What are you using for the stand? I'm going to take some measurements as I've got 2 ultrawides, and now I'm wondering if a 3rd would fit on my desk in that orientation.
I tried setting up an old monitor as a portrait display but it had a crappy TV grade panel, so that didn't last past setting it up and going "interesting, I don't like it".
Well, I tried building my own ¼-wavelength monopole with the metal railing and everything it's attached to as the ground plane, but it didn't work very well. :(
I'm targeting 6-meter with this, but I thought it'd make sense to use the middle of the band (52 MHz) as the target, so I did (C / 5200000000) / 4 to get the length of 1.44 meters.
Your counterpoise should be connected to the body of the RF connector. I would use copper wire as the counterpoise, probably at least 2 lengths, 1 in each direction along the railing from the connector. The stainless wire in the railing is fairly resistive and might cause problems, not in the least being it's not 1/4λ+5% long. Change those and see what happens. A VNA would be helpful here.
Don't go overboard on the insulators, nylon fishing line is fine for either end, and any old lump of plastic in the middle.
Solder the connections.
A sleeve balun may help get a better match for transmit. (1/4 wavelength * 0.66 velocity factor of braid along the antenna end of the coax, connected to the coax shield that distance from the antenna)
@zl2tod I think I'd use something a bit more substantial than fishing line. Shock cord for lightweight (10m, 6m) dipoles and feedlines or 10mm stranded nylon rope for bigger antennas. @tk
I noted yesterday, of the 10 BRICS nations, seven were on [Putin's meat puppet's] Tariff list.
The three who were not are Russia, Iran and Ethiopia. After decades of sanction, there ready is little trade with Iran. Ethiopia export ~$500M, of which ~$160M is coffee (2023 data).
That leaves Russia. I think you might be onto something.
If you can't be bothered, can't figure out, or won't pony up the cash for a different platform then, frankly, I think you're not actually all that dedicated to the cause.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is pushing forward with its federal cleanup initiative-this time taking on the Social Security Administration&apos
The Guardian reports the opinion of Günther Thallinger, who is on the board of Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurance companies. He thinks that 3°C is the absolute limit for business or govt to absorb the cost of climate collapse.
"The damage at 3C will be so great that governments will be unable to provide financial bailouts and it will be impossible to adapt to many climate impacts."
This is not at all surprising. The idea has been expressed for years by sober, knowledgeable individuals. Didn’t make one bit of difference, what is Thallinger’s reason for bringing it up if the consequences of 3C are inevitable (and likely underestimated)?
@catsalad the scratchyness the stems had in the '94 generation is unfortunate, considering the superiour spring actuation noise reverb that the higher bromide content of the case plastic gave it.
@catsalad "who are those guys over there only talking about the vintages in 'the original' french?" Oh those are the Model Fs "And that guy over there muttering and squeezing grapes one by one into a bottle?" Beam spring.
@realsimon Not quite! While the EU fairly consistently uses Vienna Convention signs, Canada uses American style signs. Argentina, most of central America, Mexico and Australia use a mix of Vienna Convention signs and American signs with a few creative liberties taken with their own additions.
@BalooUriza @realsimon Ireland, despite being in the EU, never signed the Vienna Convention and pretty much follows that approach too ("mix of Vienna Convention signs and American signs with a few creative liberties taken with their own additions").
Hence the proliferation of yellow warning signs I mentioned in a different reply.
Having lived in Spain for many years, Irish road signs seem weird to me when I go back, but of course seemed perfectly normal when I grew up with them.
@buzzyrobin @realsimon fond memories of trundling along the Bass Highway and spotting a sign which said, in all caps, something like
"LANE MARKINGS REMOVED DO NOT OVERTAKE UNLESS IT IS SAFE TO DO SO"
which was to me a breathtaking statement of the bloody obvious, and completely oblivious to the average driver's reading comprehension while travelling at highway speed
@jackeric @buzzyrobin @realsimon my favorite old Aus road signs were the ones saying "Loose Stones Travel Slowly", which would make a good meaningless proverb
On Thursday—one day after President Donald Trump’s self-branded "Liberation Day"—900 auto workers in Michigan and Indiana were “liberated” from their jobs, thanks to Trump’s new tariffs.
Stellantis NV, which manufactures Ram trucks and Jeeps, announced on Thursday that 900 U.S. workers across five facilities were being temporarily laid off, directly citing Trump’s 25% tariffs on imported cars as the cause.
On Thursday—one day after President Donald Trump’s self-branded " Liberation Day "—900 auto workers in Michigan and Indiana were “liberated” from their jobs, thanks to Trump’s new tariffs.
You may experience longer wait times at Japan's arrival ports thanks to one American. The tourist reportedly brought a handgun & ammunition into Japan, somehow getting it through two airports before realizing his "mistake" at his Osaka hotel. He's now under arrest.
He stood his ground, refused to let them take away his *God-given* Second Amendment rights… and now he’s in handcuffs. Interesting how that works.. /s this can't be real!
Was looking over the breakout sessions at #RedHat Summit, and sure enough... I suspect this is mandatory at every big FOSS event. Every year for decades now I've seen this session, and however much I might wish this were the year I can reasonably expect to see the session come back in 2026. #sysadmin
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street shuddered, and a level of shock unseen since COVID’s outbreak tore through financial markets worldwide Thursday on worries about
# Governor Bob Ferguson’s reticence to approve new taxes represents a major obstacle to closing a big budget hole without deep cuts to social services.
Take a moment to digest what you are witnessing right now.
The very people that go on and on that any kind of affirmative action for disenfranchised individuals is unfair because of a weird belief that markets are inherently fair and moral.
Are the SAME people right now cheering tariffs, an affirmative action to attempt to protect their manufacturing industries from...
We’ve had almost 3 years of capitalists trying to force a recession through massive layoffs that didn’t make any difference because of the covid labor shortage.
The markets tanking is the intended outcome of the tariffs. This is wealth transfer from the middle class to the 1% in action.
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The class war is always the poor versus smarter people
Gas the poor
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