Notices by Kilroy_Was_Here (kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town)

@everyplace

I preferred direct QSL, so I sent them every day. Note that frequency of sending is not as useful a question to ask as it may seem. Operators who prefer to QSL via buro will not send them every day regardless of how many contacts they make. They'll generally wait until the box or large envelope to the appropriate buro is full and then mail them off.

@everyplace

I don't think you'd get as many users as you think.

For those of us who send them, the whole point is to write them out by hand. There are some people who use labels or direct printing to make them out, but I've only seen a very small handful. It's really an opportunity to say hello in addition to confirming the contact, and digital text isn't a very nice hello.

@RevXenoFact

His language is $!

@djsumdog

I'm hundreds of miles for a beach. And they just drive them on the paved road.

One drunk redneck bought one and then the rest just had to have them....

All the rednecks in my area bought these stupid expensive versions of golf carts, I hate them. So freaking wasteful.

And they think that just because it's not a car they can drink as much as they want and drive them.

Either somebody around here invited 4 people over to come shoot guns with them or their firework stash kist blew up.

@PopeASDF @HopelessDemigod

Nah, super bowl 6

EVERYBODY WANTS TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AFTER THEY DIE

BUT NOBODY WANTS TO BUY THE TRIPLE-YOUR-MONEY-BACK GUARANTEED WAY TO DO IT

https://subgenius.com/

Glitter on the mattress
Glitter on the highway

Are you #SWR crazy? Ever spend hours, days, even months adjusting an antenna trying to get the "perfect" SWR?

You might have wasted your time.

Read the science, not the myths... https://www.k3emd.com/downloads/Reflect.pdf

@roadriverrail

I did, a couple years ago. Most of the members were from Australia at the time, at least the active ones, and I couldn't break through the time difference. I'd be asleep when there would be action and when I tried to reply or get a discussion going, everybody else was asleep. Not a good fit for somebody on the other side of the world!

@roadriverrail

That's the same reason I'll never go back to my local club. Trying to assert myself in a space full of gun-toting religious conservatives probably wouldn't go well. Trying to get them to understand what "nonbinary" and "asexual" mean would probably go over just as well.

@Snowshadow

Meanwhile here in Pennsylvania you can change it with a simple form at the DMV. No court paperwork required.

I wanted to go visit Hemingway's house in Key West, guess that'll never happen.

I WAS originally considering RG-8X for my #AmateurRadio portable activities, but I feel it may be too big and bulky for #QRP.

Regular QRP operators, what is your favourite small coaxial cable type?

If it helps, I don't plan on any cable being longer than 30 feet.

#HamRadio

@bonifartius @louis @offset___cyan

Never heard of this dude. Pulled him up.

What a horse's ass.

Do I like everything Rick Stallman has said? No. I am not a member of the cult of Stallman. But do I think he deserves cancer or to be kicked while he's down? Also no!

@freemo @KarunaX @TheEuropeanNetwork

Gotta love these smug, smarmy comments from the guy who just got the boot. Jaysus.

@freemo

I'd imagine it's one of those things where it's useful in math and simulations even if it's an edge case in reality.

@freemo

See, I think a UBI would help more people. Look at what happened during Covid where there was kind of a semi-UBI. Many people broke off and started their own businesses, started doing their own thing.

I want to see an explosion of local business rather than having all our eggs in one big corporate basket. We'd see some actual capitalism happening! Making it so people can try new ideas without going destitute would support this goal and we'd all be on a more solid economic footing.

@freemo

I have a flipped view of welfare and UBI, I think there should be a UBI and that welfare programs should be eliminated and their funding directed towards a UBI. Primarily because the administrative bloat of many disparate programs could be greatly reduced with a single program.

I'm not hard-set on any particular conception of a UBI, however I do like the concept of a negative income tax.

@freemo

I disagree with you on some of these points but I'll say that the way you presented them is interesting.