fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 9 hours ago

lol this is a question that could only be asked on lemmy. read what you want but more importantly practice

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 15 hours ago

i'm guessing it wasn't abducted by aliens

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

they stood no chance, never knew what hit them

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

what a way to learn that she was already released

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

You might be better off exchanging them before travel, you would need to look up rates

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

dropped as cleanup-only, not allowed by their policies

i suspect that it might be vibecoded, too

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 21 points 3 days ago

it also happened with tramadol before (different plant)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

- hey chaotic systems are a thing, you can't predict every single last detail

gwern: as a proof that you're wrong, what if we placed everywhere very fast robots that avoid getting into chaotic systems in the first place

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

perhaps, but only americans bitch about it so loud that you can hear it across the ocean

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 115 points 5 days ago (26 children)

average euro prices of fuels would kill american on contact

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

spare a thought and a prayer for all these careers of ambitious propagandists and engagement farmers, dislocated without warning

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

that's way more power than needed to feed 800W out 24/7, what happens with the rest?

 

I'm picking up an idea left by Dick KK4OBI, that you can lower impedance of dipole by arbitrary ratio if said dipole is zigzagged or otherwise uniformly contorted in some meandering shape. Side effect is that dipole becomes shorter and needs more wire. While there's data about impedance for fundamental, there's nothing about harmonics which is something that OCFD might be expected to handle well, so guessing that the really important part is aspect ratio of meander, i've made a couple of VHF-scale models with different meander aspect ratios (and many more much smaller sections), and some of data i've been able to collect roughly matches. The thing I'm trying to figure is what aspect ratio should be to cover multiple bands while using OCFD, say 40-20-15m bands, and whether impedances at different frequencies fall at the same rate. Eventually, when i figure this out, i'll try to make a full size 40m fundamental antenna, as I think that i've figured it out in mechanical terms

However during testing it turned out that I have severe common mode current problems, as two 10mm dia split ferrite beads were evidently not enough, so what little i've been able to collect is mostly useless. When I packed up everything I've found 4 Laird 28B beads that should together give 1100 ohms of impedance or so at 100MHz which also happens to be close to lowest frequency in my setup. Is this enough? Feedline is currently about as long as shorter arm of straight dipole at 22,5:77,5 split ratio, should I change it?

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