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god explaining how much I racked up with CompuServe to my parents was hard as a kid... and then long distance later on when I found a free unix shell I could connect into.. ahhhh those were the days :)

I mean... they did (basically) give access to their entire catalog to radio stations for even less than that.. but I almost sound like a troll mentioning it.

Mmm… power meters mesh in that freq range as I recall as well…

You are literally one day away from the who's hiring and who wants to get hired threads. Review and apply, be willing and honest to discuss strengths and weaknesses. Have interesting projects that you have worked on and can speak about.

Best of luck!

"DATA CENTERS and Virginia have been hand in glove for almost three decades, since companies like MAE-East, Equinix and AOL built some of the earliest modern facilities"

Companies like MAE-East triggers me so much...

I’d debate that Martin likely went to work every day of his life enjoying what he did… for -decades- he got to invent, market and see an entire global ham radio market use his products… he’s one of the good guys, taking a corner of Mississippi and bringing in electronics manufacturing jobs from a niche hobby.

Are they the most reliable? Eh no.. but that’s also half the fun of ham radio… fix it yourself. Now, if I had just purchased a DOA 2kw amplifier maybe not but ;)

I've just got a normal DMR hotspot and I ended up with the GP2009 just because it was stupidly simple to work with.. my only issue is nigh rechargeable batteries don't last as long as I'd like.

I remember having to get an exemption to have my alphanumeric pager in school because my job (pc support for a Fortune 500) required me to have it with me when I got to the office... it was ridiculous but eventually worked out.

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Alternatively I've got a modern DAPnet ham radio alphanumeric pager now that I use occasionally for notifications related to radio stuff. :) (https://hampager.de)

"messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning"

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/part-97#p-97.113(a)(4)

It's intentionally broad, and gives exceptions for controlling satellites as the only real exception.

People try to fight that publishing encryption keys would mean that you are within the intent of the law, I struggled decades ago trying to create a digital voice mode while every OM told me I was trying to encrypt things. sigh.

I can't recommend this entire series enough, Hunkin's work is a masterpiece.

Stopped going to the site/app completely... they were so far off base with the API war it wasn't worth it.

I had one of those boxes, worked for a company that ran news and magazine publishing sites and we pushed all the data to them as opposed to rewriting our search on the sites.. they were pretty decent and seemed to also help our page rankings on the mothersite ;)

This reminds me of the mid 90s when we first started having servers in the colo and you'd need to give a Noc tech the root password to fix things.. our policy was to always have the most offensive root password so you'd never -want- to give it to anyone... god it was fun...

I met Bob twice, he was a honestly nice guy who wanted to further the hobby any way he could.

There is no shame... I remember one period where they hit my town three times in the same year... it was gluttonous and perfect.

I loved that laptop/keyboard back when I was a lowly tech support guy. I can't tell you how many major hotel execs had it ;)

He's got a clock at the exploratorium in San Francisco.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/video/tim-hunkins-tinkerers-cl...

One of the best shows. Between reruns of this and Connections on the old discovery/learning channel, I was a happy kid ;)

10,000 times this. I've bought a handful of Nixplays for my family members, share pictures to them, etc... but an apple ecosystem solution would be great.

You can read the plaque in this link

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/ohio-historical-mark...

Yah, the merger between Sirius and XM was a dramatic difference in programming content. XM had spent most of their time getting quality PM and on air talent, Sirius was basically a glorified Winamp playlist. As the channels merged, you found yourself going from a base of 5000 songs a channel to a few hundred. The folks who used to have XMPCR's (computer connected receivers) published a comparison of songs at one point but my google fu can't find it right now.

Currently doesn't work for the police, however 10,000% this.

yah this is the part that most people who owned a 1st gen spinwheel 5 button iPod g1 are trying to figure out ;) the only logical spot I could think of is maybe the copyright/TOC item?

Reminds me of the coke machine at the computer science house at RIT

https://www.rit.edu/news/recognition-historic-hack-leads-cok...

Isn't that mostly based on the fact that they share rail time? Its not like these tracks are unused in the other periods of time, they're just not Amtrak trains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac... is a start? Probably doesn't take into account contractor lives offsite or heart attacks offsite, etc.

And just to bring back nostalgia -- https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE

DAK was the best... I remember buying my first CD rom drive from them

There is so much truth to this statement -- all ham websites, even my own are straight HTML or at least 10-15 years behind modern web standards... and we like it that way.

Teach them to be proper introverts who can entertain themselves with a book, etc. Toddler life is only for so long... the transition to weekend soccer games where people expect you to remember who they are because you were on a team three years ago and said hi once... thats the real challenge :)