The oldest satellite still transmitting 1 month ago:
- Investigating the Transit 5B-5/E-5 Satellite: The oldest satellite still transmittingwww.rtl-sdr.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on Wealth of Britain’s 157 billionaires now equal to 22% of country’s GDP 1 month ago:
So, if a billionaire doesn’t pay income tax, and company records are secret, and billionaires don’t seem to ever have anything as mundane as cash, or a billion dollars in the bank, how do we know that there are 157 billionaires in the UK?