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 Voyager app for Lemmy 1 day 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 1 day 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? 2 days 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 days 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 6 days ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Are we SURE Reagan didn't cheat in the elections??? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Nice!
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- Comment on Memory and organizing banks for Yaesu FT-60R in Boston area 2 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? 2 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 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Getting started in amateur radio is the beginning of a life-long journey. 3 weeks 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.
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- Comment on Investigating the Transit 5B-5/E-5 Satellite: The oldest satellite still transmitting 3 weeks ago:
- Investigating the Transit 5B-5/E-5 Satellite: The oldest satellite still transmittingwww.rtl-sdr.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment
- Comment on Wealth of Britain’s 157 billionaires now equal to 22% of country’s GDP 3 weeks 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?
- Comment on VAT's The Problem campaign hopes to stop the tsunami of restaurant closures we're seeing right now 3 weeks ago:
Is it just me, or does this sound like someone attempting to introduce USA style slave wages into the the UK by attempting to normalise tipping?
- Comment on Study Claims Broadband is the One UK Bill That Hasn't Gone up in a Decade - ISPreview UK 3 weeks ago:
If mobile phone costs went up, like they did in Australia, then broadband fees also effectively went up because you’re using more broadband and less mobile network connectivity, using things like WiFi calling and other euphemistically named crap that basically hands mobile phone traffic to your broadband network, leaving less for what you used to do with it.
This is essentially shrinkification.
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- [FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Telling Stories to Strengthen a Community #podcastpodcasts.itmaze.com.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 3 weeks ago:
Excellent, fixed.
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 3 weeks ago:
I left Reddit a couple of years ago. The world view of management there was not compatible with mine. I don’t think anything there has changed.
I joined mastodon.radio and lemmy.radio at a similar time, then Bluesky.
There is a sense of community on my Mastodon instance and setting the local feed as my landing page contributed significantly to that.
On Lemmy I’m still finding my way. I clicked on the local feed and found your post, but I’m not sure how to make it this default. Normally I have it set to All and scroll through a bunch of stuff, commenting when I feel inclined.
The first block words made a great improvement and I’ve been pretty ruthless in blocking instances and accounts that post misinformation, though I’ve found myself in the middle of a fight I didn’t realise I was having on a couple of occasions, blocking made that disappear.
I miss certain aspects of Reddit, some of the “in” humour, but I suspect that we can grow that here as we want.
I can say that the fediverse experience has overall been an improvement from a mental health perspective, though I will note that the app you use contributes significantly to the experience.
I’m currently using Pachli and Voyager, but both are under review for different reasons.
Ultimately, I think it’s important to remember that we’re all here to find and talk to each other, sharing experiences and stories, the platform is not the reason, just the place.
- Comment on evil non-unix computer (zx spectrum 48k!) 3 weeks ago:
I worked for a now long defunct company with half a dozen of each, no idea which revision. My job was to crack and re-enable copy protection to create master tapes for bulk duplication.
I was told (as a teenager) that we had agreements with the copyright holders, but I never saw them. We also had an Orange…an Apple ][ clone, a Sinclair QL and a few Commodore and MSX machines.
My own computer was a VIC-20.
- Comment on evil non-unix computer (zx spectrum 48k!) 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised that the Spectrum didn’t reset when you put your feet up. 😁
For those not familiar, both the ZX81 and Spectrum were notoriously fickle when it came to power supplies … often resetting when you looked at it funny.
Source: I’m that old.
Also, nice socks!
- Comment on I used to think I'd stay on my entry license forever, but then a mentor changed my mind. 3 weeks ago:
Congratulations on your new responsibilities!
- Comment on lemmy.radio turns 3 today! 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for making it happen!
- Comment on Good cloud alternatives for Google Docs? 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if accessing your own computer is considered hosting. Ultimately network traffic is traffic.
A tool called Tailscale will allow you to access other devices on the same virtual network from anywhere, without anyone else having access.
If you install it on each device, they can share the same network, even whilst away from your own home.
If you have a computer that provides “cloud” like services, like NextCloud for example, then it too can be part of the same network.
Outcome: You’re self-hosting without “hosting”.
- Comment on AI Billionaires Are Starting to Panic 4 weeks ago:
- Listening to Sun reveals hidden changes to solar cycle - University of Birminghamwww.birmingham.ac.uk ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments