I bought a pretty basic safety razor from maggard about 10 years ago and still love it. The biggest thing to learn and invest in is what blades and lather you like. I started off buying a blade sampler pack from them and settled on astra blades. i'll change up my lather/soap sometimes. Also a nice brush is good to have.
MFJ is ceasing its on-site production
Production line stops on May 17th. This also means its other brands will be gone soon too:
- Ameritron
- Hy-Gain
- Cushcraft
- Mirage
- Vectronics
- MDS-HAM
Yea the language setting makes absolutely no sense to me. As for the messaging between mastadon and here: doesn't work for me either. Maybe lemmy doesn't correctly parse DMs from other services? It's good at nesting messages but DMs may be something it doesn't quite get yet. Or maybe it's straight broken š
So comments like https://lemmy.world/comment/9174951 seem to be federated and showing up. It might be slow to federate today as well. But yea, let's see how the next few days go after this update.
Can you throw an example at me? I see your comments on other instances.
I can try the newest update soon, but it only updates how pictrs (the photo hosting service we use) stores photos in the database. If we're having issues now, my first thought would be backed up federation or high usage.
Can you give me an example?
As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as āhams,ā is gearing up for an exciting project with the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) group. Our goal is clear and ambitious: to use the Moonās shadow as...
As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as āhams,ā is gearing up for an exciting project
Could it be the language setting? https://lemmy.world/post/1617579
I was trying to see if some setting may prevent it but didnāt see anything. Also spent some time looking at GitHub issues as well but nothing caught my eye. Not sure where to go about testing this.
Maybe a cache thing? Iām seeing 2 comments on your post and both comments here. 
Sorry to fill your post with test comments and upvotes, but I THINK federation seems to be working better? Testing from this post here: https://lemmy.world/post/13954037?scrollToComments=true
Test comment from my main account on lemmy.radio to test outgoing federation.
I plan on taking tonight and this weekend to update us to 0.19.3. I just upgraded us to 0.19.1 which fixes a bug with federating with newer instances. Hope this helps. The upcoming updates may take the site down for a few hours as it has major database and image hosting changes.
Let me know if it seems better after the 0.19.1 update.
~w0odl
AFAIK we're on the same database version even though the backend is behind.
Since I started running this instance, I feel like this has always been an issue. I can see federation happening in the logs, and I've only "banned" a few servers. We are still a small version behind, so maybe that is the issue? But I don't believe it is. There was another surge lately in lemmy users and posts, and in the past, that always seemed to kick off issues like this. Lemmy is also still very beta-ish.
I'll keep watching the logs and hopefully this week, I'll get us on the newest version. The last few have been very time consuming to update.
~ Ben
I'd also suggest trying a crypto currency community for help. This is amateur radio and hiking ;)
Iāll have to look into that. Iām not sure lemmy offers that. But I can always keep this community up and just make it read only so that your post is always visible. This was actually the first community I made on this server just to test that creation worked!
Devastating Hawaii Wildfires Prompt Response from Amateur Radio Emergency Service
Digital modes are all the rage these days in amateur radio ā hams are using protocols like WSPR to check propagation patterns, FT8 to get quick contacts on many bands with relatively low poweā¦
Email notifications, password resets, and applications were broken by the update. Fixed it this evening š
I plan on activating all 4 days. Iāll look to the PNW!
Amateur Radio: From a Hobby to a Career Author: Connie Kelly Before there was an Internet, before there were Cellphones, before there was Zoom or WebEx or...
Before there was an Internet, before there were Cellphones, before there was Zoom or WebEx or Skype or anyone of a number of Voice over the Internet (VOIP); there was Ham Radio. The promise of talking to people not just in our own community but all over the world made the idea of Ham Radio exciting.
Amateur Radio Fun in the Colorado Mountains - August 4 through 7, 2023 #sota
This event is normally held the first full weekend in August. Again this year, we will add two bonus days to the Colorado 14er Event. The main two days remain Saturday and Sunday (5-6 August), while the bonus days are Friday 4th August 2023 and Monday 7th August 2023, for those SOTA enthusiasts that need more than two days of SOTA fun!
What's in your SOTA Pack?
I have a few different variations depending one what mode or antenna I want to try.
Usually though:
- IC-705
- Endfedz 10/20/40 Trail Friendly
- paddle or mic
- 20' collapsible mast
- log book (rite in the rain)
- in-ear headphones
Of course a water dish and treats if my dog, Nora, is traveling with me.
I'll keep all of that in a Maxpedition 12-Inch X 5-Inch Bottle Holder
Backpack if I'm able to really minimize is the Nathan Trail 12-liter
There's a few extras in the pic that I may bring, like a coffee thermos for short hikes on cold days, YAKTRAX spikes in case it's icey, and a headlamp.
What do you SOTA with?
JULY 28, 2023: With near-unanimous bipartisan support, a bill that would help ensure AM radio remains in vehic...
With near-unanimous bipartisan support, a bill that would help ensure AM radio remains in vehicle dashboards is moving quickly in Congress.
The TETRA standard is used in radios worldwide. Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in the underlying cryptography and its implementation, including issues that allow for the decryption of traffic.
Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH - July 22
The MRHS in cooperation with our good friends at the Cipher History Museum will send a coded message in 5-letter groups via the facilities of coast stations KPH on Saturday July 22, 2023 Pacific time. The message will be encrypted using the famous Enigma code machine and is an authentic message sent by a U-boat in the North Atlantic in 1942.
Please please please encourage new operators
Youāve probably all heard this at one time or another. A newly-licensed radio amateur gets on the local repeater and then either gets ignored completely or criticized for using a Baofeng or committing some minor operating error. Can you think of a worse experience for a new ham? Iād bet that i...
by Thomas (DM1TBE) If you followed my activation reports, you may (or may not) remember that I have just started pursuing POTA this year with the program gaining popularity in Europe and hence resuā¦
WiFi routers can see people through walls
With the help of AI, the researchers were able to detect the movement of human bodies in a room using Wi-Fi routers -- even through walls.
