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What is amateur radio?

To disambiguate the lack of understanding of other contributors ... Q. What is Ham Radio? A. Ham Radio is a technical p...
11 comments posted 6yrs
posted by headstone255
11 comments posted 6yrs posted by headstone255

German colloquialism

This from a review site ' Ich saß wie nee kuh wenn es donnert,' Literal translation is ' I sat like no cow when it thund...
13 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tpmccann
13 comments posted 6yrs posted by tpmccann

Cooker hood breeze

In our kitchen we have a perfectly ordinary cooker hood vented outside. Trouble is, there is quite a draught from it. I...
23 comments posted 6yrs
posted by magpieinkcap
23 comments posted 6yrs posted by magpieinkcap

Mysterious plug things

Can anyone tell me what these are called? They're a sort of slightly odd distant cousin of the banana plug. https://ibb...
22 comments posted 6yrs
posted by mail
22 comments posted 6yrs posted by mail

Adaptors

So the internet radio has arrived! How do I connect? Router sockets are cat 6 and radio input is usb. Whilst google fin...
28 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tim
28 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim

Northern Ireland MOT Clusterfuck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51279166 https://is.gd/fwyYTZ How come all garages were using the same m...
28 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jethro_uk
28 comments posted 6yrs posted by jethro_uk

Electronics D-I-Y

Perhaps a caveat is needed here, and that is, if you have old as-new stocks of wire-ended components, (with the possibl...
10 comments posted 6yrs
posted by headstone255
10 comments posted 6yrs posted by headstone255

Gridwatch certificate expired

Looks like a problem. Firefox on Windows 10 reports: Web sites prove their identity via certificates, which are valid f...
14 comments posted 6yrs
posted by magpieinkcap
14 comments posted 6yrs posted by magpieinkcap

Why are torx screws so expensive?

Pack of PZ2 screws, £10. Pack of identical screws, but with a torx head, £50. WTF?
22 comments posted 6yrs
posted by CFKinsey
22 comments posted 6yrs posted by CFKinsey

Using a 16A Schuko socket

So, I have an EV (Leaf) which would benefit from the ability to charge using more than a 13Amp socket can supply. The s...
42 comments posted 6yrs
posted by not
42 comments posted 6yrs posted by not

Double glazing beading on the outside?!?

Why do some glaziers fit the beading on the outside of windows? Surely, common sense tells us to put the part you can ea...
25 comments posted 6yrs
posted by CFKinsey
25 comments posted 6yrs posted by CFKinsey

Door kick plates

Any views on this one? It seems the main choices are aluminium, stainless steel and brass. As far as I can see, alumini...
2 comments posted 6yrs
posted by newsgroups
2 comments posted 6yrs posted by newsgroups

uk.radio.amateur?

It seems as though a number of the (slightly?) more respectable denizens of ura have decamped here in response to the a...
54 comments posted 6yrs
posted by headstone255
54 comments posted 6yrs posted by headstone255

Burglar alarm problem

We have a wired house alarm that was already in place when we bought the house some 15 years ago. It has several moveme...
33 comments posted 6yrs
posted by no
33 comments posted 6yrs posted by no