#meshcore
Recommendations for buying and installing a solar repeater, but not on your own property.
Some hilltops in Co. Limerick need one!
EU suppliers (e.g. BerryBase) preferred to avoid customs issues.
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BBC Communications Engineer
Many years Electronics, RF (up to 10.5 GHz) and Telecom R&D (Analogue & ISDN) as well as IT and programming.
Retired from R&D but still experimenting and also writing fiction.
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Technical stuff:
Later I'll set up a proper intro, images, alt text etc
Experimenting with getting a whip working from 160m to 6m.
It's a multisection alloy tent pole. The Inner elastic cord is replaced with a spring made from net curtain hanging stuff with plastic removed. Cord was too stretchy so brassed picture hanging wire cord is used.
160m to 30m use loading coils and transformers on toroids.
An 11 way switch selects band.
two trailing counterpoise wires are used, one is via a loading coil.
17m is bypass.
Surprisingly one of the band positions works for 4m.
Replying to
@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
"Fortunately US courts have consistently ruled training LLMs on copyrighted content is sufficiently transformative to be fair use, and I applaud them putting the copyright lobby back in its place."
Nonsense. It's IP theft. The DMCA is wrong, extending copyright is wrong (Disney & Friends) and the earlier ruling permitting Google scanning is wrong.
The USA courts & USPTO are broken. Serve USA Corps, not creatives.