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How's the magpul RLS?
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What a fag
That was a quick one
Poor soul.
Do those foldable radio antennas you see on PCs work at all while folded, or do they have to whip out the big black antenna every time they want to use it?
They work while folded
@Red Korvo for future reference they're called whip antennas
It’s generally not the best to transmit while folded
ehh
if you go full retard and bundle it up to be super small and somehow not break it then yeah you're gonna get stupid small broadcast range
iirc whip antennas like that are more so meant to talk to aircraft when you have LOS anyhow
could be wrong about that
Whip can refer to other types of antennas such as a long, flexible vehicle mounted antenna
@Red Korvo did you mean this: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tacticalgeartrade.com%2Fmedia%2Fcatalog%2Fproduct%2Fcache%2F1%2Fimage%2F800x%2Fac18e0e97509bbc39c861d26f1c1ff5e%2Ft%2Fr%2Ftri-harris-folding-antenna-for-prc-148-152-radiombitrdevgru3m-peltorthales.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tacticalgeartrade.com%2Ftri-harris-folding-antenna-for-prc-148-152-radio.html&docid=qp4YD5QKXpp5AM&tbnid=IJGIPPAjuFnh1M%3A&vet=1&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim
makes sense, though I think it's pretty obvious that we're discussing antenna used on portable radios like 148s and such
Right, whips, specifically those tape measure style ones you linked.
@Red Korvo what're you even trying to do with a radio that requires a whip antenna
I've got whips on my fengs to talk to my frens
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cause like if you simply want to boost the range on your baofeng a whip isn't entirely necessary, cause then there's whole discussions about UHF vs VFH and what environment you're transmitting in and a lot of other nerd shit that goes into it
Pretty much anything you do with a handheld is going to be LOS unless you get a repeater involved. Or possibly HF at night.
Basically yeah. Radio seems a little dead in jacksonville, especially APRS, and I'd love to get reliable aprs running.
Ham is dead for the most part
All the aprs stations are far from me.
Then what's replaced it?
zoomers with fengs
The internet
shrug
@All UCP Everything
Long term goal is to get man portable Morse transceiver stations between two teams for long distance comms
I’m still practicing my Morse
neat
I’m going to take AE next month
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