You should check out Ham Radio Crash Cpurse on YouTube. Lots of great info there.

I’ve been considering a switch since my instance has a lot of issues with overloading. I like that yours doesn’t censor words. Does lemm.ee have issues with too many people joining and overloading the server?

Damn, it looks like it still got you.

Let’s see if that gets filtered.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-little-*removed*-house-floor-meltdown-1234775911/

Edit: looks like the curse filter Broke that link. Just google “mtg called Biebert a little” and you’ll find it.

Most activity, I’ve seen here: !amateurradio@lemmy.ko4abp.com but there’s a lemmy bug that’s not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.

These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016123

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015573

They are fine for starting out with, but you’ll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.

Ham radio! It’s relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.

I’ll begrudgingly vote for Biden again. I’d prefer someone further left, but I desperately want to prevent the Rs from winning.

I was on the fence about it until the Spez AMA. Then, I decided I’d be leaving on the 30th.

Then, I had a user call me “fucking stupid” for supporting a sub shutting down, and that was the final straw for me. I had seen how friendly people on Lemmy are and this showed me how toxic Reddit is by comparison. So I immediately nuked all my comments & posts and deleted my account. This was around two weeks ago and I’ve been much happier here.

This is precisely my experience. I am a recovering big L Libertarian (in the USA sense). Now I’d say I’m liberal, slowly moving more left.