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by iasay 4y ago
That is a possibility. But the issue with that is complexity.
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by iasay 4y ago
Whoops not enough coffee today. Thanks for the prod - have corrected :)
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by iasay 4y ago
FM is no more complicated than AM to transmit and receive. Simple FM discriminators for receivers like pulse counters only require a few components. On the transmit side, it's a lot easier getting decent high power modulation on an FM
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by iasay 4y ago
They are one and another when it comes to broadcast. Tied in unison until they are dead. As for the LF/MF/HF propagation modes, they are terribly unpredictable as anything other than line of sight. Groundwave <3MHz and lower,
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by iasay 4y ago
This is a good thing. AM needs to go. It's the least efficient way of transmitting audio. From a technical perspective 2/3 of the power of an AM transmission is wasted with the carrier and that has no information in it at all. If
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by iasay 4y ago
I'm not sure why everyone defaults to dystopia. Just move things around so people don't have to sit in traffic or commute for 4 hours a day.
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by iasay 4y ago
This is my view. Restructure society around less transport.
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by iasay 4y ago
My father's model S (2016) has that and it goes off randomly when he's driving up the road so I suppose that it is possible that it doesn't go off randomly as well.
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by iasay 4y ago
Most of the other cars tend not to have systems which are marketed at preventing this. I mean I can drive through a wall with my car quite happily lol
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by iasay 4y ago
Ok no it’s really good when you’re there. Just stay away from new services and make sure the investor is paying the bill. Oh and bag all the certs for when the company goes down the shitter.
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by iasay 4y ago
They did. Just not in aerospace until the mid 1960s when decent quality fibreglass (FR4) boards were available. The previous SRBP and Bakelite boards were fragile and/or hygroscopic.
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by iasay 4y ago
Go makes it explicit where the error was ignored so you can go and wring the neck of the bastard who ignored it :)
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by iasay 4y ago
It’s definitely fear based on the crap I’ve heard. “Why would I buy a radio from communists. It’s probably bugged” I facepalmed so hard I nearly imploded my skull on that.
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by iasay 4y ago
If it’s a standard RAM interface then no it doesn’t make any difference to performance.
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by iasay 4y ago
It’s probably ok if it’s a couple of years old. All AWS stuff is initially buggy as hell. You have to complain for a year at your account manager to go and beat the teams with a stick. I’ve sat there and broken nearly every AWS product in f
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by iasay 4y ago
Spend a few minutes at Clapham Junction here at rush hour. Average over 24 hours (yes including night when there are no trains) is one departure every 43 seconds.
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by iasay 4y ago
Even better there are lots of new unused Lenovo 11th gen Intel mini PCs lurking on eBay for less than half the price. They have two RAM slots, SSD cradle and up to two NVMe slots and have vendor Linux certification out of the box. I set one
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by iasay 4y ago
Manufacturing cost reduction.
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by iasay 4y ago
Honestly the Baofeng is mostly fine. Just use it. 90% of it is elitism. The harmonic suppression of the transmitter is crap which is the issue but the radiated power is constrained by the antenna so not usually a problem unless you’re testi
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by iasay 4y ago
No you can’t. You can only frequencies within the allocated spectrum for amateur radio. And it must be for the specific purpose of emergency comms. And that’s not universally true everywhere.
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by iasay 4y ago
Fair point!
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by iasay 4y ago
Other than the legit licensed responders who now have to traffic manage a pile of morons with no operating experience.
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by iasay 4y ago
Can vs will. Usually idiots turn up on 2m with them.
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by iasay 4y ago
Probably because it’s illegal to use one without a license.
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by iasay 4y ago
That’s actually a brilliant assertion (sorry for the crap pun). The majority of developers I work with are only aware of the success paths of their code. That means we’re knee deep in exception corpses because they avoided doing part of the
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by iasay 4y ago
The problem with that is the only people you have to talk to is hams. (Ex ham)
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by iasay 4y ago
The same soulless automation running the show.
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by iasay 4y ago
I do similar. I use Amazon to find the ISBN number of the book I want then search for it on ebay and buy the cheapest second hand copy.
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by iasay 4y ago
If they got rid of marketplace sellers and actually got control over their supply chain then they might actually go up in people's opinion. However Amazon and AWS isn't about doing a good job, it's about doing a mediocre job
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by iasay 4y ago
This is basically how I operate most of the time. I ssh from my laptop to a bastion jump node and then ssh to my instance in EC2 where I do all my work in tmux and vim. It's cheap, reliable, easy and it works like it did 20 years ago s

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