Yeah, getting started on UHF/VHF is as cheap as a $23 Baofeng off amazon to hit the local repeaters. Unfortunately the HF stuff does get expensive especially for the high end. There’s $40k amplifiers and $7k transceivers, etc.

$0.20/gigabyte is quite the achievement for SSDs.

$0.20/gigabyte is quite the achievement for SSDs.

This just in: Water is wet.

It’s kinda crazy how good $kay’s responses are... It’s quite the uncomfortable COTD without her.

Actually, if you were able to get a high enough resolution video or lidar image of the string you could reverse engineer the audio out of it, just like being able to recreate the sound of a vinyl record based on an image of it. If you want truthfully secure communications, build a SCIF room and talk to someone in…

It should definitely give some great data in that regard. Another good source for that data would be the amateur radio community though. High Frequencies from the 20 meter to 80 meter band can be shut out by solar activity that leads to aurora’s, thus there’s a lot of people paying attention. That said, it actually…

Deal, but can I stay in Austin TX?

Satcoms are what initially got me fascinated with amateur radio, the relative ease and low cost to be able to communicate via satellite is amazing. If you wanted to buy COTS an Arrow Yagi antenna is like $90, and a pair of BaoFeng UV-5R’s is actually cheaper than a duplexer at ~$23 each. That and some $2 adapters is…

ULA (Boeing and Lockheed partnership) Atlas V541 AV-069.

One thing that’s not mentioned is that there’s an unencrypted persistent full data downstream link at 1.6866 gHz that can be picked up with (partially educated guess) under $300 worth of equipment. (think scrap satellite dish, cheap SDR and some tinkering). This could enable even the low end weather geek to literally…

Well I mean, if the 55 gallon drum has free shipping, why not?

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Hey, I think you misspelled Crossover as Camry.

But where do I hide my AR-15?

I can think of only one way this is “possible” without significant modifications: someone somewhere made a bad unit conversion. 208 kph = 129.25 mph, 176 kph = 109.36 mph. Those are vastly more reasonable speeds for someone to be doing in an unmodified mustang.

I know this is kinda wonky of an idea, but I like the idea of cops in blue. Light blue patrol colors, dark navy blue for “tactical” units, etc as needed. A coordinated color scheme that makes them exceedingly distinct from military units is quite appealing. I don’t like cops playing soldiers, as science fiction best…

Yes please. I’ve been in withdrawal...

That’s what I do. I recommend an iPhone to almost everyone as well, unless they mention specifically that they don’t like the limitations of it. Anyone I think will ever ask me for troubleshooting ever also gets an iPhone recommendation.

I’m an android loyalist and an Apple shareholder, don’t own any Alphabet directly beyond what’s in the diversification holdings. I want them both to succeed...

I for one welcome our fireball pants future.