GreggInFL

You're in the right place. I'm new to this as well and have found this group to be very helpful and extremely knowledgeable. Come back any time.

https://san.com/cc/exclusive-evidence-of-cell-phone-surveillance-detected-at-anti-ice-protest/

Yes. My bad. Fixed. Thank you.

With hurricane season underway, our HOA just announced that the board and staff will be monitoring 462.550. Now everyone knows someone will be listening. Including FRS means folks will at least be able to hear updates, even if they can't TX very farz with their $10 HTs. At the next board meeting I'm tempted throw out the idea of a portable, off-grid repeater. This place is too flat with too much vegetation for reliable HT simplex, but a decent antenna on the property high point would make a world of difference.

A friend with a doctorate in industrial psychology once told me that aptitudes for math correspond with aptitudes for music.

Is this true in general?

Fixed. (Apologies to non-sad HAMS, but that was some low-hanging comedic fruit right there.)

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

I have that antenna and it comes with an adapter, so for $34.89 he's all-in.

There are also those that are offline or stale. One needs to click the settings gear in the upper-left corner of the map to turn on the switches. That doesn't change the "type", just drops the filter.

Reminds me of shooting at the range. There are some long-range rifle shooters who consider clays (trap/skeet/sporting clays) to be beneath them. "I shoot at 1,000 yards. What's a long clay shot, 50 yards? Pfft. Too easy." I'd love to get him on the skeet range with a ringer, a 14 year-old girl who recently hit 197 out of 200 at a national tournament.

Yeah, this. I once hit a repeater that was ~30 miles away by standing on top of a parking garage -- with an $18 handheld.

You mean this one?

We are attempting to do something like this in our neighborhood, starting with using a base station to make announcements. 1,500+ acres though the woods may require a serious repeater eventually, but the idea of getting emergency information out to anyone holding a $10 radio is very appealing. We are 24 days into official hurricane season. Tick, tick, tick...

I guess this means I didn't win it. Well, poop.