there are photos of 16 different radios and a couple of antennas, but the one in thumbnail is Elecraft KH-1

ah well then yeet that and instead

pip install thefuck

add this line

thefuck --alias | source

to config.fish

sudo dnf install thefuck

It’s up for you to decide. On U/VHF you can talk to other people directly (locally) like on HF. But you can also do things that HF can’t provide, or provides with limitations, like talk through repeater (uncommon on HF), or to ISS, or through satellites (HF bounces from ionosphere) or do longer distance communications from mountaintops, or do image transmission or packet radio (HF has less bandwidth). On receive only you can also download NOAA weather satellite images, or whatever else data are emitted by them. You can make your own repeater from two baofengs. HF gets affected by space weather, U/VHF is not, and we’re entering solar minimum. 6m will take you far further than 2m but it’s usually bundled with HF radios

On higher end there’s also moonbounce, but it’s not in the budget category

e: there’s 50 things you can do with SDR only (many on U/VHF) https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

Depends on what you want to do. UHF/VHF handheld radio can be had for 20-30, uSDX or QMX type small low power HF radio is closer to 100. You’ll also need battery, antennas (perhaps tuner) and something to put data in and out (headphones and microphone or cw key or audio interface to laptop) (no idea if it’s good but people use it)

i’d still try hydrocarbon solvent first, because it’s least likely to damage it

You can’t critihype it when you call it phage madlibs from the beginning

almost certainly both will damage print. something like lighter fluid (or hexane) won’t, but it should loosen glue. trying to dislodge sticker with a razor sometimes works even better

some people suggest vegetable oil, but then you’re left with oily fabric

waaaaay less impressive when you take a look inside

Once Evo got familiar with the genomes of Phi X-174 and its kin, the researchers prompted the model to write new versions of its own. Evo generated 700,000 potential versions; the scientists pursued only the ones that looked as if they had the best odds of succeeding.

They ended up making DNA molecules from 285 of Evo’s suggested sequences. […] All told, they discovered that 16 of Evo’s genomes produced viable new viruses.

Dr. Crook cautioned that Evo’s viruses were not radically new creations. They tend to be very similar to natural species, relying on the same underlying biology.

look out for breathless boosters “warning” everyone that ai will kill us all and it’s definitely not used as a marketing strategy

that bot setting is just irl evil bit

hornyposting on main must be one of these elusive family values then i guess

nfc tag and card might try to transmit at the same time that’s why it’s asking to remove it

“individual researchers with bold ideas” will mysteriously turn out to be republican techbros

Could be. Amplifiers are a bit more complicated and there are many things that can limit bandwidth

If we consider groundplane antenna, which should be much better than anything that you can fit on a HT, it might be centered on 145MHz (region 2 band) and it’ll be good for 10MHz for 1:1.5 SWR (140-150) and 17MHz for 1:2 SWR (136.5-153.5) according to some random measurement, first that i found. Outside of these ranges SWR rises rapidly and if you tried to transmit on say 170MHz you might get SWR 1:5, perhaps 1:10 or worse if you’re unlucky. On receive this doesn’t matter too much because these nano- to microwatts of rx power would just bounce back harmlessly with the only effect being that apparent signal strength is lower. But if you tried to transmit then design currents or voltages would be exceeded and something will break, usually final stage of amplifier. This gets rarer than it used to be because some radios can measure SWR and will reduce power in such scenario. This also gets worse the higher transmitted power is

This happens because unlike on HF + 6m, on 2m and up ATUs are not a thing* and all antennas are expected to be matched. So you can use the same radio on GMRS or PMR or what have you and on 2m or 70cm band, but you have to change antennas between these uses. If you want to use all of these on one antenna, then there are special wideband designs like LPDA but this makes sense on a mast and not on handheld radio

* there are tuner designs that work on 2m and up, but you won’t find them in HT, there’s no point, they’re too big, too heavy and too expensive

Even if you tried and made it to work, there might be other incredible problems with things like harmonics or other spurious emissions because filters were not designed to work way out of these frequencies. For example you can try to force Quansheng UV-5K (?) to transmit on 60-ish MHz but most of the power goes out at 2nd and 3rd harmonic, because of the way filters were set up. Narrowband designs are much easier and this is what you’ll see all the time in amateur radio. Wideband and ultrawideband designs are constant source of job security for RF/microwave engineers

You can think of matching units and antennas (and to some degree even feedlines) as filters to some degree, because their bandwidth is not infinite

Note that there’s 25% of fractional bandwidth in there and many antennas won’t work everywhere in that range (and also other elements like power dividers, diplexers etc if part of circuit)

hexbear userbase are tankies/campists with extreme brigading habit, this is why many instances are defederated from them. including this one

mods of a comm that has “fuck tankies” in tagline have a vote and agree to remove a tankie mod. there are receipts and entire post prepared in advance

at the same time said mod is removed as admin of a couple of matrix rooms. said mod is also db0 admin and seems to like leftist unity as long as it’s done her way only. three hours later she wakes up and her next move is to grab another, completely unrelated community and to move instances from blahaj to db0, a community where she was inactive as a mod for months, specifically so that it would be exposed to hexbear. we all know it works very well. it seems like this move was talked about with db0 admins but not other mods of said community.

this doesn’t go as intended, blahaj admin steps in and removes that mod from there too. the new community on db0 is also removed, which is something that can be only done by admin, presumably some other db0 admin. then said mod makes second big post, calls blahaj admin a reactionary, steps down as a db0 admin (“voluntarily”, somehow i doubt that), moves shop to hexbear (?)