“I AM being respectful.”

It’s just not the case. It’s ok to voice an opinion but we can do so in a manner that doesn’t attack other people, and you did in my opinion.

“This is why our democracy has come so close to failing-and you’re part of the reason why.

Yes, I just said that. Think very carefully before you reply”

That’s a threat.

Let’s take this down a notch. Please refer to rule number 1

Be respectful of others

While not a mod of mastodon.radio, I want this to be civil.

Is there a GitHub issue for this?

0.18.1 exists

Had someone at my local club show this radio off as a great SOTA radio. Really liked the size of it and the features it packed. Was debating on this or the KX2

Still works for me

And I love that but I need to be more cognizant of it. I’ll upgrade us to 0.18.1 soon and that brings some other changes.

Honestly had no idea posting to mastodon would post here as well

Yeah this is pretty awesome. I’ve built some EFHWs but yagis have always kinda made me nervous for some reason. Great build!

If the bigger instance has to push/pull in data from you personal communities because they sub to it, then yes. 1 person not using your front end isn’t going to change much.

it was me… i said that :)

“Allowed Hosts” is white listing btw. You should leave it blank if you want more than just lemmy.world and lemmy.ml

And I wouldn’t say it reduces the load on those sites. It would kind of add to them in a way if you post from your instance or sub from your instance solo. If it’s just you on your instance, it’s barely a blip. May save them some photo hosting if you post.

SOME of the out of sync upvotes/comments are fixed in 0.18.1

I believe some things are populated by your hostname in the lemmy configs so straight IP may break a few things.

1: What is the implication on radiation/reception pattern of ground plane radials above horizontal?

The angle has an affect on the impedance. So if it was angled up 45*, you’d be “shortening” your antenna.

2: Does SWR being lowest with “inverted” radials indicate that the radials are too long?

A guess at this would be that if you’re getting fair SWR with your radials at 45* above the plain, then your antenna is too long.

3: Is ground plane radial length measured from the attachment point…

Yes, the attachment point or “feed point”

Antenna’s are black magic :)

If you’re wanting to really find out where things are being thrown: trim the correct length for the 1/4 wave you’re making then start with the desired angle (45* down is pretty standard for a 1/4 wave) for the radial but add a bit more length than your calculations show, then slowly trim down and test using your meter. Also when you’re testing, make sure there’s no other kind of interference above the radial plane. I’ve had that bite me in the ass.

I think it’s just a general situation. A lot of the “big instances” are having a lot of issues right now with federating correctly. Comments, counts, votes are all off on most instances it seems.

There are a few github issues you can find/follow. It’s supposed to be addressed a bit better int 0.18.1

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101

I started on Twitter in 2008 when you had to SMS to tweet. This downtime since musk started is ridiculous. Glad I moved to mastodon.

(and totally sorry, didn’t mean to comment hijack… just admin worries that I broke something 😅 . I think it’s that markdown expects the http,https at the front)

Nice! I had some small projects on the block and needed a few things.

(Wow clicking that link straight up breaks Firefox iOS. Link goes to lemmy.radio/post/kitsandparts.com. Needs better markdown support)

Defederating and outright banning other instances has become an issue at https://lemmy.radio for sure. You have to stay up on the issues that other instances create. Your example of a net control station is spot on.

I think we’re fortunate as a broader amateur radio “community” that we understand how to police ourselves.

You’re more than welcome to mod at [email protected]

Halfway there https://hackaday.com/2023/01/28/the-voice-of-chatgpt-is-now-on-the-air/