fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

technically pv panels are also heat engines. this is why they need cooling

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

the steam part is in the rest of hydrological cycle

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

bindeez 2007 recall would be close. tldr childrens toy contained plastifier that turned out to metabolize to ghb, this in turn was put in there as an unauthorized cost cutting measure by manufacturing subcontractor. within 2 weeks of the first incident there was a global recall. note that nobody died and there are no expected long term medical consequences. new batches had added bitrex and undergo qc for this specific contaminant, and brand name was changed

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 13 hours ago

I suspect that we’ll see these “rockets” (missiles?) used for ground based air defenses before too long.

there's already a ground based launcher for APKWS and FZ275 is compatible with it too

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

No not really. APKWS or JDAM are retrofits of old weapons with new guidance package. Belgium has no large stockpile of old unguided weapons so they get to design the entire thing from ground up. The principle is similar, its a laser guided beam riding missile shot from a heli or a jet, but APKWS sensors are on leading edge of winglets and this new thing has sensor in nose like a tiny Stugna. overall drop-in APKWS replacement with 10k manufactured per month target

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 20 hours ago

just unroll the cardboard

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

you can distill it before use if you are so inclined, but it would take dry ice and somewhat specialized glassware (distillation of ammonia is more common and it would work just about the same way). there is food grade/cosmetics grade (99.99%) dme available. just in order to not deal with it i would use diethyl ether instead, which can be distilled with normal equipment

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

breaking news: fork found in kitchen

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

man if there was a common household chemical, like plastifier, that causes psychosis after couple months of use in small segment of population, you would absolutely hear no end of this [1]. but you see, now it's an app, oh we're just throwing up hands, can't do anything about it and it's but one of inconveniences that we all have to pay for Progress and Glorious Technocratic Future

[1] i'm thinking here of things like phthalates, bisphenol A, PFOA or paraquat, herbicide linked to increased risk of parkinsons and banned in some countries. their harmful effects need a lot of time to show up and are nowhere as dramatic

 

I'm picking up an idea left by Dick KK4OBI, that you can lower impedance of dipole by arbitrary ratio if said dipole is zigzagged or otherwise uniformly contorted in some meandering shape. Side effect is that dipole becomes shorter and needs more wire. While there's data about impedance for fundamental, there's nothing about harmonics which is something that OCFD might be expected to handle well, so guessing that the really important part is aspect ratio of meander, i've made a couple of VHF-scale models with different meander aspect ratios (and many more much smaller sections), and some of data i've been able to collect roughly matches. The thing I'm trying to figure is what aspect ratio should be to cover multiple bands while using OCFD, say 40-20-15m bands, and whether impedances at different frequencies fall at the same rate. Eventually, when i figure this out, i'll try to make a full size 40m fundamental antenna, as I think that i've figured it out in mechanical terms

However during testing it turned out that I have severe common mode current problems, as two 10mm dia split ferrite beads were evidently not enough, so what little i've been able to collect is mostly useless. When I packed up everything I've found 4 Laird 28B beads that should together give 1100 ohms of impedance or so at 100MHz which also happens to be close to lowest frequency in my setup. Is this enough? Feedline is currently about as long as shorter arm of straight dipole at 22,5:77,5 split ratio, should I change it?

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