Larry AD6G

Oh now it's making sense.

FYI there are several ham radio feeds on bluesky. Search feeds for "amateur radio".

One of the most hilarious shortwave pirate radio stations you'll hear all year just signed on - Art Bell Rants Radio - 6945 USB at 2000 UTC, solid SIO 555 here in Westminster MD USA.

www.hfunderground.com/board/index....

That's a lot! I've had 4 since June.

My qrz posted email is a disposable forwarding address. So I'll probably deactivate that one and put up a fresh one, see how long that lasts. Should be good for a while, depending how often they scrape qrz for emails.

Let's try that with a hashtag or two #hamradio #QSLcards

I don't know what the deal is but since June I've gotten a few QSL "cards" via qslworld.com for QSOs dating as far back as March 2000, that I could not have possibly made.

Dunno what to do about it, so I probably won't do much. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mine was more specific.

Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.

This looks like a fine book, but the author has a lot of nerve stealing my Chippendales stage name. #hamradio

Back around the late '90s, I believe it was, the FCC announced that they were finally turning up some degree of electronic access (to what functions exactly, I have forgotten)... via dial-up modem. I shit you not. I was like; wut?

This would let me eliminate dupe posts coming from sources like ap.brid.gy that typically mirror posts already showing up in the feed from bluesky native accounts.
Thank you!

@redsolver.dev Hi - For your consideration; I'd like to have an option for skyfeed RegEx to search the handle of the posting account. I.e. a button for "handle" in addition to Post Text, Alt Text, Link.

Imagine how disappointed I was when I found out how much ham radio actually costs.

ARRL Launches Nationwide Grassroots Campaign to Pass Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
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I'm going to stop responding to folks who haven't completely read everything I wrote in this thread or otherwise missed the point entirely. Ham radio and especially ham radio skills will always be useful and I have not said otherwise.
Take a deep breath, read it again and you might see what I mean.

Not saying it's not useful. I feel a lot of people who are posting "time to get a ham radio" do not have a realistic idea of what it will do for them. It won't replace a free press.

& those in power might not need to get involved as for every political low power pirate station, there could be another one sporting the opposite ideology that would instigate jamming in one form or another.
In short; ham radio is not a substitute for a free press. Might help a little, that's it. 3/

A few things:
Pirate shortwave broadcasting is not ham radio.
If the authoritarians in power want to track down a radio broadcast to it's source, it's trivial for them to do (assuming they haven't already DOGED all those who know how to do it and sold off the hardware).
2/x

I suppose it's kind of nice now that the fertilizer is hitting the ventilator, that people are thinking ham radio could be a useful thing. It takes a lot of resolve not to 'well actually' those posts.

I get the feeling that people saw PUMP UP THE VOLUME and assumed it was depicting ham radio. Sigh.

So I read. If he has no help with his antennas, that would be a problem. I assumed help is available, but I wouldn't know. If I weren't half a world a way, I'd be happy to lend a hand.

Contents of the "two tone test generator" unbuilt kit from https://qrpkits.com/twotonetest.html

It's time to get the iron hot. #hamradio

Yeah no kidding. Someone needs to tell Ray to google "stealth antenna". There's only about a million or so schemes that work.

Nobody's perfect.

What band was the single-bander?

What did you end up using for the detector?

I have taken up ham radio AND I know what a furry is. What the hell am I supposed to do now?

The rest are vertically polarized antennas, most or all for VHF/UHF type frequencies.

Long story short, they belong to a ham radio operator.

It does give the impression of a dish pointed up, but it'd actually a HF (shortwave) beam antenna, horizontally polarized.

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