LH0ezVT
@LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Cardboard Copper Tape Magnetic Loop Experiment 3 days ago:
If you are on a budget (which I guess you are): Get a cheap NanoVNA or similar device. <50€ straight from China. Or get a used SWR meter / antenna analyzer from the usual places (fellow hams, internet, flea markets). It will save you so much trouble, and it is really handy to have one. If you don’t, you can still do it the old-school way of receiving a known signal and simply looking at the outcome. But for that you need a known signal (or generate one). A friend with a radio, for example. Or a broadcast station. Or some local activity.
I built a mag-loop out of tinfoil and duct tape to try out an idea once, because that was faster than getting CST Studio to accept it. It works, because of course it does, but be warned that contact resistances are a bitch.
- Comment on ripperoni pepperoni 3 days ago:
I guess they have to compete with the financial sector and the likes? Over here, it varies wildly by field and by what you do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t know about their monarchy, and I don’t care. Our 19th century grandparents were too mild on the aristocrats, if you ask me. Abdicate or get the French treatment.
You should get cash for reasons that are obvious to anyone with two brain cells: if there is a blackout or cyber attack or failure of the internet, you can still pay by cash. The fact that people don’t use cash now is irrelevant. Nobody sits at candlelight listening to a battery powered radio right now either.
As a fellow pervert, I welcome my swedish siblings.
- Comment on Hello, ladies! 1 week ago:
Okay, let’s turn this shipost into a brainstorming session: what would be socially accepted “slutty outfits” for men, both straight and gay?
I feel like our fashion choices are limited to tank tops, shorts and if you feel fancy, half open shirts.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
No, I mean the quack bullshit about creating energy from nothing. And not just some theoretical framework, as in technically, this could yield a net positive somehow, no. My guy was convinced he could build it himself from tinfoil and strings, if “the establishment” didn’t oppress him (meaning his coworkers and bosses told him it’s stupid).
Fucking wild. Imagine it being that easy, and everybody in the world is either too dumb to come to the same conclusion or in the pocket of Big Oil. Not even, like, a North Korean mad scientist trying to one-up the capitalist pigs? Yeah, sure.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
Out of curiosity, have some sources for “most of the academic field”? It sounds like some sociology/psychology thing.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
I had a physics professor tell me about free energy. Having a degree is not 100% effective in curing stupid.
- Comment on Anon explains scam callers 2 weeks ago:
Sure, and money grows on trees
- Comment on Anon explains scam callers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I’d tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people’s brain shuts off or something.
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 2 weeks ago:
People != their government
Except that they’re still mostly a democracy, and they vote for the shit.
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 2 weeks ago:
Lobbying from a small nation with no money, resources or military power, that doesn’t even buy our stuff and snuggles up to Russia for protection? I don’t really see how that would work. It doesn’t check out with the behaviour of US/EU other conflicts, like Israel or Armenia-Azerbaijan, where we immediately sided with the party that had oil/gas and bought our weapons.
I’m willing to have my mind changed, but the gut feeling doesn’t really point that way here
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
You do realize that this hobby consists of nerds and pensioners, who sometimes spend thousands on being able to talk to other nerds?
If anything, you might need to politely stop people from over-sharing all the cool stuff they made… :D
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
As always, the answer is “it depends” :D
Feel free to PM me or ask in a new post
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
10W at 2m, 70cm and 10m. except for the 10m, which I have never heard anyone use, that fits pretty well with the idea of giving high school kids an aliexpress handheld to get them into STEM.
The ugly part is, you need to do the same regulatory and legal questionnaire that you need to do for the larger licenses.
“N Lizenz” in Germany, for reference
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
My country just introduced a super-beginners license that can be done with basic high school physics. Of course, severe limitations, basically, a “Baofeng license”. Still great idea.
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
The fuck? It seems I have been lucky. Most people here follow the “don’t argue politics” advice.
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
Check out a local club. Literally, check it out. If it is full of arrogant assholes twice your age, leave. If they are cool but you don’t fit in, ask them for advice. There are so many retired radio operators who are doing it to stay “in it”, or retired engineers who finally have time and so on. Most of them are very happy to info-dump about their hobby.
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
It is fine for ham radio’s original purpose: technical experimentation and connecting people. "Don’t discuss politics’ is a long-standing Gentleman’s (woman’s) agreement for a reason.
If you want to encrypt, go for the ISM bands. Lora, meshtastic, whatever happens at 433 MHz, hell even at 2.4 GHz a few 100mW will get you quite far with the right approach.
The difference is, your stuff will be type-checked. No experimentation, no building the crazy antenna idea that will be surelu fine according to your back of the napkin math.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 4 weeks ago:
What the actual fuck. You know, I lock the screen because I don’t want people to see what I am doing.
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 4 weeks ago:
Add telegram, threema, another matrix client for that other server and WhatsApp for some old friends to it
- Comment on history rhymes, or something 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters
If that’s what you think I’m suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.
[…]
Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?
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- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 4 weeks ago:
And this burden of proof is on the accuser.
I don’t doubt the stories, but a court would see it in a different way for a good reason. It’s hard to find a solution between slander and rightfully calling someone out.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 4 weeks ago:
I can recommend looking into “science days” and stuff like that. It makes you a lot more hopeful for the future to see a lot of curious, open-minded 12-year olds.
And then they likely become the usual cynic adults, but hey, you tried.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. I only heard about Delft from a woman studying there, and didn’t hear any complaints. I guess PhD students cannot run as easily, so they get the short end :(
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. Academia is still a pyramid system, and a lot of people want a post-doc or not burn bridges
- Comment on history rhymes, or something 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters. Because of what might have happened. The people are clearly misguided, we need to roll over them with tanks to prove we are the true proletariat. A lot of governments built monuments to Nazi collaborteurs. That doesn’t mean jack shit. Hitler was vegetarian and against animal abuse.
- Comment on Testing a weird antenna in the park 4 weeks ago:
Everything is an antenna. Unless you want it to be an antenna, then nothing is.
- Comment on Testing a weird antenna in the park 4 weeks ago:
We don’t have a lab :P
Also, to measure the far field, you’d need a non-trivially-large anechoic chamber, right? I figured an open field is the next best thing, and the park is the next best thing to an open field…
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- Comment on After ordering the tech and general exam guides on Kindle, this is what Amazon thought I would like to read. 4 weeks ago:
My recommendation: find a local-ish club/chapter with sane people. The prepper nuts haven’t really invaded those here. Probably because that would require being social and working together.
