There's a thing that really bothers me in the #HamRadio world. There's a bunch of videos and articles about how to use HTs. How to program them for repeaters, Vox, etc.
I've been a ham for about a year and a half. I have never struggled with how an HT works. Where is the demand for all of these resources?
Once you understand the concepts at play (which, sure, are novel to a new operator, but aren't particularly complex), it's a simple matter to look up how to set a tone on an arbitrary radio.
I know that #DotNet on linux (at least, ubuntu-based distros) is a mess right now, but my dotnet is installed in a very normal place, why are you having issues finding it?!
Hey #HamRadio, what's the best practice around coax pass through into the house?
I've seen the wall plates some hams have inside, what's the story with the outside? Are we talking, like, one of those electric utility boxes, like for phone/Internet?
Any gotchas around them I should know about that aren't immediately obvious?
@ai6yr It's nice that my intuition on this is seemingly correct.
I like to do a sanity check with real people before I start trying to dive into web searches, gives me a little bit of a BS detector. Thanks for the help!
@b4ux1t3 Good luck! I'm still in the middle of getting my setup connected. One tip: RUN A LOT MORE COAX than you need so you can more easily solder/crimp them, and push it back into your walls. I am currently struggling trying to either crimp or solder one end which is 8 feet up and only about 8 inches of coax poking through. Oops.... About to figure out how to balance a soldering iron on a ladder to get it done, because I can't find crimp connectors that will work properly.
I just gotta say this. Maybe it's the eclipse pre-maturely plucking on my mind waves (or... Some other astrological nonsense).
I love the community on this platform. You're all a bunch of beautiful, weird-ass nerds, and I've never felt more at home, heard, and comfortable than on Mastodon.
Is there a Google Earth-equivalent open source software? Anyone? Maybe something that at least takes in open street map data and let's you put pins and stuff.
Needs to work offline, I'd like satellite image data but need topographic data.
Asking for #HamRadio reasons, I guess I could try tagging #gis
My god, adding a conditional breakpoint in #Jetbrains#Rider (and I assume other editors) and #DotNet makes things slow.
I only have 20k pieces of data (admittedly large individual pieces, but still), and I went from finishing the run in about fifteen seconds to waiting for five minutes before I hit my breakpoint.
This isn't me complaining about anything, just kind of wild that adding a single "Does this int equal this int?" adds so much overhead! I had time to type this whole post!
Or at least friends who are close enough to me that I could use this feature, and who are actually into #HamRadio, and own a #Yaesu radio with the pager functionality. . .
What would be extra super cool would be if you could have a function that would look for #C4FM traffic from a list of contacts, and leave a bell if it noticed anyone transmitting.
Maybe that's a feature in pricier C4FM transceivers?
I know there's a sort of "private group" functionality in c4fm (DG-ID), which more or less acts as a CTCSS but for C4FM. But what I want is a sort of "notification" that I missed a call on C4FM.
Again, though, that would assume I had people in my area using it. lol
As an aside, I had the idea of making a #HamRadio "voicemail" a little while ago. Essentially , set up an SDR to receive on certain frequencies, and ping you via a text or whatever letting you know that audio had been received. Maybe store a recording of it.
Combine that with CTCSS tones, and you'd have a pretty effective tool for leaving messages amongst ham radio (or, hell, even GMRS) users.
I'm sure this has been done before, but I can't seem to put together the right search. #hamr
@b4ux1t3 LLM and machine learning is fascinating and there's plenty of applications for it, but our capitalist masters have decided that it's primary uses cases are anodyne IP theft and shitty chat bots.
I'm building a ham radio control app, not a game. I was using Godot simply because I already have a lot of the bits written in C# (pre-existing project), but it turns out that audio is. . .tricky in C#, and I thought Godot would be better.
It wasn't.
I was also trying to stick to things I am somewhat familiar with. I write Rust a fair bit for CLI apps, and I've used GTK a lot in the past, so I thought maybe it'd be a good fit. (1/2)
@janriemer Since I am just not super comfortable with Rust in the context of multi-threaded applications, I decided it'd be best to just not have to re-implement all of the radio-specific bits in Rust and go with a framework I'm more comfortable with, so, Godot, but that doesn't shell out. . .so, Raylib.
At this rate, I may end up making a stupid web server and serve a webpage.
So, no stream tonight. I'm still recovering from whatever crud we ended up suffering from over the weekend. Wednesday we'll get back to it, with the new retrospective series on the games I built last year. The first game on the surgeon's table will be Glampire Asteroid Survivors: https://b4ux1t3.itch.io/glampire-asteroid-survivors
On the stream, I'll be porting it to vanilla #Godot and discussing what I lied about it and what I didn't.