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nice thread Jonny thanks 👍🏻
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my dad and I used to mess around on CB bands with his Kenwood, but shortly after that the BBS scene came online and we went that direction instead recently I've been reading the Hardy Boys to my 5 year old and he's fascinated by their wireless, so I thought about getting back into it as if I had something like this as a kid I would have never left my room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qsap5r1OXs I plan on starting with a handheld and getting my license, I think it would be a cool move to contact local hams and clubs only once I have my callsign but in the meantime I thought I'd ask you guys about antenna options - my ground station will certainly make use of an SDR so antennae will be my big concern, I live in the city but have a lot of land and mature trees, I could easily run wires for dipoles or put up a flagpole  is there a cheap and easy way I can get us started and being able to contact a) an active part of the spectrum b) with as much range as possible? like I don't think I could do 80m but 40m might be possible and 20m be easily doable, although a vertical wire dipole will have a much higher WAF/NAF than some big fan job, but I don't have a clue where active hams are hanging out these days
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Mar 6, 2023 15:51
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Captain Foo posted:oh man do the Hardy Boys still hold up 100% imo and the vocab is miles ahead of other kids' books, my son broke out a couple 20 dollar words this weekend he learned from those books and I was beyond chuffed
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Mar 6, 2023 21:54
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Jonny 290 posted:Sounds like its time for a grimdark reboot where all the music is slow quavering covers of uptempo songs. Also they're bisexual. apparently there ARE more "mature" Hardy Boys books that have been made; a friend of mine's mom got some for his boys without knowing this and apparently in the first book Chet's little sister gets blown up by a car bomb 😂
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Mar 8, 2023 15:40
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for any Canucks wanting to get their license, the govt has a shockingly good exam simulator covering every portion of the test in mind-numbing detail https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/025.nsf/eng/h_00040.html
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