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
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
POGO password cracker on a USB drive explicitly labeled as "Not for Export" since the encryption/decryption algorithm on it technically counts as munitions.
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.
I'm about to start with meshtastic. A few years ago, my wife bought some "illegal" FRS/GMRS radios, and it was cheaper and easier to get my GMRS license than it was to return the radios, and that whole process opened up a world of invisible bullshit I could get lost in.
I got the Baofeng fever a bit ago and I made a radio "Go Box"
I designed and 3d printed the center console. it has a battery and an onboard trickle charger and the USBs will charge the radios
Oof. Sorry, didn't mean to call you out on your "illegal" rig. Looks nice though. My set up is just a couple of midland radios. I give one to my wife when she's chatty and tries to hold a convo with me from her office upstairs.
Yah, been messing with meshtastic and have built [counts on figurers how many nodes ive built] and Reticulum is new and is on the to do list. [Checks increasingly long list of stuff to do]...
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 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...
The only things the image is wrong about is being a railway buff and operating a radio station, although I've been looking into setting up a meshtastic network for my group of friends.
So maybe I'm not autistic as I do not fit the exact description? I do collect loads of stuff I don't use, can't get rid of anything, go crazy on perfect cable management, am more interested in collecting tools and make a perfect work station than actually use it, failed school even though I'm not lacking intelligence, I got diagnosed 10 years ago, I struggle with social situations, I don't get people their sarcasm and people don't get mine, I'm a perfectionist, I remember useless facts about everything but I forget anything useful, I dislike the taste of mushrooms because of it's structure, I edited this text 4 6 times already because I came up with more stuff after I was finished and can't stand it being incomplete, I'm going to think about what else I missed for the rest of the day so I can't do anything else anymore but I will be too tired to come back and change the text even more, ....
85 Comments
xorollo@leminal.space · 44 pts · 181d
Ok friends, tell me about the radio stations.
Edit: thanks friends, you never disappoint. I'll be reading if you need me.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 181d
Buy a Baofeng UV-5R, unlock the frequency band, and start scanning.
obinice@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 181d
Assuming you're just receiving, why not get an RTL-SDR? :-D
SubUrbanIT@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
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
picnicolas@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 181d
Is the UV-5G mini ok? Or should I cancel my order and get the UV-5R?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 180d
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.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 180d
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
whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 180d
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.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 180d
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
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 180d
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.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 180d
Great. I think I could raid the local equivalent of the Japanese Hard-Off thrift stores for those radios.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 180d
HAM
estrange_alien@leminal.space · 5 pts · 181d
examples
North American Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 180d
I'm starting to think autistic people are the normal ones, and everyone else is chronically sick/medicated.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 180d
there's a reason autism is still politely demonized, at least in the US. we are hard to govern
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 180d
Maybe autistic people should be leaders then.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 180d
Unfortunately they're just like regular people, so you have good autistic people but also absolute bastards with autism.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 180d
I'm not autistic...
Reads post...
Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.
CCF_100@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 180d
:3c
robocall@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 181d
The Autistim guy I know can tell you US zip codes so you don't have to look them up
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 180d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 180d
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.
Dojan@pawb.social · 4 pts · 180d
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.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 180d
Elaborate on the life expectancy thing, please?
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 180d
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.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 180d
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)
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 181d
For purely informational purposes, what are some examples of “illegal tools?” 🤔 👀
jahtnamas@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 181d
boring answer but probably something like security torx or apple's pentalobe bit
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 181d
Or lockpicks. Legality is... varying, from fully legal to possession is a crime.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 180d
"boring answer" = "interesting answer" under a cisvergent lense.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 181d
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.
KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 181d
Flipper Zero
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 181d
They're not illegal in themselves. They're perfectly legal to own but they can be used for illegal things.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 180d
Iirc the flipper zero is specifically outlawed in a number of countries.
Dunno about the US though.
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 180d
Legal in the US, looking at mine on my desk right now.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 180d
From what I can tell, it's only in Brazil there's an issu with them.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 180d
soda can. 14 inch shoelace. uh, FOOF probably
Kojichan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 180d
McGuyver found.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
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
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 180d
POGO password cracker on a USB drive explicitly labeled as "Not for Export" since the encryption/decryption algorithm on it technically counts as munitions.
BashakHimanself@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 180d
Well, vacuum cleaners mented. Im the kind of a clean autist who are overly interested about vacuum cleaners.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 180d
Lemmy has a vacuum cleaner person now?!
The internet is healing 🥰
BashakHimanself@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 180d
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.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 180d
This is an invitation to share more, if you'd like to 🙂
lastweakness@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 180d
One day, I will ask you for help and I trust you will be there for me :)
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 180d
I just have a shitty vaccuum and have to tix it like every time I use it.
estrange_alien@leminal.space · 1 pts · 180d
me too, friend. idk how to fix them, but i think they’re really cool and i like to use them.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 181d
I just need to use the bathroom. I will buy a… checks sign… clandestine radio station.
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 180d
I just started screwing around with Meshtastic, build you a node or two. Or make nine of them like I did.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 180d
I'm about to start with meshtastic. A few years ago, my wife bought some "illegal" FRS/GMRS radios, and it was cheaper and easier to get my GMRS license than it was to return the radios, and that whole process opened up a world of invisible bullshit I could get lost in.
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 180d
I got the Baofeng fever a bit ago and I made a radio "Go Box"
I designed and 3d printed the center console. it has a battery and an onboard trickle charger and the USBs will charge the radios
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
Did you get a HAM license to broadcast, or are you just listening?
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 180d
I got a GMRS license, I know they're technically still not legal, I never transmit off GMRS frequencies.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
Oof. Sorry, didn't mean to call you out on your "illegal" rig. Looks nice though. My set up is just a couple of midland radios. I give one to my wife when she's chatty and tries to hold a convo with me from her office upstairs.
xorollo@leminal.space · 2 pts · 180d
Oooo this is pretty
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 179d
Thank you.
estrange_alien@leminal.space · 3 pts · 180d
i want to mess around with Meshtastic! and also - Reticulum
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
Yah, been messing with meshtastic and have built [counts on figurers how many nodes ive built] and Reticulum is new and is on the to do list. [Checks increasingly long list of stuff to do]...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 180d
no worries friend. our bathroom is open to all, not just our clandestine radio station customers.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 181d
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)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 180d
I have a different type of ND, but I learned all the local edible wildlife and shit. Forage life is delicious
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 181d
my people.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 180d
Don't forget to download wikipedia fellas!
estrange_alien@leminal.space · 5 pts · 180d
done!
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 180d
I have every NES game. All of them.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 180d
You forgot to include Emergency Alert System fans.
The alternate wail of a Federal Signal T1003 will never not be music to my ears.
estrange_alien@leminal.space · 4 pts · 180d
i forgot a lot of us
Malfeasant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
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...
silverneedle@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 180d
That makes you a certified cool person in my book :)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 180d
The talkers out there even find that ability "uncanny".
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 180d
Is being autistic just not being an asshole now.
Kojichan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 180d
Trains!!!!
Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 180d
I like trains. There should be more rail and more trains.
Kojichan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
Agreed. I can't wait for the super line theyre supposed to be building where I live!
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 180d
I really need to get tested…
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 180d
Roughly a description of me lol
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 180d
Oh fuck then I think we both might be autistic.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 179d
Whaaaat are you serious? :O
The only things the image is wrong about is being a railway buff and operating a radio station, although I've been looking into setting up a meshtastic network for my group of friends.
So maybe I'm not autistic as I do not fit the exact description? I do collect loads of stuff I don't use, can't get rid of anything, go crazy on perfect cable management, am more interested in collecting tools and make a perfect work station than actually use it, failed school even though I'm not lacking intelligence, I got diagnosed 10 years ago, I struggle with social situations, I don't get people their sarcasm and people don't get mine, I'm a perfectionist, I remember useless facts about everything but I forget anything useful, I dislike the taste of mushrooms because of it's structure, I edited this text
46 times already because I came up with more stuff after I was finished and can't stand it being incomplete, I'm going to think about what else I missed for the rest of the day so I can't do anything else anymore but I will be too tired to come back and change the text even more, ....So I don't know. Can't say for certain.
Clbull@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
These seem like some awfully specific examples....
FatVegan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 180d
I sent that to my girlfriend and she asked me why i wrote that down
Aeri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 178d
Illegal tools you say?
tronx4002@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 180d
I would love to know of these clandestine radio stations
estrange_alien@leminal.space · 2 pts · 180d
Pirate Shortwave Radio
tronx4002@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
This is very cool, are know of any sublemmings for this?
estrange_alien@leminal.space · 1 pts · 179d
i see a few amateur radio communities but that’s it.