Notices by Kilroy_Was_Here (kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town)

@HopelessDemigod We used Novec degreaser at the electronics plant. Big heated tank for dipping electronic assemblies in to get absolutely all the flux off.

Folks would come in and dip greasy car parts in the tank. Weren't supposed to do it, but it happened. They'd come out squeaky clean.

Looks like Xiegu are going to be making a 100 watt radio.

https://www.radioddity.com/products/xiegu-g7250

I must say I like the design more than other new radios. Very simple and clean.

#hamradio #amateurradio #xiegu

@tk Remember? I have a computer around here that has Slackware on it. Reason why is it's 32 bit and is old enough to buy a bottle of vodka.

@killyourfm For what it's worth I think all these "calories burned" things that devices generate are at best very loose guesses.

Fired? Laid off? Furloughed? Unemployed? Too stupid to work? Can't work because you're sick in the body or the mind? JUST PLAIN LAZY!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Don't get a "JOB"!

Hang out with "BOB"!!!

https://subgenius.com/

@tk

The third problem is that some kind of interference or pulsing of the signal may be generated in the fan which would then be carried out over the radiated signal.

The fourth problem would be that cooling for this hypothetical system may be required during both transmission and reception, depending upon the overall installation and usage of the system. If the cooling system only operates during transmission, cooling during reception would be reduced.

@tk

This would, of course, require a separate system to switch values of capacitance in and out and all the accoutrements that go with it.

The second problem is one of power usage. Any power used up in the proposed cooling system is power not sent to the antenna. This may not matter depending upon the particular communications needs of the overall system, or if an amplifier may be used to counteract this.

@tk

Some problems I see:

The first problem in this situation is one of complex impedance. The coil inside of the fan would naturally be an inductor, so capacitance would have to be added to shift the complex impedance back toward Z0. Otherwise the final amplifier may be damaged, the transceiver may start to fold back, or any combination of both. Further, as complex impedance is dependent upon frequency, the amount of capacitance would have to change with frequency.

@tk

How about a dead drop spike and a USB drive?

@tk

They will also eventually be seen as we see asbestos or heroin today.

@tk

None of those are either suitable or to code for the purposes of grounding an ethernet surge protector.

@tk

Also an option. But you've gotta run a converter on the other end. You'd have to size the waterproof box you're gonna be putting all this in to accomodate the router and the converter.

@tk

Go for wifi backhaul. It'll be easier.

When you punch ethernet through an external wall you start having to worry about transients from lightning getting into shit. There are "surge protectors" you can use, but they have to go to a grounding rod, and then you've gotta bond that to house ground.

You also need to use shielded CMX ethernet cable. Regular riser or plenum cable won't last outdoors. It's hard to find CMX cable in quantities less than 500 feet and you've gotta terminate it.

@EccTM

I'd need to hire staff to have a well-tagged music library! 😂

@EccTM @killyourfm

Oh I hated Tauon. Absolutely hated it, for the reason you mentioned! Treats the whole library like a giant playlist.

@killyourfm

I voted the first one. I have a quite large music library (over one terabyte and about 100,000 tracks) and that video would have been the most useful to me.

On Windows, I used Winamp, which really is the gold standard for this application. But WINE does my head in, so I had to switch. I tried literally every single Linux music player out there and fooyin was the only one up to snuff. Everything else was too clunky to be usable with a library of this size.

@killyourfm

Further, most music players seem to be made for people whom like playlists. I never have used playlists a single time, I treat my digital library like a physical one. I choose an artist, then an album, and play the album through. Finding a player to support that was a challenge.

Many of them also seem to prioritize looks over usability, which is fine with a smaller library, but hinders working with a library as large as mine.

The best coffee doesn't come from a coffee shop.

It doesn't come from a gas station, either.

It comes from that machine that also serves the odd chicken soup.

The one that drops a cup on the shelf before it fills it.

You know what I'm talking about.

@killyourfm

You forgot something.

They didn't shoehorn AI and advertisements for Adobe Acrobat into it.

Yes I know it's called Reader now, I spent at least 10-15 years calling it Acrobat so that name is burned into my head.

@tk @awl

Ever since I was 14 I wanted to find an original VW bug and cram a Chevy big block in it.