Jason - VE3MAL @ VE3MAL @lemmy.radio

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This is a really good take. I have enjoyed the serialized shows -but they are a juggernaut of emotion and intensity to watch. You tend to watch them once, and it's a fairly wild ride, but then it's done. I suspect that I will be re-watching episodes of SNW and lower decks for years to come, as I have for TOS and TNG. That's how Trek wormed it's way into my brain in the first place.

Is this for FM? Most people are using vertically polarized antennas for that. You could turn it on it's side, and feed that coax sideways for at least a few feet.

The trick with a friend and JS8Call would be to utilize heartbeats and script up some sort of notification alert when a path opens.

If you don't have trees and want an easy, portable solution. Buy a $20 20 foot "crappie" fishing pole on your favorite online retailer, and run a 20m 1/4wave vertical wire up it. Add between 4 and 8 radials on the ground, and craft up a simple guy system with some rope and tent pegs. Cheap, lightweight, and highly effective, especially at this point in the solar cycle. Cut some shorter wires for higher bands and you can pick and choose which one to hoist on a given outing. The only downside is that right now, specifically js8call activity is still heavily on 40m. You will make boatloads of ft8 contacts on 20 though.

An EFHW can be oriented as an inverted-V, it's just that it's fed at the end rather than in the middle (at the top). If that's how you set it up, the main difference is some transformer losses in the EFHW, but it can operate on all harmonics rather than just odd harmonic bands. A center fed inverted v may be a little more tolerant with regards to tuning the length. Centre-fed is going to be more "idiot proof" in that respect and possibly easier as a first antenna.

The great thing about the fediverse is that you can rage-quit 100 different instances!

Congrats, and careful with that mod. I purchased a used 7300 a while back that someone did a terrible wideband mod and antenna tuner mod.

I've played around with this before, and it does indeed seem to work quite well via audio coupling, which makes me think it's probably a little more robust than typical packet. Glad to see the various new digital modes being developed for on FM. Some people just have an HT and need more toys to play with than just APRS.

I think watching all those hours may actually change your brain wiring. Hopefully for the better.

I couldn't really tolerate the animated show, or Babylon 5. But everything else has passed through these neurons at one time or another. Fortunately, it's been so many years, I sometimes come across an episode I can't remember and it's like getting a new one.

Strange new worlds is amazing. It feels actually true to TOS, without just being nostalgic. I feel like Gene Roddenberry would be so happy to see it, and recognize it as his universe far more than any of the other 21st century trek.

It's about being able to watch transactions on, say the west coast, then buy or sell in NYSE before those transactions can traverse the Internet across the continent and change the price. It would be very simple "buy now" commands, used to essentially cheat less resource rich traders. They have used dedicated fiber lines try to do the same thing, but this would be quicker sometimes. There's absolutely no public value to it, but money to be extracted.

You can check what the current state of the radios on the ISS are here: https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html

Packet will make a "braaap"? sound. (Idk, it sounds like that too me), and voice modes, you will likely hear people calling. Nearly every pass people are trying to get in. Remember to adjust frequency for doppler, and open your squelch because the signals will start out weak. More info here: https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/how-to-hear-the-iss/