seahorse [Ohio]
I run the midwest.social instance as well as the undernopretext.social mastodon instance
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seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOPto Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•My new HF radio set up successfullyEnglish2·5 months agoAlright, good to know. Do you have any recommendations for which choke to buy? Or maybe I should make one? I know other people have snapped the small chokes on other problematic devices’ wires that were causing issues. Was thinking of looking at those as they’re cheapest.
seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOPto Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•My new HF radio set up successfullyEnglish2·5 months agoThis is a different coil than the UnUn on the antenna?
Edit: for reference this is my antenna: https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/PEZ-EF-8010-JRKW
seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOPto Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•My new HF radio set up successfullyEnglish3·5 months agoFrom what I gather just gab on the air about whatever and then there’s like a bazillion challenges for people to try and do. For example, making contact with someone from really far away using the least amount of power as possible.
seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOPto Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•My new HF radio set up successfullyEnglish3·5 months agoYeah, I’m taking a class and then the general test this coming February. So far it seems to do almost everything that I’d want except it doesn’t have a scanning feature, but maybe that’s what the waterfall is for?
seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOPto Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•My new HF radio set up successfullyEnglish3·5 months agoIt can do CW, AM, FM, SSB and some digital stuff I don’t understand yet.
seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOPto Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•My new HF radio set up successfullyEnglish9·5 months agoI think that only works on Twitch
People all over the country are forming unnamed affinity groups to do just that.