It might be worthy of discussion, as are all your other posts, just need to articulate which portion makes your skin crawl.

With this little bit of new information I suspect that maybe it’s bothersome because someone has managed to connect to you through some of your other work?

If that’s the case, then hell yeah. It’s creepy as hell.

US amateurs ought to obtain a PO Box prior to their first application.

Look me up and go to my address and you’ll be greeted by a commercial mail receiving agency.

I refrained from any voting, but I wasn’t sure which part of this was disturbing. We’re missing something.

I haven't tried any radials, and tbh I'm not certain to where I would attach them given the j-pole design has a matching network in-built. I've got a 1:1 balun at the feedpoint and an inline choke at the radio. My 10m antenna of identical design is great, and this one is great too (I see ~1:1 at 14.250), it's just much higher in the band than I had planned and I strongly suspect it's simply ground reflection since the radiating element is way lower than the halfwave it ought to be.

The window line j-pole is a monoband vertical, a half wave radiating element and a quarter wave impedance matching section. On 20m the overall length of this thing is 14.4m.

On my current mast, the radiating element comes down to about 1m off the ground and then I have the matching section strung perpendicularly across the fence to keep it off the ground.

I hadn’t considered loading tbh, I’ll give it another go—just need to be in one place longer than 30 days haha

I’m captivated by the 2200m band but I balk at ever being able to use it because of what I perceive to be substantial technical challenges with respect to antennas, and then the low likelihood of actually making a QSO. If I ever have a fixed QTH this might change.

RingCentral had some really nice features; we used it for our business several years ago and I had considered using it as a virtual clearing house for my family to help keep our personal numbers private when signing up for things.

I had even ported a Google Voice number to RingCentral well before that process was streamlined.

I’m with you, and add to that only one update every ~72 hours is a long stretch between updates.

I reckon they can’t update users individually because as I understand it the email system was also affected (can’t recall where I saw this), additionally they possibly just don’t know the scale yet, and if they do know the scale, they are preparing their statements in advance.

What do I do with facebook

It’s step one of the PR playbook: assert that it’s not a big deal, and if it is a big deal then it’s not so bad, and if it is so bad then remember it’s a free service, and if you were paying then you probably need credit monitoring.

+C I’m sorry +C +C +C

Meanwhile, iPhone users: 6:30, 6:39, 6:48…

I like your perspective, and hope to offer a new facet.

I travel a lot for work, and as a result, we gave up a fixed QTH about four or five years ago. My life is /M or /P. I also noticed in retrospect that I had nearly stopped going to any kind of park or outdoor space; this intensified during the pandemic whilst living in a country which took the lockdowns quite seriously.

When I recognized that my spouse and children were not getting to enjoy the outdoors as much as they should, and I not as much as in my youth, I decided to make portable and mobile ops my radio life. Sure, it won’t always be that way, but I needed to start somewhere. Without a fixed QTH, this leaves portable and mobile ops. My shack is a pelican case and a larger military style backpack. No idea where the soldering iron I just picked up will go.

But I’m happy for it, my spouse seems supportive, and my kids get to touch grass (or sand, as I recently tried to activate White Sands Nat’l Park), and I get to play radio for a portion of that outing.

In short, you’re right, the ops I enjoy are the ones I’ve incorporated into my life, this necessarily includes my spouse and kids. For me, it’s the only way I get to be on air, though sometimes I am a little envious of having a fixed QTH radio shack.

If it’s sitting in the garage, it might just be worth the effort. I hit Namibia from 65’MSL in South Florida on my CB whip and truck and that was phone.

With the narrower bandwidth on CW, even if it’s 1/10 wave, I think you’ll be surprised.

Thank you! It seems to perform pretty well, though my most distant contacts have, quite unexpectedly, come from a mobile CB whip borrowed from my mom's garage, mounted on the top of our Sequoia, and tuned down using the IC-7300. Just yesterday I finally got a good DX contact on the OCF to Japan from DM72cu, just over 5500 miles–but I had to hike the equipment up to Benson Ridge. As for the trailer, that was our travel partner's. It splattered a ton of EMI. If you wind up getting one, expect to have to run gas on the fridge and keep the 12v system off.

It certainly will give you the flexibility to work multiple bands and find the good propagation, but it's an adventure to setup every time.

We recently wrapped up a cross-country road trip across the US where I operated /M a few times.

During the drive, I anticipated some EMI, and the “turn-off, turn-on” game to isolate sources of noise.

As we drove, the diesel igniters of the semi-trucks I passed were coming through 59, and the hum of the AC compressor would bump up the noise floor a little. What I expected—and completely forgot about—was an aftermarket USB charger splattering noise all over the 10m band (and probably others).

Once I unplugged that, I was able to make contacts.

We’re packing the truck for the pre-dawn drive to our scouted location!

Fascinating! I probably won’t be available on the 18th, but I will be trying to setup my 7-band OCF during the eclipse on the 8th and making some contacts as far as I can from near Radar Base, Texas.

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