Ok friends, tell me about the radio stations.
Edit: thanks friends, you never disappoint. I’ll be reading if you need me.
Buy a Baofeng UV-5R, unlock the frequency band, and start scanning.
Assuming you’re just receiving, why not get an RTL-SDR? :-D
RTL-SDR is a whole rabbit hole of its own. I love having a thumb sized scanner that has the capabilities of scanners that cost hundreds more. Wild stuff
Is the UV-5G mini ok? Or should I cancel my order and get the UV-5R?
It should be ok - it’s just that the UV-5R has sort of become the defacto budget amateur radio standard at this point so there’s more documentation and software made for it.
I’m sure the UV-5G mini will work for your needs.
My dad got 2 of those and i tried to do cool things with it but in the end, all i was able to do was load in a list of specific frequencies around us and scan around until it connects to something. It wasn’t particularly interesting stuff either XD
I’d recommend repeaterbook.com to find the local repeaters near you and potentially info on when the local radio clubs have their “nets.”
You could also look at the arrl band plan to see what frequencies people would even ever talk on:
https://www.arrl.org/band-plan
You’d likely be interested in the 2 meter, 1.25 meter and 70 cm bands, and the gmrs frequencies.
Oh for sure - the knowledge comes in handy in times of emergency like natural disasters or infrastructure accidents though. Make sure to save your local emergency services frequency bands and see if any local hams have something allocated for those times as well.
Sometimes it just comes in handy for fun purposes as well - managed to snoop into the construction workers’ radio frequency at my uni and had a conversation with one of them XD
A lot of the old ICOM and Yaesu radios were easy to open up for full range function. My multiband ICOM HT only required desoldering one resistor. After that could broadcast on 2M and 440, GRMS, police/fire/emergency bands, and even the comm system radios my employer used. Haven’t kept up, but today’s radios are probably just as easy to unlock.
Great. I think I could raid the local equivalent of the Japanese Hard-Off thrift stores for those radios.
HAM
I’m not autistic…
Reads post…
Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.
:3c
The Autistim guy I know can tell you US zip codes so you don’t have to look them up
Fun fact - zip codes used to somewhat correspond with phone numbers until the late 90s - you could use the first 3 digits to narrow down a geographic location, the following 3 for a population center like a city or county, and the remaining 4 are independent. That’s no longer the case nowadays though.
Not so fun fact - in the US the zip code eerily corresponds to your life expectancy, quality of life, and access to important services and quality education. Even if you leave after your developmental years, that starting location can impact your entire life.
now you are making me angry at my little brother. he moved, voluntarily, from a good QoL area to a moderate QoL area. Easiest measure to judge by, the average life expectancy for the towns he lived in, he went from 89 to 85. He did that over politics, not money. Little dipshit.
Back when I spent the night at a Swedish airport I spent most of the morning shooting the shit with a lady coming back home from some tropical place. She’d previously worked in a government position, and after clearing up some gender confusion, she told me that before 1990 the final digits in our personal identity numbers used to correspond to where you were born as well as your gender. Nowadays it’s just your gender.
Our “person numbers” are essentially your date of birth combined with 4 digits, YYYYMMDD-XXXX.
Thus if you’ve a PID looking like 19890221-0271, you can infer that the person is a man born in Stockholm on the 21st of February 1989. This isn’t a valid PID however, as it doesn’t pass the Luhn algorithm.
Minor segue; trans people can and do get their PID changed to reflect them being man/woman rather than the gender assigned at birth. Non-binary people are unfortunately not represented.
Back in 1990 they changed the “place of birth” bits of the PID and is now assigned randomly. Up until then there were also a range of digits assigned if you were born outside of Sweden and had emigrated. Perhaps in the future they’ll do away with the gendering and just have the numbers assigned randomly.
Or they might not.
Elaborate on the life expectancy thing, please?
Housing in the US tends to be separated out by class and ethnicity. US society is designed to perpetuate class and race relations with little social mobility, and to treat people primarily according to their class and race rather than by their individual differences. People try, but everybody tries so that cancels out.
So most of the variance in quality of life someone will lead is determined by their race and class which are accurately measured by ZIP code (plus birth year).
The cool thing is this proves capitalism is more about class warfare than about profit. Trump can bankrupt a casino but because he’s upper class he kept getting offered money faster than he could waste it, while a lower class person who gets rich by chance is treated like an invader and gets systematically mistreated until their quality of life returns to the norm.
What Tiresia mentioned, along with other factors such as pollution and industry zoning as well (housing near industrial areas for example has higher rates of cancer)
For purely informational purposes, what are some examples of “illegal tools?” 🤔 👀
boring answer but probably something like security torx or apple’s pentalobe bit
Or lockpicks. Legality is… varying, from fully legal to possession is a crime.
“boring answer” = “interesting answer” under a cisvergent lense.
Even things like what you used to be able to find on Hiren’s Boot CD could be called “illegal” by the less knowledgeable. Software like Wire Shark. They’re just tools.
Flipper Zero
They’re not illegal in themselves. They’re perfectly legal to own but they can be used for illegal things.
Iirc the flipper zero is specifically outlawed in a number of countries.
Dunno about the US though.
From what I can tell, it’s only in Brazil there’s an issu with them.
POGO password cracker on a USB drive explicitly labeled as “Not for Export” since the encryption/decryption algorithm on it technically counts as munitions.
soda can. 14 inch shoelace. uh, FOOF probably
McGuyver found.
nah, the 14 inch shoelace i’m making fun of the ATF (a friend of mine specifically). here is the decision (doesn’t name him) reversing his finding.
the funniest part is, the original decision didn’t quite find that a 14 inch shoelace was an automatic firearm, it just described how a 14 inch shoelace could modify a regular semiautomatic firearm into an automatic firearm. And of course bureaucratic government language meant that that 14 inch length of bootlace with a loop in the end was by definition an automatic firearm.
dude and i haven’t talked in over a decade, we drifted apart over politics (he’s far right. i am decidedly not) which is a shame. he is one of the funniest people i’ve known, but, uh. wish he could see the damage he’s done and doing.
also, you’re not going to believe me. i know it looks wrong too. that’s why i call it Angusing now
I just need to use the bathroom. I will buy a… checks sign… clandestine radio station.
no worries friend. our bathroom is open to all, not just our clandestine radio station customers.
Well, vacuum cleaners mented. Im the kind of a clean autist who are overly interested about vacuum cleaners.
Lemmy has a vacuum cleaner person now?!
The internet is healing 🥰
Yes. But Im more interested in daily use rather than fixing it. Im obsessed with vacuum cleaners since 2020 or smth (or the peak year of my vacuum cleaner autism), I used to be scared of em before for sensory reasons.
This is an invitation to share more, if you’d like to 🙂
One day, I will ask you for help and I trust you will be there for me :)
me too, friend. idk how to fix them, but i think they’re really cool and i like to use them.
Eh, I guess. I’ve built a relationship with my AuDHD wife for more than 25 years. :) (Severe ADHD here. I hit high on some of the autism indicators, but zero on the texture/obsession stuff, so who the hell knows. heh)
I have a different type of ND, but I learned all the local edible wildlife and shit. Forage life is delicious
my people.
Don’t forget to download wikipedia fellas!
done!
I have every NES game. All of them.
You forgot to include Emergency Alert System fans.
The alternate wail of a Federal Signal T1003 will never not be music to my ears.
i forgot a lot of us
I once recorded the voiceover for one of those when I was a preteen … my mom worked at a radio station. Back when it was called the emergency broadcast system. They used it for a couple years after, I would cringe when it came on because I hated hearing my voice…
That makes you a certified cool person in my book :)
can see past your bullshit
The talkers out there even find that ability “uncanny”.
Trains!!!
I like trains. There should be more rail and more trains.
Agreed. I can’t wait for the super line theyre supposed to be building where I live!
I really need to get tested…
