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by curiousfab 6y ago
Ham Radio has seen a lot of interest during the lockdown, both because it's a fantastic and extremely diverse technical and social hobby that you can spend endless time on in isolation, but also because (especially in the US) ham radio
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by curiousfab 6y ago
It's far more common to hear the opposite, e.g. W1AW this is W3DZZ or CQ CQ this is W1AW in amateur radio.
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by curiousfab 7y ago
Good memories of the late 90s - decoding SSTV images on 14 MHz on my 386DX40 with "JVfax" (DOS - now also available for Windows http://www.jvcomm.de/index_e.html ). All you needed was a little converter that connec
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Wavedrom: Digital timing diagram rendering engine(github.com)
1 points by curiousfab 7y ago|0 comments
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by curiousfab 7y ago
Yes, using rss2email for about 100 items a day, mostly blogs and forum posts. They end up in a RSS folder and are quickly processed with your favourite MUA (mutt in my case). I make sure that any new sites I build offer RSS and / or At
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by curiousfab 7y ago
And a lot more receivers are available, all over the world: http://websdr.org/ Also interesting: Live reports of radio amateur transmissions via https://www.pskreporter.info/ and http://www.rever
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by curiousfab 7y ago
For some reason I never had problems, even after a recent change of my IP address because I moved to a new VPS. Hetzner VPS, proper reverse DNS, SPF, that's all, not even DKIM. The only big ISP that doesn't like my mails is AT&amp
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by curiousfab 7y ago
The fact that there was little opposition was partly due to the short time between the submittal of the amended proposal by France and the meeting itself. Here's some background by someone who is well connected with the German authorit
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by curiousfab 7y ago
We're currently down in the lowest part of the solar cycle (e.g. very few sunspots) which has a great influence on skywave propagation. When there are a lot of sunspots, you will be able to make contacts in modes like Olivia (and nowad
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by curiousfab 7y ago
I am logged into several channels 24/7, in one (with a close group of friends) pretty much without a break since about 1999. I also frequent some channels with technical topics. IRC appeals to me by its simplicicy, just like good old
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CVE-2019-10149 – Possible Exim remote exploit(exim.org)
2 points by curiousfab 7y ago|0 comments
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by curiousfab 7y ago
My wording ("above the noise floor") was not well chosen. What I mean is simply this: Your receiver will have a certain noise floor which you will see/receive even without an antenna connected to it (internally generated by i
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by curiousfab 7y ago
Or a tree! http://lea.hamradio.si/~s52ab/pdf/tree_antenna.pdf http://w5jgv.com/tree_antenna/
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by curiousfab 7y ago
It is. In this case however I suppose the resistive component of the custard plays a significant role in the match and therefore power dissipation (but not radiation). The main components acting as an antenna here are indeed the wires.
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by curiousfab 7y ago
A few centimetres of unshielded wires are typically enough to receive some of the strongest signals on the amateur radio bands. If you are using such a short and therefore highly inefficient antenna, both the noise and the desired signal de
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by curiousfab 8y ago
> If it isn't true, why do vegans have to supplement their diets with tons of pills? They don't. All you need to supplement is B12, and that's one small pill a day to take. If you're interested in the background, find
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by curiousfab 8y ago
It's not a policy, it's the username of the parent's poster.
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by curiousfab 8y ago
For me (and many others) anything that involves writing more than a few words of text. YMMV.
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by curiousfab 8y ago
Interesting read! In the context of the recent rise of awareness for animal rights, environmental problems of dairy production and last but not least the discussion about health effects of Milk, I am not sure if the last sentence holds true
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by curiousfab 8y ago
No. The world record in sending letters (random 5 letter groups) is 283 for one minute: http://www.hst2017.org/en/records This is with a special key that's made for high speed telegraphy. Anything on a mobile devi
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by curiousfab 9y ago
PG did exactly the right thing here. By only blocking these 18 books, nobody would have taken much notice of this. By blocking all German users from the site, they will get a lot of media attention, and S. Fischer Verlag will get a lot of b
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Texzon – Clean, safe and reliable, wireless power transfer(texzontechnologies.com)
2 points by curiousfab 9y ago|1 comments
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by curiousfab 10y ago
Egg cartons in Germany usually have two dates printed on them, one of them being the date after which it is recommended to put them into the fridge (18 days after they were stolen from the hen).
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by curiousfab 10y ago
Examples: - Add "Approved:" headers for moderated/closed mailing lists - Add or remove In-Reply-To headers as needed (remove if I reply to an old mail but it has nothing to do with the thread; add if I reply to a mail from a
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by curiousfab 10y ago
Speed and efficiency. Very convenient keyboard only use. Highly configurable and scriptable. Available from anywhere with ssh. mutt does many things out of the box that other programs cannot do or just with plugins and/or inconvenientl
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by curiousfab 10y ago
The specs sound very similar to what the BCM8500 can do. Add an analog frontend and an antenna, and that's basically it. https://www.broadcom.com/products/Microwave-%26-Mobile-Backh...
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by curiousfab 11y ago
My domains are at Gandi and Hetzner. I do my own DNS with three VPSs in three physical locations on two continents. Gandi and Hetzner both offer 2FA to secure your domains, this is something I find very important, especially with one of my
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by curiousfab 11y ago
"Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees" by Roger Fouts.
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by curiousfab 12y ago
I hope that it's just a honest mistake that they made a part of Latvia belong to Russia (probably thinking it is Kaliningrad). Such details are important and getting them wrong can make some people very angry. Edit: At least the Crimea
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by curiousfab 12y ago
Who returns, Project Euler? Neither the news page, nor the "about" page, nor the front page of "Project Euler" care to explain what this website is all about. Of course, I can guess that it has to do with mathematical

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