Notices by purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com a contest exchange! here's a translation:

thank you from xy9xsu
recieved signal is 589 (very good quality)
the contest exchange is 2659.

(the exchange can be lots of different things, usually a member number or a contact serial number, sometimes there isn't one at all other than the reception report which has 3 parts on digi onstead of 2 on voice)

a tiny nothingness fell down behind the bezel of my workstation's monitor and it's so tiny it kept going to be between the panel and the metal frame that holds the panel together. i'll try using a piece of tape to get it out. wish me luck o/

install i8ktools smol brain
enable i8kmon medium brain
configure i8kmon big brain
ACTUALLY START i8kmon well cooked brain

my laptop is much cooler, thanks for asking.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com for 6m i cannot emphasize enough how useful it is to put the FM repeater output subband in to programmed scan and just iterate over that tiny portion of the band. when there's an opening, repeaters will let you know. if you can barely hear a FM carrier/station then you can for sure work digi modes and maybe even sideband.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com transmissions*

we aren't allowed to "broadcast" on the amateur bands :)

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com big oofies

glad it was something simple tho

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com left the attenuator on?

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com fuck 'em. as per federal law they cannot stop you. even if you rent.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com and yes we call them "slopers". i dont like them.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com you always receive both vertically and horizontally polarized signals, along with everything in between.

it's matter of rejection.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com my old 40m full wave loop laid over two trees, three parts of a fence line, and a roof. it was sick.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com never heard of it. compromise antennas are always fun.

tuned loops (magloops) are ideal for small spaces. something like 12ft diameter is barely big enough to pass 3KHz down on 80m. the variable capacitor is the hard-to-solve part in this design.

otherwise i'm all for throwing up dipoles or full wave loops and just fuckin... wherever the wire CAN go is where it goes. good enough. this is why we have ATUs :)

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com yeah this is your standard current balun. better than nothing, and better than an air core choke.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com ehhhhhhhhh stuff with that name usually ends up being a rf choke and not a proper balun

@why@shitposter.world depending on the mold it's probably fine on the inside. i'd gut it and find out before dismissing it.

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net it's the usual formula tho, short-stroke it and do the piston ring mod like you would for a turbo build. beef up the head because that'll be the first to go. clean up the air until you hit your RPM goal. these guys went the extra mile and chopped the deck to get a better compression ratio. impressive shit imo

https://www.thedrivershub.com/how-a-10000-rpm-honda-k24-engine-is-built/ i take it back this build is like $2 per RPM but my god i bet it sings

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net ikr???? i was just shitposting when i went out looking for builds but holy fuck people do it!

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net i think Honda's L15A could do 12k+ with the same mods -- sadly nobody makes performance parts for it.

@psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.net "her carabiner jingled with the keys to four unreturned u-hauls and seven broken hearts"