I mean, a civil war still is a war, with all the cloak-and-dagger stuff, collateral damage and desperate people
Same, man. I like it, from the meditation-like state when you take it serious to the gun goes bang part when you are just messing around. But some of the people, man... Where do I start.
I think I should go again regardless, if everyone with wane opinions leaves, that would be surrendering.
Tatsächlich waren die meisten Leute on Air ganz nett. Klar, es gibt wie überall die Idioten. Aber die meisten halten sich an die etiquette
Zuhause in der Regel nicht, da bin ich höchstens auf dem lokalen Repeater und der OV-Frequenz. Im Urlaub und unterwegs versuch ich eigentlich, mit einem channel in 145.5 qrv zu sein. Hab aber nicht viel Aktivität beobachten können, leider.
As a rule of thumb, everything Japanese is expensive but rock-solid. Chinese stuff is hit or miss, don't buy if you are not willing to put in some research. So, great beginner radio.
Hah, is that a challenge?! Because I will totally try, fail, and proceed to tell myself that tarps are overrated anyway.
If I cannot think of a word in my mother language, I see if I can think about it in English, and then put it into an online dictionary to get the mother language synonyms. Works pretty often.
I found a bug by slacking off.
Without details, there was a product that we were supposed to test before it hit mass market. It had an annoying bug where it would forget certain configuration items, seemingly at random. Nobody could reproduce it.
Until me and my friends decided that this was the perfect opportunity to slack off, and took a >1h lunch break ("can't be online on teams, I'm testing..."). As it turns out, the product goes into deep standby after >30 minutes. Official break time was 30 minutes. So if you take the break on the dot, it will never go to deep standby, and never forget its configuration.
So, we figured out the bug by taking a long-ass lunch break.
Mine is a small mokka/Turkish coffee pot with a removable handle. On a recent trip, someone bought a portable espresso thingy and it was a really nice alternative to the bottom-of-the-shelf cheap instant coffee we had otherwise. But to be honest, non-terrible instant coffee is fine for me, just don't get the ultra cheap crap.
At the end (or rather beginning) of the day I settle for "hot, caffeinated, does not make me want to spit it out". I'd rather drink the shitty cheapest possible instant coffee on a cool trip with nice people than the other way round.
Coffee. If you are a coffee drinker, get a way to make half-decent coffee.
Or tea, or hot chocolate if you hate caffeine. Nothing beats the feeling of a hot cup of something after a short, noisy, miserable night.
Counter argument: be unprepared and ready to improvise. I swear half the fun is just zip-tieing random stuff together late at night in the light of your phone torch.
Oh wow. Yeah, that is on another level. I remember a court case that basically ruled " you cannot really get rid of the fuckers, having a few of them in an old building is not considered damage ". But 50, holy fuck.
Minus the cocaine, it could just be some D/s dirty talk. But with the cocaine... Man. No.
I don't think you can really get rid of silverfish, right? I just accept a certain level
Ja gut, dann halt ein Kohlekraftwerk in den Hinterhof 🤷
Tried it for fun in a VM. It is surprisingly usable. It takes a bit of "unlearning" of Linux quirks, but since it is Unix, most stuff just works in a mostly sensible way.
Good point with the expiration date, but the one I have has >1 year, possibly longer since I cannot remember when I bought it
Servus, mein Bose QC25 hat nach jahrelangem (fast 10!), heldenhaften, fast täglichen Geräuschunterdrücken den Geist aufgegeben. Und jetzt suche ich nach einem Ersatz. Hat jemand von euch gute/schlechte Erfahrungen gemacht?
ANC, Tragekomfort, Klang und Lebensdauer sind mir wichtig, der Rest ist mir ziemlich egal. Preislich <500, weniger ist natürlich besser :)
Bonus-Points für gute Teileverfügbarkeit, Reparaturfreundlichkeit und ggf. das ein Teil vom Geld nicht ausschießlich in China landet.
Hallöle, ich hab da mal ne Frage.
vielleicht weiß ja hier wer weiter. Ich hab mit einem von diesen Quansheng K5 im Auto mal den CB-Bereich gescannt.
Wer die nicht kennt, das ist so ein China-Walkietalkie a la Baofeng, aber dafür gibt es custom Firmware, und dann kann das plötzlich auch zB CB-Funk hören.
Jedenfalls, auf 27.144 MHz AM hatte ich in NRW auf einmal statt Truckern Piloten im Ohr. Den ATC hab ich leider nicht gut gehört, aber die Flugzeug-Callsigns passten zu denen, die laut flightradar24 gerade über mir waren.
Jetzt frage ich mich, warum ist da Flugfunk mitten im 11m-Band? Oder spinnt mein Quansheng und die sind eigentlich bei 27*5=135 MHz oder so?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34507515
> How do you test your antenna idea? Well, our approach was to get a portable network analyzer that can show received dBm, put a commercial antenna on it, and strap the whole thing to a PVC pipe (for insulation and to get repeatable height). Then, zip-tie a cough drop to the PTT of a walkie talkie set to low power, so that it transmits continuously. > > Now you can walk around your contraption with your Drain Pipe of RF measuring, and get a (rough qualitative) idea of how the pattern looks like. Much to my surprise, it actually worked.
How do you test your antenna idea? Well, our approach was to get a portable network analyzer that can show received dBm, put a commercial antenna on it, and strap the whole thing to a PVC pipe (for insulation and to get repeatable height). Then, zip-tie a cough drop to the PTT of a walkie talkie set to low power, so that it transmits continuously.
Now you can walk around your contraption with your Drain Pipe of RF measuring, and get a (rough qualitative) idea of how the pattern looks like. Much to my surprise, it actually worked.
Picture from a hike back in January. I need to go outside more often ;)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29055031
> My first magnetic loop for 2m :) > > Really simple construction: bent ca. 2mm brass pipe soldered directly to the outside of an SMA plug, inside of the plug soldered to the red wire as "input coil". Tunable by squeezing the ends more or less close together. > > SWR of <1.2 at resonance, not bad. Impedance is at roughly 44+j2 Ohm, also not bad for totally eyeballing it without any prior calculations. > > I can reach the nearest 2m relais just fine at 2W, although to be fair I can do the same with a short whip antenna. More testing to follow. Holy shit, this actually works!
My first magnetic loop for 2m :)
Really simple construction: bent ca. 2mm brass pipe soldered directly to the outside of an SMA plug, inside of the plug soldered to the red wire as "input coil". Tunable by squeezing the ends more or less close together.
SWR of <1.2 at resonance, not bad. Impedance is at roughly 44+j2 Ohm, also not bad for totally eyeballing it without any prior calculations.
I can reach the nearest 2m relais just fine at 2W, although to be fair I can do the same with a short whip antenna. More testing to follow. Holy shit, this actually works!
It will widen your horizon, they said. And here I was, foolishly thinking I could get away with half-assing statistics during my degree.
Turns out the status quo of Linux memory management somehow works pretty damn okay, nobody seems to really know why, and nobody cares.
A human on earth. Ask me about weird tech. Bonus points if it radiates.