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If you want to get licensed I found HamStudy's[1] learning method the most efficient use of my time and was able to breeze through Technician and General class. Their "Find a Session"[2] page makes it easy and inexpensive to take the test(s) remotely too.

[1]: https://hamstudy.org

[2]: https://hamstudy.org/sessions


Incandescent or LED?


Incandescent :)

It was FT8, which is a weak signal data mode. Very often you can make contacts hundreds of miles away using less than 20 watts.

However, I was probably using between 40-100 watts for that contact - you can't get much further apart on earth than we were!


I've done both. If you and your remote station have good antennas, a low local noise floor, and the right atmospheric conditions, a little power can take you to the other side of the planet.


Probably the former but possibly the latter. Sometimes "conditions" are such that a tiny amount of power will go a very long way. Right now, near the peak of the solar cycle, 4 watt CB radios are sometimes heard thousands of miles away.


It might be possible those CBs heard that far away are actually 4 watts - but it's much more likely they're illegally boosting their output.

Still, you're totally right that in ideal conditions propagation can be astounding.


I regularly contact Europe from the Chicago area with a very modest antenna using five watts


A heat pump water heater seems phenomenal to me in an Austin attic. And I use the cold air generated to cool a wiring/server closet. Win/win.


Maybe I am naive but whatever it takes to bring critical manufacturing back to the United States is a good thing.


Are you sure about that?

I just ordered the UV-K5 from Amazon sold by Quansheng and it is labeled as having USB C charging.

There's also a third party seller with an item description of "UV-K6 UV-K5(8)". That listing seems fishy.

I don't see a "UV-K6" listed on the Quansheng web site [1].

EDIT: After more research it looks like the UV-K5(8) is also known as the UV-K6 [2]. I'm curious which model I receive.

[1]: http://en.qsfj.com/products/?series=3

[2]: https://hagensieker.com/2024/03/12/quansheng-uv-k6-radio-rev...


Yes it has a usb-c port on it which you can charge with a type-a to type-c cable.

The problem is that it violates the spec by omitting the resistor and you can't charge it with a c to c cable. That's where the frustration comes from.



Is there an advantage to multi carat support over vim substitution that I am missing? It seems like a solution in search of a problem.


I was thinking the same, is it if you want to replace multiple selections that have different content with the same replacement content. If so, it's not something I can think of ever doing, and in the few cases that I may want to, just do multiple search and replaces, or is there another use case?


It's what I'm wondering, too. Especially since refactoring support in IntelliJ IDE seems quite powerful, even for languages like Python that use a ton of strings.


There was a time that's all we had when using Windows [1]. It was weird.

[1]: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5891/how-...


What is the difference between UDIMM and RDIMM and which one is preferred and why?

It seems RDIMM’s are mostly supported on higher end server boards but I haven’t seen a technical comparison of the two types.


RDIMMs have buffers on the memory lines to improve signal integrity, this is only helpful when there are many slots on the same memory controller channel. (ex. Servers often support 4 DIMMs per channel)


I think RDIMMs are available in higher capacities than UDIMMs. But the registering adds additional latency. So if you need the capacity, RDIMM is the way to go. But if you don't, you might prefer UDIMMs.


The Greatest Shot In Television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ


On episode 4 of the new season, at about 24 minutes in, they do almost the exact same monologue, but it's all CGI.


I agree, but there's a cut at 44 seconds.


With the most recent 2.3.6 release of Hubitat HomeKit support is no longer in beta.

https://community.hubitat.com/t/release-2-3-6-available/1247...


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