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Jonny 290 posted:the best night i had on the radio in years was when i heard a sunday night net where the net control was running a very simple CYOA/tabletop game and all the other hams brought their little kids in and put them on the air to play I have a friend who, along with some coworkers who definitely should have known better (because they weren't summer research interns), thought it was a good idea to play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes over FRS walkie talkies at a controlled federal facility which is considered a vital security asset and has lethal force authorization and they found out pretty quickly that someone will indeed track you down and tell you that you have to stop.  Your game sounds fantastic, though, and I love that idea. If anyone wants to run something similar without having enough licensees around to do it via ham radio, Zello could probably recreate a similar experience since it's PTT by default but is done over the internet.
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that is one of the most Brain Genious things i've ever heard. holy god. thank you for the grim laugh
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poeticoddity posted:thought it was a good idea to play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes over FRS walkie talkies at a controlled federal facility which is considered a vital security asset and has lethal force authorization 
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Jonny 290 posted:Yeah third party operation is absolutely fine (in the US at least). "This is <callsign> with third party traffic - handing the mic over to <kid name>" and let them go. They can even do your 10 minute IDs if they want. You need to maintain control of the station at all times, which practically speaking means you are listening and can reach the power switch. This is good to know. I had seen people hold the mic to lets other talk, and really that might be good enough for me. I bought an IC-705 mostly with the excuse to show my nephews that are 10 and 12. If I can get them holding the mic next month, I can probably get them hooked. p.s. I will be down near Corvallis Oregon in a month. At the very least I will be on a rarely worked grid square and everyone will love me.
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poeticoddity posted:I have a friend who, along with some coworkers who definitely should have known better (because they weren't summer research interns), thought it was a good idea to play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes over FRS walkie talkies at a controlled federal facility which is considered a vital security asset and has lethal force authorization and they found out pretty quickly that someone will indeed track you down and tell you that you have to stop. lmaoooo
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Jul 17, 2021 17:41
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I’ll need to check the U.K. rules, but that’s cool. As long as there’s supervision I can’t see any issue at all.
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Jul 17, 2021 17:57
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Get on AG0ON and play some Action Castle.
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i spent some time at the park with my shortwave and rtl-sdr today. the rtl-sdr was doing great until my laptop got too hot and throttled (it was in the sun). i shut that down and put up the long wire for the shortwave and was able to receive lots of cool things. heard a POTA activator for a bit on 20m. it was a good time
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Achmed Jones posted:i spent some time at the park with my shortwave and rtl-sdr today. the rtl-sdr was doing great until my laptop got too hot and throttled (it was in the sun). i shut that down and put up the long wire for the shortwave and was able to receive lots of cool things. heard a POTA activator for a bit on 20m. it was a good time I’m wondering if this is why I’m getting SDR-Console stuttering/buffering issues in the hot sunshine while doing NOAA captures. poo poo. I’ll have to test it in the house and see. The CPU never really goes up very high though, so I don’t know.
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One of the deserted islands of the Svalbard archipelago*, Prince Charles Foreland is on the air as JW0W http://jw0w.no. I was able to work them on 40m SSB last night. They have six operators, and are running many bands. I hope to get more bands before thunderstorms might move in where I am on Monday. * (they're all deserted except Spitsbergen and Bear Island) Vir fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Jul 24, 2021 |
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Jul 24, 2021 12:49
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I got my very first QSL card from a german tourist visiting the radio club. International Comrades.
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I have finally cracked LRPT thank gently caress. sometimes one decoder is better than another and your capture is actually fine. reported a bug to the SatDump developer though, so useful nonetheless. July 23rd evening  July 24th evening 
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I'm still a bit amused by every contest exchange being RS "59" when the guy in the other end clearly struggles to pick up the callsign from the static crashes and QRM. My call starts with LA9, so I've run out of ways of saying 9 on the air: "NIN-ER", "NEUN", "NOVE" etc. I say "nin-er" at first, because saying just "nine" is going to sound like "five" in like two times out of five. I'm tempted to say "no, no, negative call - you said 59, so take the last digit in '59' and substitute in my callsign" - but that level of sarcasm would be a bit much. Big Mackson posted:I got my very first QSL card from a german tourist visiting the radio club. International Comrades. Vir fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jul 25, 2021 |
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Jul 25, 2021 15:40
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doh that reminds me, my lotw card came and i still need to set that up
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yeah, lol, you wanna piss some people off, give some 55 or 57 reports in a contest
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah, lol, you wanna piss some people off, give some 55 or 57 reports in a contest does it actually affect the score in teh contest at all or is it just a break from repetitive flow and makes them think to write down a Different Number?
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Sniep posted:does it actually affect the score in teh contest at all or is it just a break from repetitive flow and makes them think to write down a Different Number? the latter, its not pertinent to scoring
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Jonny 290 posted:the latter, its not pertinent to scoring And it can be easily be because of your own antenna.......but old man contesting culture is what it is.
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Jonny 290 posted:the latter, its not pertinent to scoring nothing is ham radio is pertinent to scoring
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Achmed Jones posted:nothing is ham radio is pertinent to scoring
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I hear that the Yaesu FT-992 will have a teledildonics port included on the front panel to help operators turn their radio shacks into whackshacks.
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Achmed Jones posted:nothing is ham radio is pertinent to scoring thread title please
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Sniep posted:does it actually affect the score in teh contest at all or is it just a break from repetitive flow and makes them think to write down a Different Number? If you submit a log, including a checklog (a log without claiming a score for yourself) the other station might theoretically get penalized if you gave a 57 and they wrote down 59. There is some leeway for busted callsigns and incorrect exchanges, so it would have to happen a lot for it to "matter", but if you get a 57, you have to write down a 57 so there.  I'm not a big contester with my own callsign, but it's fun to give away some points to the clubs who make an effort out of it.
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Is there anyone who would like to practice morse together? I'm pretty good at sending - computerized decoders get most of what i send right at 12 to 15wpm with a straight key - but i keep failing at decoding morse in my head. The only way to get better at it is to actually do it, but i get nervous doing it on air, with people who just want a quick QSO and then be gone, or who i can't just DM or whatever. My goal is to be able to be able to receive 15wpm reliably. I can either get on air with 5ish watts on 80, 40 and 30m - or via Telegram or something. My location is near Amsterdam, on 80m in the evening my signal is decently strong at 200 to 500km distance. I've not been very succesful yet on 40/30m.
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LimaBiker posted:I can either get on air with 5ish watts on 80, 40 and 30m - or via Telegram or something. Oh, buddy, do I have something fun for you!
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Jul 26, 2021 23:34
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ISS SSTV is back August 6/7.
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PSA: .radio domains are 25 euros a year if you're registering your callsign. There are a few other ways to get the ~90% discount, but this is the one I care about You need to go through register.radio to get the discount - all the other registrars i checked like Gandi only sell for the full-price 200-something euros/year. register.radio makes you fill in your contact info for the various WHOIS contacts, but don't expose that information after registering - I emailed to ask because I didn't see a whois privacy thing during checkout.
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Achmed Jones posted:PSA: .radio domains are 25 euros a year if you're registering your callsign. There are a few other ways to get the ~90% discount, but this is the one I care about If you're registering your call sign why would you care about private whois contacts?
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like me
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Motronic posted:If you're registering your call sign why would you care about private whois contacts? Spambots scrape WHOIS, which has phone + email. all they get if they scrape the FCC is my home address, which I could use a PO box for if I cared.
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Achmed Jones posted:PSA: .radio domains are 25 euros a year if you're registering your callsign. There are a few other ways to get the ~90% discount, but this is the one I care about anybody wanna buy me vail.radio?  e: don't anyone actually do this, please.
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Achmed Jones posted:PSA: .radio domains are 25 euros a year if you're registering your callsign. There are a few other ways to get the ~90% discount, but this is the one I care about oh hell yeah, thanks for this, had never even noticed before there was a radio tld
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Woohoo! Just bought a Yaesu FT-7. Sweet little analog mobile transceiver. First impression: the sound quality is really nice. Quite a few radios have this somewhat harsh sound, but the FT-7 is smooth and very pleasant to listen to. It puts out the 10 watts it's supposed to put out. Stability is a bit wonky, i can tell already that the vfo calibrate potentiometer on the front is scratchy, but when you don't touch it, it's a lot more stable than my FT-101. Now i finally have something i can put in a backpack to escape the mountain of local noise that's strong enough to overload the input stages of comms receivers. Someone on another forum was selling it. They had a FT-7b for 150 (already sold) and this one for 100 euro. Definitely not a bad deal, i think.
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stupid afternoon project pi zero W audioinjector pi hat (VERY nice, strong recommend. Don't gently caress around with USB sound dongles) ancient yaesu ft-270RH on 5 watts PTT on GPIO 26 via a 2n2222a and resistor 9-20V to 5V buck board Whole thing is powered via a tap off the rig line. Only wires that need to go to the whole shebang are power and antenna. Very ham-can-able if I wanna do that. it Just Works. Only hiccup was that I had to change the pins I tried on the mic plug for ptt and ground, as the manual gave the pinout from the front of the connector, not the back. Fortunately nothing shorted out during my first test. Runs great, can connect to it with pinpoint APRS from my big desktop, getting out well and hearing everybody well. Next steps are to get it running APRS-IS (instead of having to keep pinpoint up) and to set up digipeater functionality, then i'll be done. A dumb but entertaining project.
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Anyone know anything about POCSAG? I’ve got this transmitter, which windows 10 picks up and installs just fine, and this pager receiver but I can’t seem to find any software that will broadcast pocsag other than some raspberry pi project on GitHub.  Is this a case of I need the OEM software to do it? I figured it would be fun to play with since it seems like straight serial over radio, you can intercept and decode it easily with a regular old rtl-usb stick
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Anyone know anything about POCSAG? Cool! I managed to dig up the manual here: https://usermanual.wiki/Ototronix/EM-898B-1995250.pdf Maybe the manufacturer will send you a .zip file if you ask nicely? IDK
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I did email them and we’ll see but I’m not holding my breath. I was hoping someone had written some sort of universal pocsag TX software or something but I suppose this is pretty niche
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