BenDoubleU
@BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio
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- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 6 days ago:
This is very one sided. There’s SO much more to ham radio than voice.
Maybe the question is “How do we get people to think that ham radio is more than just a voice call?”
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 6 days ago:
If you’re in the US, you can test online! hamstudy.org/sessions/remote
I do agree that the test itself could be tuned down a bit, especially for the tech license. hamstudy.org also has all of the test questions available online to help you study.
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- Comment on Amateur needs to regain access to their Google account without access to their recovery mobile phone 1 week ago:
Might have luck at !techsupport@lemmy.world
- Comment on After ordering the tech and general exam guides on Kindle, this is what Amazon thought I would like to read. 2 weeks ago:
It would be nice if your ticket came with a subscription to Scientific America and some whiskey tho
- Comment on Pondering the nature of federated communities 2 weeks ago:
From experience: I can say that a topic instance such as ours is easier to moderate due to the fact that it’s narrowly focused and the number of posts here are small in comparison to a general instance such as lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. I moderate the users that join pretty fiercely so I know that the only people that join/post from here are interested in amateur radio in some fashion. I also think we are a bit lucky in how we moderate with the fact that hams tend to moderate themselves and others already through their acts and experiences with radio communications in general (thanks everyone!).
I sorta see how you can view niche instances as having sub-subreddits. Generally though, every community out there is just a subreddit and you can subscribe and post to any of them, even though some communities do share the same topics (there are lots of other amateur radio communities out there).
I definitely like seeing people creating communities here, as long as they are amateur radio focused (see rule 5). I also would suggest making an account on a general lemmy instance as well, in case you would like to make a more generalized community. I think it’s probably just good practice on any federated application to create accounts on multiple instances.
73!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Antenna Recommendations 4 weeks ago:
Those are all great options for sure. And while not an exact answer to your question, you could maybe go a bit simpler (and cheaper) for just 2, 10, & 20m like an end fed half wave.
Thoughts on how you’ll run it to your second floor?
- Comment on Retrotectacular: Ham Radio As It Was 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a slogan, just the title of the article 😊 it does go on to state that it isn’t much different and how it’s used differently today. Glad you like lemmy.radio!
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- Important message for Brandmeister USA hams using a Radio ID starting with 1 – BrandMeister DMR Newsnews.brandmeister.network ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
- Comment on Spotting with the Fediverse? 5 weeks ago:
For lemmy: it’s mostly link sharing, so I’d mostly see posting about *OTA experiences, pics, questions here in the POTA/SOTA communities.
Mastodon, on the other hand, would just be one way to show something like that since it’s more time related and ephemeral. Bot was my first stab at something like you mean, but I do think there could be something to auto-post with all that data.
And while not on the fediverse: I use hamspot for something like this. It flips the onus of posting a spot to actually listening FOR a spot from people you know around the fediverse.
BUT if we want to let our ideas get REALLY wild with it: I could totally see a federated service for spotting. Different instances handing different kinds of spots. Parks or peaks or islands being different items that people can subscribe to and spot from. Just spit ballin’.
- Comment on Spotting with the Fediverse? 5 weeks ago:
I could see a community used for spotting. Not sure how the browser extension part would work.
I see people post a sorta self-spot on mastodon all the time. Something that might be nice is a mastodon bot that could read a certain hashtag or if it was @ed so everyone could follow the bot to see who is activating.
- RigExpert’s Administrative Office Destroyed in Missile Attack – Production Remains Intact - RigExpertrigexpert.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
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- Comment on First two-way contact via geostationary satellite bounce 2 months ago:
This is the same team that received from Voyager I in December 2024: camras.nl/…/dwingeloo-telescope-receives-signals-…
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- Comment on What happened to blogs.radio? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that website. What was/is it?
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- Comment on Support Your Parks - POTA Event This Weekend 2 months ago:
Supposed to be freezing and rainy here. Not sure I’ll make it out to a park, but I’ll try my best to hunt for y’all!
- Submitted 2 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 3 comments
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 2 months ago:
Yes, you must pass the general exam before taking the amateur extra exam.
- Submitted 2 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 19 comments
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- Comment on 2 months ago:
Ha sorry. Forgot mentioning the account from another service would create a post here. But still happy to see y’all!
- Comment on Holiday SSTV Experiment from the International Space Station 2 months ago:
I’ve had sats on my list of things to learn for a while. Maybe 2025 will be the year I get that yagi built.
- Submitted 3 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 1 comment