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[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NIKON D90

AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-200mm ƒ3.5-5.6G IF-ED [II]

ISO 360, 27 mm, 0.5 ev, ƒ3.5, 1/15 s

[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the kind words! It’s a very special place to me with great memories 😁

[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely great fun! Plus nowadays that everything is geo/date tagged, and at minimum it’s a fun little catalog of my life.

[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might be faster than you think. I know a lot of people who used to look at/share tweets without an account.

Since the X rebrand, it works about 30% of the time for me.

Twitter had a lot of users, but also a whole lot of people who used the platform passively without signing up (and were either uninterested in doing so or incapable).

[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks! These are most of the good ones! I’m just a mediocre amateur, so have maybe a 1:10,000 success rate 😜

I have a couple more from Asia I’m wanting to get to as I have time.

[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I just wanted to add that I’m 99% sure I used a polarizing filter for this shot.

[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hey! Thanks!

This was shot through a window into a shop display at night. It was just kind of a neat texture they had used for the backdrop behind some display items. The area in question is probably a couple feet across. I think the raw file is still floating around somewhere, and I’ll follow-up with the focal length if I can find it.

I processed the image with DxO to remove lens distortion & straighten everything.

[–] xhci@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I got lucky with this one. It was one my first dSLR pictures.

 
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I’ve asked this before, but had another twist on it.

I have a couple 5W UHF HTs, and they sometimes get used in a dual radio chest pack. Am I running any risk of damaging them by transmitting so close?

It’s pretty common for first responders to run a setup like this, so I’m thinking it’s probably okay?

 

Hello all!

I’m trying to get my foot in the door with HF digital and looking for antenna suggestions using FT8/JS8Call with a Xiegu G90.

I have ~60 ft if space in the backyard to work with & live on the second story looking down into the yard (~20ft up).

I’d ideally like something portable I can pack up and take around with me camping. I’m leaning towards a random length wire right now, but would love to hear what you come up with!

Thanks in advance!

 

I noticed a difference between my lithium Yaesu/Wouxun HTs battery packs and some Motorola part 90 units.

It looks like there are 3 contacts on the back of the ham radio packs (I think 1 is for sensing temperature?) and 4 on the Motorola packs. The Motorola packs are "smart" IMPRES batteries that go through a "conditioning" cycle periodically.

I feel pretty confident that the IMPRES packs are doing cell balancing, but I'm wondering if ham lithium batteries do the same. I'm pretty religious about keeping my Li-poly packs balanced, so am just curious how these are working.

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