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.

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

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.

For example, I tried to recreate the Powerlifting community here and it’s completely dead lol. It’s just me posting a couple times per week hoping someone else joins me. There are around 50 subscribers but they only upvote my posts.

They’re pretty much polar opposite ideologies.

I just blocked them on Mastodon. Thanks!

Yes. I think it’s because I’m a monthly supporter though. It seems to have a big psychological effect in that I want my money’s worth, and I want Lemmy to succeed. So I comment and post quite a bit to help keep communities active.

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.

Yeah it’s a fun one lol. I haven’t opened it in like two weeks so I’m sure I’ve missed out already.

I actually just started this. What’s wrong with it?

That’s what my wife says. I want to sell our gun and she’s anti-gun too. But she doesn’t want to get rid of our gun until guns are banned.