No worries! It’s a cool hobby. Getting licensed was a bucket list item, as nerdy as that sounds. Still gotta learn Morse code but I hope to one of these days. Seeing some old heads tapping away at a local HAM event was pretty damn cool.
I did - I’ve got my general license. Missed extra by 2 questions despite not studying for it whatsoever.
Honestly I’ve been doing this for like 2 years now and I’ve not really keyed up and transmitted in the amateur radio sense, just GMRS walkie talkie stuff with the homies. Still, it’s super cool being able to listen. Picking up satcom stuff is just neat. I also take it to the airport and listen to the pilots talk with tower/ground crew.
One of these days I’ll transmit for real, but I have no problem following the “LURK MOAR” guideline as applied to amateur radio as I learn the culture.
You can buy a cheap Chinese HT like a Quansheng UV-K6 for like $40. These have open firmware and there’s a bunch of custom options radio nerds have whipped up. Get the USB programming cable even if you’re not doing custom FW, makes programming frequencies and tweaking options much easier. You’ll also need a license and in the US, HamStudy.org has the exact questions from the test. There’s a ton of YouTube channels you can watch and books you can read for general purpose radio knowledge. Then it’s just a matter of getting a proper antenna and pointing it in the right place at the right time; there’s free resources online, paid apps, all that is out there and it’s just a matter of wanting to learn it. The actual hardware you need to get started is really cheap these days.
You’d be better served learning how to do it yourself. It’s not hard and it’s a pretty cool skill to have (amateur radio).
They wish they were in an antenna and going out as radio waves, but instead they’re in a dummy load and not going anywhere. 50ohm is a common antenna impedance.
Locking your phone and Lockdown Mode are drastically different things.
Look ashamed and maybe do a single flash of my hazards.
They’re also part of the rising surveillance state. Fuck these cameras.
The cone snail referenced in the study you linked, Conus geographus, also has the same ion channel disrupting venom that is typical of cone snails. If you were bit by one, you’d die of paralysis. It does appear to use an insulin-like peptide to initially stun the fish, but the coup de grâce is from typical paralytic conotoxins.
A cool discovery nonetheless and TIL. Neat.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25301479/
Conus geographus is the most dangerous cone snail species known, with reported human fatality rates as high as 65%. Crude venom gland extracts have been used to determine animal LD50 and to aid the isolation of several potent paralytic toxins. […]The molecular composition of individual defense-evoked venom showed significant intraspecific variations, but a core of paralytic conotoxins including α-GI, α-GII, μ-GIIIA, ω-GVIA and ω-GVIIA was always present in large amounts, consistent with the symptomology and high fatality rate in humans.
Who’s smart enough to compile usernames off the subs listed throughout that thread?
I’m a former biochemist and my university studied conotoxins for use as analgesics. Cone snail venom as commonly understood are ion channel blockers. I’ve not heard of what you’re mentioning until now, but when you mention “cone snail venom”, most biology people are thinking of ion channel blockers. This is their primary method of disabling prey.
If you’re bit by a cone snail and try to drink some soda to counteract the toxin, you’re going to have a bad time. They’re called cigarette snails because you’ve got time to smoke one cig before you die - and not from low blood sugar.
From your source:
For example, fish-hunting cone snails use a “motor cabal” to disrupt the propagation of action potentials at the neuromuscular junction. Motor cabal toxins include those that block presynaptic voltage-gated calcium channels (CaV), postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR), and voltage-gated sodium channels (NaV) on muscle cells6.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conotoxin
As of 2005, five biologically active conotoxins have been identified. Each of the five conotoxins attacks a different target:
It’s got nothing to do with insulin or glucose levels, though. It blocks either sodium or potassium channels, can’t remember off the dome. Temporarily ruins the electrical conductivity of nerves.
Edit: I stand corrected.
Definitely try one stick.
It could be the CPU that’s bad - memory controller is on CPU these days. I’m not totally up to speed on AMD voltage names but I’d check whatever CPU voltage is for the memory controller as well as doing a single stick test.
Does it pass with one stick on XMP timings?
FWIW, I always set the main timings and voltage manually on my motherboard. My motherboard always gets the last timing wrong. I can’t recall the exact one ATM, but it’s auto set to like 52 rather than 36, something like that.
Ori isn’t bad. I’d not consider it “souls like” in the slightest.
There are amateur radio data protocols but it’s slow as fuck.
Ultimately, nothing is waterproof; everything leaks.
Radio is the OG fediverse and I want to promote decentralization and self-sufficiency. Amateur radio is a lot easier and more accessible than you might think.