We ended up besting our last year record. We ran 2B (battery) and it was a little challenging early on making SSB QSOs with 5w but we pulled through. Did a lot of digital this year. Could have done better but we were plagued with bad weather and thunderstorms.

Worked all bands but 10m wasn’t good.

I’ll check it out. I’ve been using Breezy Weather and have been happy with it as well.

In addition to what @shortwavesurfer has, I would like to add you go through your house and look for noise inside. I found many noisy electronic devices when I did. I suspect you are more likely to find interferences this way. The call is often coming from inside the house.

I have an OCFD which has the long leg within ~20ft of the neighborhood lines but the don’t cross. I don’t hear any noise but it is at about a 45° angle to the lines. I have a “kinda ugly” common mode choke I built and put up with the antenna so I can’t tell you if it’s choking out noise but I would suggest you use one. If you hear interference, you should contract your power company and let them know because the lines aren’t supposed to be interfering (at least in the US).

Depending on your geometry and distance between your antenna and the power lines, there may be impacts on your reception and transmission. I don’t know enough about thee physics, though.

I believe the band error arises when you have a frequency programmed outside the allocation (amateur vs commercial) for the radio. It must be set in the CPS as well but don’t remember where but it is one of the first/early settings you should set.

I would recommend looking it up on the Bridgecom YouTube videos. They can be tedious but they also have some very useful information.

I think what you’re looking for is in the Optional Settings > Key Functions tab of the CPS. After you’ve saved your codeplug, you need to load it to the radio.

What do you mean by “unlock?”

I have an AT-878UVII+ and I only know of 2 options available - amateur or commercial.

I figured it out.

In the settings, if you set up an email address to forward you emails, you won’t receive them over the air.

I wouldn’t recommend the AT-878uvII+ (or the 878uv) as a first rig. It is a good radio (I have one) but it is DMR and uses a Windows-only CPS that isn’t user friendly to program the rig. Similarly, it is a bear to program on the rig. Unless you really want to get into DMR (is there activity in your area?), I would suggest the king of all HTs - the Radio Shack HTX-202 (I have one as well). They’re easy to program on the rig, true FM, have a superhetrodyne receiver, are a classic, and can be found at reasonable price on eBay. Drawbacks - only 2m, big, squelch seems sensitive to some of my computer monitors, and you’ll probably need to buy a wall charger and new battery.

Ok. I’ve put in a SSD, I’m looking to add RAM (I may be already maxed out), and run zswap, etc. I guess I’ll be sticking with LibreOffice.

I use the laptop for ham radio stuff, mostly, and things like an office suite are secondary.

How is it on resources? I have a i386 project computer running Debian 12 and I’m looking to make it as “modern” as possible. Right now, my fight is with slow browsers and LibreOffice (I’m trying to avoid the Abiword, etc route).

Increasingly, it really doesn’t need to die. Digital modes are available for enhanced AM which could provide shudder stereo and more.

It does provide a benefit - but to the very greedy, very few. If there was ever parity, the bands would be filled with their greed noise.

Until another company gets a license and does it themselves which will lead to more looking for licenses… until the band is useless trash filled with interference.

And we thought the woodpecker was bad.

I’m hoping the comments against this terrible are heard over the filthy lucre the “liquidity generators” are throwing at politicians.

The radio spectrum is a common good and needs to be regulated accordingly.

These videos exist for monetization purposes.

Does anyone know if one where to view videos through Piped, NewPipe, FreeTube, etc the view would count towards engagement?

Basically, it’s the same upgrade procedure as Debian’s with the added step of editing rasp.list.

No. They can be fed wherever is convenient.

I think a 40m EFHW might be your best option. If you can keep the antenna up for extended time, you can make a window bulkhead with some wood or you can buy one of the fancy ones MFJ makes. Otherwise, you could just run your coax to the antenna and then tie (with parachord or similar) the ends to the tree, etc and something sturdy inside.

A more expensive solution would be to use a magloop inside. You could also get a vertical and put it in the yard and run coax to it.

I know where you’re coming from. I have direct access to my music at home and use Strawberry to play them.

Plex (as far as I know) is only “free as in beer,” so i doubt you’re going to have any success finding a 3rd party music player. I have the Linux app for when I’m away and don’t want to use my phone but the tiny, Android-sized Plexamp app on my desktop is out of place, and has its own eq, compression, etc.

I was a Xubuntu user for about 15 years but have an old EeePC running Debian.

I just recently moved my main, home computer (10+ yo EliteBook) to Debian 12 and am very happy. I will be soon moving my amateur radio “shack” computer (bought last year) to Debian as well.

Forcing Snaps and Snaps’ terrible usage of disk space (in my experience) is what made me move. The annoying Firefox update warning only served to aggravate me further.

I do use a couple Flatpaks (did with Ubuntu as well) but it was my choice - not a requirement. I haven’t had any disk use problems or bad experiences with them.