Blaise

I climb the tallest tree around before attempting to use my radio...

Lately? It was that way when *I* got here... https://forums.mygmrs.com/topic/3842-radio-hatred/ Nerd stuff always draws gatekeepers and jackasses people with deficient social skills. And since those are the folks who like to run their mouths the most, they're the ones you hear.

I don't follow. As far as I can tell, the vast majority of GMRS users *aren't* hams...

I mean, given how aggressive and rude all your posts *here* are, I assume they ignore you because they want nothing to do with you. Maybe someone with manners and a good attitude would do better? I'm sure they couldn't do worse...

I was adapting an oldie, but a goodie!

You know, every radio is illegal, if you use it wrong enough...

"As I mentioned in my previous missive on the matter..."

*Researches* Holy shit! Of course the atmosphere has different refractive properties depending on density! With all the "Fields and Waves" bullshit they shoved into my head, I have no idea how I never realized this. The atmosphere is a gradient prism...

Ahh! So it was just luck of the draw... Well, I suppose that still really validates the strength of the technology. A milliwatt transmitter that can be detected 800 miles away under *any* circumstances seems pretty impressive...

OK, here's one for the folks that actually understand how EM propagation works in practice: A couple of years ago, the current distance record was set for LoRa at more than 800 miles. The communication was between a fishing boat and one of the buoys in its fishery across open ocean. https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/new-lora-world-record-1336-km-830-mi Frankly, I'm confused as to how that happened when, by my best guestimates, the unit on the buoy has a horizon at around 4 miles. The one on the boat, due to its greater height, had a horizon at more like 15 miles, but that still doesn't make it better! Now, I was under the impression that signals in the 800-1000 MHz range sere strictly line of site, with neither ground nor sky propagation. Nonetheless, this event would imply that either I'm completely wrong about how EM propagation works, or somebody's fibbing...

I believe bubble-gum is the standard...

I spent a decade in this Asia too. The one thing I never understood was why they would sometimes do both, using a spelling of their westernized Chinese (etc.) name with such bad phonics that westerners couldn't help but pronounce it wrong. So now they had the 'westernized' name they introduced themselves to you with, the name everyone who hadn't spoken closely with them or been corrected used for them based upon spelling, and their original Asian name. Somehow, we survived the 90s...

You need to look out for those krakens...

This man governments!

What about the protestors? Are they using GMRS too?