If you don’t live in complete wilderness and especially if you are in repeater range then yes, there’s a lot of use of 2m/70cm. There are even commercial duobanders for this, but you can also make your own

Lots of things change between HF and VHF. Matching methods, baluns, and materials are completely different. You can get away with 70cm band antenna made of 8mm aluminum tube, and it’ll get you some reasonable bandwidth just because of how wide it is, but if you want to scale it up to 20m it’s suddenly over 20cm wide. This is not practical anymore, but you also don’t need bandwidth like this. HF antennas (other than masts) are mostly made of wires and rely on things other than thickness to make them wideband enough. If you want to use monopole, on VHF/UHF you can use metallic roof as a groundplane. On HF you’ll need to use actual ground with network of wires, which is lossy. For dipoles, distance to ground will be many wl long on UHF, and it’ll work mostly like in free space, but on HF this changes impedance, losses and radiation pattern. On HF, polarization is scrambled after reflection from ionosphere, on UHF it just goes through

Now we have excellent space weather so you can make long range contacts on 10m, but don’t expect it to last. More typical HF bands are 20m, 40m and for these space becomes a constraint. Then you have to pick two out of three: small, efficient, broadband

nvidia at least sells shovels, they already made some real profit unlike openai

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What bands are we talking about (HF or 2m/70cm?)

Solar panels, specifically inverter is likely to generate a lot of noise

Still no reason to defederate, huh?

F35-radar-cross-sections.pdf.exe

This is straight up Hague material right there, all he wants is plausible deniability

Computer said so 🥺

e: that’s a shit take for several reasons and we have autonomous killers already. it’s called air defense (in some modes) because how many civilians are going at mach fuck with RCS of 0.1m^2, that’s no civilian that’s ballistic missile. also lmao at speed of decision

perun video on this topic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tou8ahLZvP4

But when i say that Netanyahu did his own variant of strategy of tension i get comments removed on reddit

nah but there will be personalized ads coming from this

saltman: no better time to be a startup

I don’t know about going downhill in general, but there are some that use regenerative braking (regular braking, on flat terrain) so maybe

you see, air defense is very useful against supernatural horrors beyond human comprehension

(also they recently changed name to RTX after merger. surely no fucked up managerial cancer would spread from there, like with Boeing-McDonnel Douglas merger. not like they make anything of absolutely critical importance for Ukrainians)

wait, 55 years old satellite still has fuel for thrusters?

yeah it’s replacement for google only if you don’t care if any of information received is accurate at all

yeah, a lot of broke trumpists will get fucked over, along with all other broke americans, getting worse if they are lgbt or non-white or need healthcare, or are migrants. on top of palestinians, lebanese (done deal at this point), ukrainians (likely) and maybe taiwanese

one thing that i can think of that could reduce damage is that while some policies are stupid, cruel and obviously harmful for everyone, that didn’t stop them previously, but this might make line no go up for billionaire republicans, and if they have trump’s ear, that could make their implementation ineffective on purpose. i mean here specifically undocumented migrant work whose deportation would make post-covid inflation look like a joke

the ones ending up being kicked down in this scenario have more money than god and ear of trump, not to mention that some of these were likely donors to his campaign. maybe sutskever or even saltman might be ceremonially burned at stake for posterity, but thiel and musk are gonna be safe

it looks like they’re trying to delay either of those in most ghoulish way possible https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/safe-ai-champ-anthropic-teams-up-with-defense-giant-palantir-in-new-deal/

plenty of them will just shrug it off as “commie propaganda” and will ignore reality as long as they can receive coast to coast am, then blame dems for the bits they cannot ignore anymore

bonus points to former hilary’s consultants (or so i hear) running current campaign deciding that going to the right (who the fuck likes cheney?) was a good idea

there is usually tripartisan support (everybody but the far-right Republicans) for imperialism

i’m not sure how thoroughly trumpists have purged the party of noncompliants, so maybe this non-far-right republicans block is smaller than it used to be

And yes, you read that correctly; Democrats move right as a reaction to Republicans doing well

i’m not surprised by small to medium number of spineless MPs effectively changing sides, i have seen that previously. it is surprising to me that it keeps happening and dems don’t boot these people without notice, or at least deny them places on ballot