With communication still limited after Helene devastated western North Carolina, ham radio operators in the Triangle and other areas are trying to help people connect with loved ones unable to make calls or evacuate.
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Could be that ARRL was down then. All links work for me.
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Yea in a community you only see the community info. The “official” sidebar is only on the main feed
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What do you see and what link are you using? On my Mac in safari at lemmy.radio I can see it. Not in a community
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The general sidebar on the right has some links for how to get into amateur radio.
Not a lemmy dev so I’m not the go to on issues. I had that issue on Firefox though.
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I feel like every year since I’ve been licensed and an ARRL member, I’ve become less enthused by the ARRL. To the point where this may be my last year as a member.
Also a thought: I use a few ARRL links in our side bar I wouldn’t mind changing to non-ARRL links. Open to suggestions.
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It's a blast to play. Took about 6 tries to finish the game. The difficulty spike at the end is kinda crazy. Definitely recommend getting it before/if Nintendo takes it down.
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I do enjoy my morserino-32. It was an educational experience to build and it has definitely helped my cw comprehension
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I bought a pretty basic safety razor from maggard about 10 years ago and still love it. The biggest thing to learn and invest in is what blades and lather you like. I started off buying a blade sampler pack from them and settled on astra blades. i'll change up my lather/soap sometimes. Also a nice brush is good to have.
Production line stops on May 17th. This also means its other brands will be gone soon too: - Ameritron - Hy-Gain - Cushcraft - Mirage - Vectronics - MDS-HAM
science.nasa.gov
As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as “hams,” is gearing up for an exciting project
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I’ll have to look into that. I’m not sure lemmy offers that. But I can always keep this community up and just make it read only so that your post is always visible. This was actually the first community I made on this server just to test that creation worked!
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If you say you have no use for this, it’s because you don’t get out much.
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Before there was an Internet, before there were Cellphones, before there was Zoom or WebEx or Skype or anyone of a number of Voice over the Internet (VOIP); there was Ham Radio. The promise of talking to people not just in our own community but all over the world made the idea of Ham Radio exciting.
The MRHS in cooperation with our good friends at the Cipher History Museum will send a coded message in 5-letter groups via the facilities of coast stations KPH on Saturday July 22, 2023 Pacific time. The message will be encrypted using the famous Enigma code machine and is an authentic message sent by a U-boat in the North Atlantic in 1942.
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If the talking isn’t what you’re interested in:
There’s also digital modes that let your computer do all of the talking through your radio.
Morse code(cw) where you’re not talking so-to-speak, but dit’in and dah’in at someone else.
APRS for geolocation and also a few other messaging services.
Also the fun of building new things.
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That urge for a new radio for me looks like comparison hypnosis or rabbit holing.
I’ll see someone post on here/mastodon about a new radio or technology. Then I start checking out the specs. Then I start checking the specs of similar items. On to deciding if I need the newest model though because it has a few more features that I “need”. Oh wait, the other thing has a better this or that.
4 hours later, I have my credit card out and about to check out and then it dawns on me:
Oh wait, do I actually need this?
…yes. Of course. SWIPE
Also the 7300 is great. Congrats and nice find in Japan.
