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Dan KE8SMQ
@ke8smq@mastodon.hams.social
mastodon 4.5.18Hacker, maker, and amateur radio operator.
182 Followers
298 Following
9 Posts
Joined December 31, 2022
@ve3qbz@mastodon.radio @quantensalat@astrodon.social @KC8JC@mastodon.radio @croyle@wandering.shop @kc3yqi@mastodon.radio @k8vsy@mastodon.radio Notwithstanding the motivation to learn "Q" because it's in my call sign, that one was easy for me because it's also the pattern that train locomotives use to signal at road crossings in North America
Replying to
@ai6yr Earlier this year I was waiting for my paper copies of QSL Magazine to stop arriving, as a canary that it was time to renew. 3 months later I realized that the paper copies stopped well before my renewal date, and I just.... never got any notice at all. So I didn't renew.
@kr1st@mastodon.radio @ve3qbz@mastodon.radio @KC8JC@mastodon.radio I can understand why it might appear at first glance to be a folded dipole, but what I'm referring to is in fact a center-fed dipole with the feedline attached at one end.
https://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST/This%20Month%20in%20QST/2022/05%20may%202022/05-2022%20SALAS.pdf
@ve3qbz@mastodon.radio @KC8JC@mastodon.radio DID SOMEONE SAY PORTABLE END-FED CENTER-FED DIPOLE?!
(QST, May 2022)
@TomLarrow@ohai.social I never realized that Spacely's Sprockets was the guilty party. Irony abounds.
@TomLarrow@ohai.social woof, woof! that's quite a blob,
@HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social 60 points. 80 if I'm allowed to claim CGA.
@ve3qbz@mastodon.radio @Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social What if I use -14 and someone finds out I'm not a fulltime trucker?! So embarrassing!