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current jess status: there is 20 ft of metal conduit on my bed
and now it's not on my bed
it's pretty wobbly but that should be easy to fix on a beach
now i just need to make the antenna part...
@klocxia it's a small collapsable mast for an antenna
@catoutofbed
Neato. But why put an antenna on a beach? Don't people usually put them on top of their houses?
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i can't get it into a good place here
a beach has nothing in the way and a lot less radio noise than the city
@catoutofbed @klocxia ham radio? Nice to see someone else into that on fedi
@catoutofbed @klocxia nice, POES? Which antenna to get the cross polarization or are you not bothering, pointing and praying?
@catoutofbed @klocxia yeah I've done a fair bit with apt. A lot nicer with an sdr because you get that nice wide fm receive bandwidth and its easier to compensate for Doppler.
@catoutofbed @klocxia I've tried a few times with an ft-817 and its not nearly as good as a funcube dongle... If you have the right filters. The fun cube dongles filtering is pretty terrible compared to a larger rig, its just that a typical rig doesn't have wide enough fm bandwidth.
That and our quad helix fell down in a storm a few years ago.
That and our quad helix fell down in a storm a few years ago.
@catoutofbed @klocxia don't recommend the quad helix tbh, quad dipole performed way better. You might have a different experience though.
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What is this for?