I got the Baofeng fever a bit ago and I made a radio "Go Box"
I designed and 3d printed the center console. it has a battery and an onboard trickle charger and the USBs will charge the radios

i want to mess around with Meshtastic! and also - Reticulum

Did you get a HAM license to broadcast, or are you just listening?

Maybe autistic people should be leaders then.

I got a GMRS license, I know they're technically still not legal, I never transmit off GMRS frequencies.

Oof. Sorry, didn't mean to call you out on your "illegal" rig. Looks nice though. My set up is just a couple of midland radios. I give one to my wife when she's chatty and tries to hold a convo with me from her office upstairs.

Back when I spent the night at a Swedish airport I spent most of the morning shooting the shit with a lady coming back home from some tropical place. She'd previously worked in a government position, and after clearing up some gender confusion, she told me that before 1990 the final digits in our personal identity numbers used to correspond to where you were born as well as your gender. Nowadays it's just your gender.

Our "person numbers" are essentially your date of birth combined with 4 digits, YYYYMMDD-XXXX.

Thus if you've a PID looking like 19890221-0271, you can infer that the person is a man born in Stockholm on the 21st of February 1989. This isn't a valid PID however, as it doesn't pass the Luhn algorithm.

Minor segue; trans people can and do get their PID changed to reflect them being man/woman rather than the gender assigned at birth. Non-binary people are unfortunately not represented.

Back in 1990 they changed the "place of birth" bits of the PID and is now assigned randomly. Up until then there were also a range of digits assigned if you were born outside of Sweden and had emigrated. Perhaps in the future they'll do away with the gendering and just have the numbers assigned randomly.

Or they might not.

A lot of the old ICOM and Yaesu radios were easy to open up for full range function. My multiband ICOM HT only required desoldering one resistor. After that could broadcast on 2M and 440, GRMS, police/fire/emergency bands, and even the comm system radios my employer used. Haven't kept up, but today's radios are probably just as easy to unlock.

I once recorded the voiceover for one of those when I was a preteen .. my mom worked at a radio station. Back when it was called the emergency broadcast system. They used it for a couple years after, I would cringe when it came on because I hated hearing my voice...

:3c

These seem like some awfully specific examples....

Unfortunately they're just like regular people, so you have good autistic people but also absolute bastards with autism.

McGuyver found.

Trains!!!!

I sent that to my girlfriend and she asked me why i wrote that down

RTL-SDR is a whole rabbit hole of its own. I love having a thumb sized scanner that has the capabilities of scanners that cost hundreds more. Wild stuff

Is being autistic just not being an asshole now.

Yah, been messing with meshtastic and have built [counts on figurers how many nodes ive built] and Reticulum is new and is on the to do list. [Checks increasingly long list of stuff to do]...

nah, the 14 inch shoelace i'm making fun of the ATF (a friend of mine specifically). here is the decision (doesn't name him) reversing his finding.

the funniest part is, the original decision didn't quite find that a 14 inch shoelace was an automatic firearm, it just described how a 14 inch shoelace could modify a regular semiautomatic firearm into an automatic firearm. And of course bureaucratic government language meant that that 14 inch length of bootlace with a loop in the end was by definition an automatic firearm.

dude and i haven't talked in over a decade, we drifted apart over politics (he's far right. i am decidedly not) which is a shame. he is one of the funniest people i've known, but, uh. wish he could see the damage he's done and doing.

also, you're not going to believe me. i know it looks wrong too. that's why i call it Angusing now

I like trains. There should be more rail and more trains.

Roughly a description of me lol

I have every NES game. All of them.

Agreed. I can't wait for the super line theyre supposed to be building where I live!

Oh fuck then I think we both might be autistic.

I really need to get tested…

I would love to know of these clandestine radio stations

Oooo this is pretty

Pirate Shortwave Radio

This is very cool, are know of any sublemmings for this?

Great. I think I could raid the local equivalent of the Japanese Hard-Off thrift stores for those radios.

i see a few amateur radio communities but that’s it.

Whaaaat are you serious? :O

The only things the image is wrong about is being a railway buff and operating a radio station, although I've been looking into setting up a meshtastic network for my group of friends.

So maybe I'm not autistic as I do not fit the exact description? I do collect loads of stuff I don't use, can't get rid of anything, go crazy on perfect cable management, am more interested in collecting tools and make a perfect work station than actually use it, failed school even though I'm not lacking intelligence, I got diagnosed 10 years ago, I struggle with social situations, I don't get people their sarcasm and people don't get mine, I'm a perfectionist, I remember useless facts about everything but I forget anything useful, I dislike the taste of mushrooms because of it's structure, I edited this text 4 6 times already because I came up with more stuff after I was finished and can't stand it being incomplete, I'm going to think about what else I missed for the rest of the day so I can't do anything else anymore but I will be too tired to come back and change the text even more, ....

So I don't know. Can't say for certain.

Thank you.

Illegal tools you say?