I'm working Europe from the car in MA on 40 meters. #HamRadio
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It's weird to me to see confusion about washing your hands versus sanitizing your hands. Wash your damn hands.
I've been using a method to log #HamRadio contacts using my smartphone that works pretty well. It involves using speech to text and OneNote. I don't need my logs in any specific format as I'm not uploading them anywhere. I can speak the frequency, the call sign, the signal reports, etc. All pretty much without looking at my phone. If the other party has good audio, I can cheat and just let the other party dictate right into OneNote.
Hey #HamRadio peeps, who uses an EFHW or an end fed random wire for mutual-band HF in a vertical orientation? Or at least most of it vertical? Looking to hear opinions.
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Guess I could throw a trap in halfway down each wire so it would have a lower radiation angle on higher freq.
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@ozeng@aus.social This explains a lot. I had an EFHW that was about 30+ ft vertical, and it didn't hear well on 10 - 15 meters. I was able to make contacts, but the setup in my car worked way better on those bands.
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@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org for me, the first thing I would do is definitely rule out the DSL itself. Can you have some stats from the DSL router/modem get pushed somewhere to watch for issues? I suppose your ISP has already been doing that.
Saw Les Mis last performance of this tour last night - in Boston. Pretty amazing. #lesmis
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So many businesses closed. Restaurants left as they were on their last day open. Not just in the old downtown areas. Everywhere we looked. I haven't been to these places in years. Compared to what things were like the last time, it made me sad.
Anyone have Visible Wireless (the MVNO run by Verizon that uses their network)? They have a limit on hotspot speeds, max is 15MB/s on high end plan. I have Verizon now that doesn't limit the hotspot speed, so I often get more than 150MB/s. But wondering if ultimately I don't need that speed anyways. The most bandwidth intensive thing I do with the hotspot is web meetings or streaming services. Visible is significantly less expensive and on the same network.
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@HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social There is plenty of good history in Salem. Around the corner from this picture is where Alexander Graham Bell made the first "long distance" phone call to Boston. Called Lyceum Hall at the time, it is now a Seafood Restaurant.
https://www.salem.org/blog/bell-long-distance-call-salem/
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@jzb@hachyderm.io Unnecessary urgency and/or unplanned work (due to someone else's poor planning) must be extinguished as soon as possible! People will try to push your buttons and tell you that it's expected of your job. In almost all cases, it is not.
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@HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social Yea. Haunted by a bunch of idiots killing innocent people back in the day. And a city that's cashed in on it as much as they can.
Have had a number of people comment about my T-shirt today.
Many of these folks that do airport streaming of aircraft activity are not very good camera operators. But they are doing _something_ that others enjoy watching. And they'll get better over time.
I just asked Copilot (consumer version) to help me locate an auto part. It just confidently informed me that the part should be in stock at a local Advance Auto Parts. The store they suggest doesn't exist. I scrolled down and it shows that AutoZone also has the part. Also at a store that doesn't exist.
Not something you see every day.
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Not a good thing to see when you are trying to log into your Dr's online portal.
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Actually, I should model this to see if I'll have the same issues with a high angle of radiation for higher frequencies.
Do you drive in the passing lane like this? Why?
Got a really loud motorcycle? How long have you been an asshole?
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@LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social Also noteworthy is that they proactively reached out to all of their customers with a memo that provided some detail about this. This isn't typical for Oracle.
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@ozeng@aus.social Kinda what I'm trying to understand is what angle of radiation to expect if most/all of the antenna were vertical.
This pose. #caturday
ICE assassinated another person. This time in Maine.
Fake fireplace outside FTW.
Oh look, a Tesla driver taking up a handicapped spot to pick up there to go order.
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@army_talk_fascism@mastodon.social The local High School used to hand over a list of students to the Army/ROTC by default. Without anyone's permission.
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@leerayl@infosec.exchange tnx. I've realized that my needs today aren't what they used to be. And I'm paying for stuff I don't really need.
I explained to some folks today what "blue light special" was.
Seen on a storefront window today. #ICESucksBalls