Interesting that they’re pumping back money into traditional radio.

The letter argued that Canada’s radio regulations were designed to address the problems created by its vast geography, its “linguistic duality” (English and French), and the fact that space on analog radio is limited, making decisions about what gets broadcast necessary.

Gee, that’s not the history I remember. I’m not super familiar, but wasn’t it about holding back Americanisation? (We have radio band allocations separately)

I see no problem here.

Well, assuming you see having domestic content as a valid goal, anyway, which isn’t necessarily a given.

That’s pretty much how the Russian economy works right now, in a nut shell. To stop emigration caused by the expensive war, they’re giving away a ton of expensive handouts.

The interest rate is at 19% and counting. Very cool, very sustainable. I have a feeling “the last laugh” will be yours, OP, even if they win in Ukraine.

Disclaimer that I’m still a noob, too.

I gave my main recommendation there, for transceiver. I haven’t done the research to have a model or brand in mind, but a cheap SSB (single side-band) radio seems like it should exist, given that you can make such a device with just 7 transistors. Any remotely modern computer will be able to generate an audio signal that, when mixed up to RF the way a SSB radio does, will look like the mode of your choice. Software-wise, I’ve really liked working with GnuRadio so far.

Amps go for a lot more new, because they have to handle both radio frequencies and >100W powers, and do so without causing distortion. Ham radio is a dying art, so poking around for ones at estate sales or similar seems promising. 100W is generally the recommended minimum if you don’t want to be frustrated.

For the feedline, assuming you’re doing coax, the design tension is between bendability and DB/meter attenuation. For radio 50 ohm impedance is standard, not 75, so you can’t reuse stuff from cable TV without transformers. (Impedance matching is very important, as you’ll learn getting a licence)

For the various accessories you may need to connect cables, amps, antenna wires and maybe filters, Amazon. They even have the obscure stuff I’ve needed for my direct sample radio.

All the prefab antennas I’ve seen seem ludicrously expensive, given that it’s a chunk of ordinary metal, so probably skip that and cut your own. Antenna recipes are all over the place on ham homepages. If you’re doing a bunch of non-resonant antennas, a tuner will save you time, but they cost as much as an amp. Everything that works at the high-power end is expensive.

No, I wasn’t quoting anything there. People are used to choosing who they want to communicate with, sending a message, and everything either working or (rarely) not working. Power, noise, space weather, multipathing, interference and the vagaries of antenna performance all make it a bit more involved when manually operating a radio. And that’s not even getting into whatever you need to make your own setup work.

Yeah, ham radio. If I was doing it all over again, I’d go for the most basic SSB radio I can find that plugs in to a computer sound card - that should in theory be able to do anything reasonable. You’ll also need feed lines, an amp and a large-ish antenna, which is where things get a bit more technical hardware-wise, especially if you’re in an apartment or have something like an HOA, but it nothing you can’t figure out.

And yes, a licence. So far I’ve found the requirements pretty reasonable in my jurisdiction, they relate to not frying yourself or your equipment, and how not to be a menace to other people sharing the radio bands. You used to need to learn Morse code fluently enough to pass a practical test, but most places have gotten rid of that.

It’s mostly stuff you definitely need to know, though, at least in Canada. There’s a bit more to it than sending a text.

Yeah, money talks. China has a non-negligible amount of it, and very, very delicate feelings.

YT link, or URL fragment to add to your favourite IV instance: watch?v=6gbTDZcOkRw

Eh, pretty heavily derived. It’s probably more like heavy sampling.

If you’re also not familiar, in it’s plain http glory: http://www.coboloncogs.org/

That is indeed very cool, and falls squarely into the second case.

Edit: Or maybe the first? (A joke about how insane it would be counts)

It seems non-serious, given the lack of downloads and snail mail as a contact method. If they actually made this, though, reenactment.

You know, I kinda wonder if there’s been more classic threads since the APIocalypse, but not enough to actually endure Reddit.

Ah! That makes sense. I wasn’t expecting мимо to act like a noun in this way. Большое спасибо.

Yup. China might go for Taiwan if they’re sure they can get away with it, but that’s all. I don’t really expect them to dick around with MAD; they’re rational actors, at least at this point in history. Russia’s goose is already cooked, and I doubt an order to attack NATO out of the blue would even be obeyed.

Edit: The article talks about a cluster of unspecified regional wars, which seems much more likely, though.

I mean, if escalation goes all the way there’s not much use to a conventional army anymore.

A necklace of stationary liquid milk would be interesting for a whole other set of reasons.

I, too, would like to hear eldrich silent singing.

Cbat by Hudson Mohawke. Is it actually about sex? Let’s find out.

She had a cheese necklace as funerary attire? I want to join whatever culture did that.

The irony that East Asia now invented cheese, a thing they don’t traditionally eat this historical side of the Han empire.

I mean, if we could build some more damn houses, immigration has been unambiguously great for our economy and general demographics, and Anglo Canadian identity was never a real thing to start with.

It’s alright, someone else already did. I’m skeptical, it sounds like there’s genetic evidence it’s of central Asian origin.