fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 31 minutes ago

The one we can mine is drawn off together with natural gas, and was produced over geological timescales as product of alpha decay of uranium

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

New ones, and not all if them, work this way, as in there's tiny helium condensing unit. Older ones just let it go and require topping up every couple months (guessing by how often helium in NMR is topped up). Also every emergency shutdown invariably blows off all of helium inside

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 1 hour ago

Mate, you're either baiting or need professional medical help

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 11 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 9 points 17 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 2 days 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

 

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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