beastlykings @ beastlykings @sh.itjust.works

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Are you able to go to a park outside the city and operate? With low noise, you'd be surprised how far you can go with QRP. There are plenty of inexpensive ($100-150) rigs that can do that. Paired with a bit of rope, wire, and coax, you can rig up a cheap antenna pretty easy 👍

Have you heard of the truSDX? It'll do 5 to 8 watts ish, depending on the band and how you power it.

I bought a big group buy kit and have some left over, if you want one for the cost of the parts plus shipping I can send you one, just DM me. It came to like $50 per unit. In fact if anyone reading this wants in on that just message me, I have a few that I really don't need to keep holding on to 👍

Edit: additionally, if you want more power, you can try buying something broken and learn to fix it. That's what I did for my first linear amplifier, an SB 200. Then later I bought a Kenwood TS-530, broken, no transmit. Paid $200 I think? Turns out the switches were just dirty 🤷‍♂️

The amplifier needed more work though. Probably came out a little behind on that, after upgrading some parts too. But now it's mine, and I'm never getting rid of it.

Hmm, neat, but yeah I'm too cheap. At least for the cost/benefit ratio, since I'm happy with what I got.

But that's super cool man, thanks for sharing 👍

That's really cool thanks!

Is it cheaper than buying? I love hammocks and hammocking. I own far too many hammocks as it is lol and probably can't justify playing with making my own unless it's cheaper.

I'm pretty satisfied with my current main hammock, but that could change.

I've never watched it. Are they allowed a tent?

Just a hammock by itself is actually really terrible for sleep, unless it's quite warm out. You lose a lot of heat from underneath you unless you have an underquilt, which is basically a hammock shaped puffy blanket that snugs up underneath of you, but doesn't hold any of your weight, so it can stay puffy and insulating.

Would they be allowed to take a hammock and an underquilt? Then yeah, it's a great option.

I glamp with a big tent with my wife, but when is just me and the guys I use a hammock. Takes about the same amount of time to set up as a small tent, maybe less if you've got it dialed in(but I keep changing stuff). But the real benefit IMHO is that buying ever touches the dirt and condensation doesn't build up inside. So I never have to do any maintenance or cleaning at home 🤷‍♂️

Don't know why you're getting downvoted. This makes perfect sense to me. Overkill? Maybe. Maybe not. We don't know what this guys needs are.

Perfectly valid points,imo.

So good

Came here to say Mariners revenge. Love that song.

I have a portable hard drive that uses this. I haven't bought a new cable yet, limiting me to USB 2 speeds. Bleh.

Oh you might be right there too

They make ones that look out the ground plug now. It's wild.

Edit: but yes this one looks too old

Always removed about anything else?

Interesting. Why?

I use these wired headphones. They are not noise cancelling, they aren't even the new in ear style, no. They sit in your ear like old school ear buds, but built using modern technology.

They sound great, the bass is a little lacking but that can't be helped. The benefit is that I can still hear my family around me, so if someone starts talking to me I don't accidentally ignore them. They work great!

Same, I loved that show. None of my friends remember it though 🤷‍♂️

Thanks!

Got any more pixels? I wanna read it

Classic

Thanks for the write-up!

I see now I was conflating zfs with RAID in general. It makes sense that you could have the benefits of a checksumming filesystem without the need for RAID, by simply restoring from backups.

This is a great start for me to finally get some local backups going.