You should check out Ham Radio Crash Cpurse on YouTube. Lots of great info there.

We have a similar one here in the US. People think if you go outside when it’s too cold, you’ll get sick.

They’re pretty much baofengs with much better filtering, so you don’t get front end overloading which can be frustrating.

Isn’t it maintained again?

Most activity, I’ve seen here: !amateurradio@lemmy.ko4abp.com but there’s a lemmy bug that’s not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.

These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016123

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015573

They are fine for starting out with, but you’ll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.

Ham radio! It’s relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.

Using lemmy is well worth the $5 per month I give them.

All the ones mentioned mostly. But also Linux in the Ham Shack.

The boosts segment annoys the hell out of me for some reason. I just don’t want to hear about crypto.

Try this. It might look a little familiar https://mlmym.org/midwest.social/

Spreading this around when I can. Here’s how you can personally block threads.net:

https://mastodon.social/@crowgirl@hachyderm.io/110663465300686570

Haha nice

I put on ska on easy days sometimes. Today I listened to Supernothing by Streetlight Manifesto like 3 times.

It’s near enough the big city that I can go do fun things when I want, but it’s quiet here and not a lot of traffic.

Fucking beans

They’re pretty much polar opposite ideologies.

I just blocked them on Mastodon. Thanks!

Take my upvote /s

That’s already happening here in AskLemmy. 90% of the posts are support questions, and there’s a sticky and a sidebar rule specifically banning those.