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RF Cafe
- jokowueu 2mo agoI'm getting a " Your country is not allowed to access this resource " Quite odd
- Melatonic 2mo agoThis is amazing
- matheusmoreira 2mo ago> Your country is not allowed to access this resource
- NDlurker 2mo agohttps://archive.ph/ZAFHY https://archive.ph/ZAFHY
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- wolvoleo 2mo agoWhich country is that? Here in Spain it works fine.
- 0x696C6961 2mo agoNot working from Thailand
- wolvoleo 2mo agoThanks! I wonder why. In the EU we see a lot of American sites blocking us because they don't want to bother with the GDPR, cookie permissions and such. For example https://www.homedepot.com/ https://www.homedepot.com/ . But I don't think Thailand has such restrictions?
- scbrg 2mo agoOn the About page (https://www.rfcafe.com/business/about-rf-cafe-disclaimer.htm https://www.rfcafe.com/business/about-rf-cafe-disclaimer.htm) there's a map showing some high level visitor distribution, and there's a couple of dots in Thailand. There's also the following copy on the same page: "Repeated, crippling DDoS attacks from the following countries has caused me to block their access. Apologies to the innocent. Brazil, Singapore, Angola, Seychelles, UAE." My guess is that the geolocation Gods placed GP in Singapore.
- benj111 2mo agoWeirdly that works for me in the UK, despite us having the same laws.
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoBrazil.
- gaius_baltar 2mo agoSame thing here. I can get it with Tor as most of the exit nodes as far from Brazil (for good reason). Perhaps we should mirror the entire site (it seems to be plain good old HTML) and archive it on IPFS or so to get rid of these dumb geoblocks.
- cbfrench 2mo agoHam radio websites might be my favorite genre of website. Their design is always a throwback to the internet of my youth, and they almost always have tons of interesting technical content.
- NitpickLawyer 2mo ago> throwback to the internet of my youth It's interesting how simple advertising is as well. > Please Support My Advertisers! Some jpegs. No js, no moving shit, just logos, some text, some call to action in a banner format. That's it. Also: > A random number generator determines which company's Banner Ad will go in a particular position*. I wrote the code myself and it is very simple and foolproof. > I do not collect page traffic or link click statistics for advertisements. Your website server statistical analysis is a much better reporter of inbound links from RF Cafe than I or anyone else can provide. Nice. > Banner Plan: $400/month I count 22 advertisers, so there's obviously lots of incentives for advertisers to work with this site. Good for them, and nice to see it can still be lucrative for what I believe to be a single person operation. Quality content still matters.
- folkrav 2mo agoWhile I agree with the sentiment, the world of Internet advertising just doesn't run like that at this point. The current advertisers all look like they're in the RF equipment supplier, which is probably, all things considered, what we'd probably call a niche. I would totally prefer things to be that way, but having compared to major ad networks, in the eyes of advertisers, doing things this way mostly mean throwing away that sweet sweet analytics data and some control. There's just very little incentive for most businesses past a certain scale looking to advertise to do things this way.
- ssl-3 2mo agoIt's a niche website, and they're advertising for people who are interested in that niche. I do hands-on work with RF sometimes, and I learned of at least two new-to-me companies with products that relate to the space I operate in while just poking around the website for a few minutes. This isn't stuff that I want to buy for me to putter around with at home. It is instead stuff that I can use to solve problems for clients; things that be quoted as a part of a larger-scale job. Like the advertising that supported the trade rags of yore, there's definite function to this very deliberate style of ad placement that probably isn't worth trading for that sweet sweet analytics and some control. These weren't random ads for dick pills, Raycon headphones, or NordVPN. It is instead all highly-targeted and industry-specific. It's remarkable in that I saw the advertising at all since I've been blocking ads on the web for as long as we've had a web to advertise on. But I did see these ads. I noted some of them. None were garish or distracting. I took no action to block them. If he's trying to offer ad placement for companies who want to inform people like me of the stuff they sell, and I think that he is, then: His method completely nails it.
- comboy 2mo agoEven though there are so many packed buttons and links it seems to like a vastly superior design compared to modern websites. I don't know if it's me being used to this or if we went wrong somewhere.
- meowcat 2mo agoFunny, I entirely disagree. On one hand, the design itself is heartwarming because it's old internet. Also, once you navigate into the topics, things are neatly organized, and there I agree with you. But the content on the main page itself lacks a common thread, no idea where i'm supposed to read or what belongs together.
- cogman10 2mo agoI'd say there is a pretty common thread for it, but man is it a mishmash of interests, which really makes it charming. It's certainly not focused. Sure this site is about RF, but the owner decided they'd throw in basically all their interests into one website. I mean, it has crossword puzzles and a jokes page :D This is the site to send someone to who wonders "What was the internet like before Web 2.0".
- Gigachad 2mo agoIt’s horrible to use on mobile. Which you may or may not care about, but that’s why this style of design died out.
- jimnotgym 2mo agoI just browsed it on mobile. Each article preview is in a little box, just scroll around to it. It works fine for me. The alternative modern mobile view leaves very little on the page, and forces you to click back and fwd, and back button functionality is usually broken. I think it's easier to scroll
- benj111 2mo agoHmm. If only we had some sort of language that would allow us to display a page in different ways without losing meaning. Hmm....
- sgt 2mo agoLove this design. Kind of reminds me of this Norwegian web shop: https://arngren.net/ https://arngren.net/ hasn't changed much since the early 2000s or even late 90s
- quibono 2mo agoI love the information density on that page. Feels like very fresh compared to today's minimal pages.
- mud_dauber 2mo agoOld school Japanese sites - same vibe.
- mindcrime 2mo agoYou'll love this one then: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ Just, whatever you do, do NOT press the red button!
- thewanderer1983 2mo agoReminds me of the early 90's internet I used to browse. Filled with people obsessed with tech and zero politics. I miss that internet.
- realo 2mo agoWhat is a 40 GHz , 20 W amplifier used for in amateur radio circles?
- simondanerd 2mo agoReducing the effects of loss over long distance coax runs.
- wolvoleo 2mo ago20W is a lot to pump into a piece of coax if it's not going to an antenna. Besides usually the practice is to simply put the signal handling equipment at the antenna, or down convert to a lower frequency like an LNB does. I would imagine it's more for a local microwave link. Microwave antennas have huge gain due to their directionality so 20W can do a lot. And you are limited to the horizon anyway.
- wolvoleo 2mo agoThere's a HAM band at 47 GHz in the US : https://hamradiohub.com/ham-radio-frequencies-bands-in-the-usa/#HAM_radio_other_Higher_frequency_bands_Above_UHF https://hamradiohub.com/ham-radio-frequencies-bands-in-the-u... It provides 200Mhz of bandwidth so it would make a nice point to point high speed microwave link
- stackghost 2mo agoIsn't encryption forbidden on the amateur bands? Pretty useless if you can't run TLS.
- brcmthrowaway 2mo agoRF always had a reputation of being a black art. There was a brief time in the late 2000s where RFIC design was the top paying field for EE grads. With the rise of Meta, Google, etc paying CS grads 500k etc, now it's quaint and hilarious, if you check r/chipdesign, the millenial RF practitioners still think you need a MS/PhD minimum to get a grad job.. Fellas, there's not a single Stanford EE grad that still wants to work in your field... and half the RFIC designers went took their MATLAB skills into "Data Science/ML".
- runlaszlorun 2mo agoI'll spare both of us the rant but this comment won't age well.
- fedpost 2mo agoIt's already not aging well
- newsboat 2mo ago[dead]