🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@weezmgk For sure, and that is objectively true... Weird thing is though even on just 40m, which isnt supposed to be for DX, Ive hit 4000 miles plus before... 10m is usually dead and im happy to work it, and yea the dx is a bit easier.. but im really surprised at how easy in the past ive gotten equivelant dx off things as low as 40m

@jerry "Do as I say, not as I do" would be a good title... feel free to take it, but i like yours too.

How is it dark out and im still getting RTTY contacts on 10 meters! lol

@weezmgk while the cycle has certainly opened up the 10m for me, and this was never open during the low... ya know what... im not really getting all that more DX.. largely cause i was always very successful with 20m even during the low... despite having a small foorprint this antenna performs very well.

Another amazing 10 meter contact... this time 5,300 miles to argentina over RTTY!

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@kilroy_was_here

yea tuning up in CW is still the norm unless you have an auto tune... in a pinch you can whistle into the mic too but its not as clean.

@rombat

@rombat

Yea its just cause they put more power into the band.. SSB if you arent talking but are pushig the PTT nothing will come out the antenna... it only puts as much power in aws the volume it hears... If you make a very loud whistle into SSB it would be almost the same as CW (except not quite as clean a tone obviously)

@kilroy_was_here

@rombat

Its not usually the mode but the frequency + power.. i am willing to bet if you switched to FM on the same freq and transmitted youd get your doorbell going off too.

@kilroy_was_here

@rombat

None that I specifically noticed. I get s2.5 to s4 noise floor though and im sure at least some of that is from the house.

Keep in mind the roof top radials act as a sort of shielding from RFI for the active vertical, so they are particularly good for rooftops.

The first time i installed this a decade ago though when id transmit my neighboors backyard light would turn on... which kinda sucked considering iw as running an APRS beacon 10 minutes apart :)

@kilroy_was_here

@bonifartius Sure, but we didnt do that, we talked about effiency, other pollutants, and energy storage... so not sure how that would apply to any disconnect we have in this specific convo.

Just got my first 10 meter contact on the new antenna! 2,400 miles away in washington on 28.1MHz... 59 signal over RTTY.... very happy with this antenna so far

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@bonifartius Thats fine, though im baffled where we might be factually at odds.. As far as I know we didnt disagree on any of the facts.

@khird seitan by itself is nothing special.. but when made right it can be quite tasty.. I enjoy it too...

Anytim eim at a table and says "Can you prepare that gluten free" I usually respond "Whatever gluten you take from their dish you can just put in mine " :)

@bonifartius

> it is if the argument for “green energy” is based on the current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. which it is, that’s why people put things like “born @123ppm” into their profiles here.

Indeed that is what matters for the consumer and our impact on the environment.

> burning plant matter isn’t changing this amount if you do make sure to grow as much as you take.

It absolutely is though... If i burn wood that was obtained by cutting down existing wild trees and not replacing it, then yes I made a **huge** change.

As I said you can do something arbitrary like plant trees in equal number or run a solar panel with a CO2 scrubber to offset the CO2 and have the whole operaton be carbon neutral... but that is not the same as saying that wood is, itself, carbon neutral, it isnt.

As I said before, wood isnt special, you can do ANYTHING to offset carbon, trees, a co2 scrubber, anything, and you will sell a carbon neutral product.

You can literally plant trees and sell gasoline and the gasoline is carbon neutral because its offset by the plants you planted. That doesnt make the same as saying "burning gasoline is always carbon neutral" No gasoline, like trees, is never carbon neutral to burn, it may be part of a carbon neutral supply chain however.

> will the efficiency be as well if the energy is to be stored? we might have more than enough sun here in germany in one half of the year but we can’t store it. same with wind energy.

The effeciency is even higher if you consider storage. Those numbers is just for what percentage of the light is turned to energy vs heat, the storage part is a seperate part of the equation... and going from sun to sugar to electricity has extra steps and is even less effecient then going from electricity to battery to electricity.

> maybe i should add some perspective: i’m not arguing that wind and solar energy are “generally bad” but they are currently sold as panacea here in germany. everything is plastered with wind and solar energy right now. they defacto removed the distance regulation for wind turbines. i think it was 2km, now it’s some hundred meters for the giant ones larger than 200m. solar energy isn’t as crazy, i can’t argue with panels where they let sheep graze underneath.

I certainly have no objection to any issues you have with location of wind turbines and how it might be placed in unwanted locations... thats an issue that is tangental in my eyes... But it very much is a very significant improvement for the environment over lighting stuff on fire, in terms of being carbon neutral (as covered burning plants arent), effecient, and overall far less polluting.

> all while the “greens” try to kill off any use of wood for heating, no matter how sensible it is: i don’t have a link, but there was a story about a sawmill or something like that which burns their leftover wood scraps for heating (with a modern fully automatic device!) and they should replace it with a heat pump. it’s absolute madness here right now.

Burning wood is never sensible compared to other sources... take this example, the act of burning that wood as we covered would release a ton of CO2 and ultimately cause harm as compared to the alternative, burrying it in a ditch somewhere and letting the CO2 remain. If you try to burn it to get energy out of it you just put a ton of CO2 in the air and loose the vast majority of the energy to heat pumped into the air rather than as electricity. You are better off burying the wood and sticking up a solar panel to get that energy in a way that does less harm and actually reduces CO2.