Second $10 garage sale 19 inch rack deployed. Found an extra 19 inch shelf I had snagged a few years ago! Need another. Much better than the pile-o-radios. #hamradio#project
Cool! Remote imaging test subject found in the bushes! Will have to see if these are visible in Google Earth. Have been here for awhile. #RemoteImaging
After my experience with the phaser (which works, but wasn't well cared for) I am inclined to not buy a big ticket piece of ham gear without testing it for stiff and scratchy pots / still covered in dust and... residue.
Goodness that thing arrived in gross cosmetic condition. At least wipe the thing down, dude.
Hmm, 35C and dewpoint of 33C at the METAR for Jay Prakash Narayan Airport (VEPT), Bihar, India. I don't think in Celsius, but I am thinking that is uncomfortable at best, likely heat illness or death at worst. (assuming no A/C). #heatwave#india#vept
Oh <insert expletive> that's a ~91.4 F dewpoint. A lot of older / sick folks here struggle with dewpoints over 70 F. I (and probably a lot of other folks) thought we still had a few decades before stuff like this started happening.
If folks remember my story about waking up in the middle of the night to find an outlet arcing. I finally replaced the outlet. This was the outlet. Thank the shards my house didn’t burn down!
I suspect moist air is coming up the riser from the unsealed, open dirt crawlspace and was condensing in the outlet box over goodness knows how many years. Time to insulate the outlet box and get a vapor barrier under the house.
One of the local universities advertising "50 and Better" classes including courses/lectures on Frank Sinatra, 1950's swing, and "Over The Rainbow" makes me wonder why they are conflating Gen X folks with the boomers here... ("just over 50" are folks who grew up with U2, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.) 🤔
When I was in my late 20s and early 30s I got into the whole Sally Fallon/Nourishing Traditions / Weston A. Price thing. And in my 40s, I learned how a lot of those philosophies, plus the overlap with Waldorf education, came out of the 1920s-1930s eugenics movement… and then a whole bunch of things suddenly made a lot of sense about many of the people I met then, and their almost fanatical devotion to raising natural, pure, unblemished children.
"$200+ for an arborist throw line launcher!?!? I can make my own for $20".
It.... kind of works? (Video in thread).
The surgical tubing I bought isn't quite robust enough and it turns out pouches to hold the throw bag are a whole school of engineering unto themselves. I ended up spending $35 on a replacement pouch + tubing from an actual arborist throw line launcher. So am in $55 but that's still a lot cheaper than buying one.