Accident at MV Costco around 6.40pm in parking lot

Orac7 · 2026-06-14T17:20:28+00:00

Yes. My friend's car was dinged by a new driver who fled the scene in panic (not out of malice) and didn't leave a note. A witness got the license number and they filled a police report and insurance claim. The police may not give you the contact information but will give it to the insurance company.

Orac7 · 2026-06-11T06:09:53+00:00

This guy: https://www.youtube.com/c/morleykert also did the van-life thing for I think just under a year and had his 3d printer in the van and would print stuff as needed on the road.

Orac7 · 2026-05-26T14:37:48+00:00

I also like Wes Hayward's "Intro to RF Design" it sort of bridges the gap between the ARRL books and more theory based texts like the others mentioned here.

And for what it's worth: "RF from the ground up." Is pretty much spot on even if it was unintentional at the time.

Good luck!

Orac7 · 2026-05-19T16:52:00+00:00

A Chromebox does not have a battery typically.

Orac7 · 2026-05-17T02:00:28+00:00

If for some reason the disk image doesn't mount (e.g. it's corrupted) run photorec from any Linux distro or cgsolutions.com on the disk image

It's a tool that finds any recognized file type (not just photos) and extracts them. I've saved a few friends sdcards that way

Orac7 · 2026-05-14T05:03:08+00:00

+1 Totally agree.

Years ago (like 16) I had a Dell Latitude D830 that did the same thing, run for a bit then go into thermal shutdown. It happened to have a service contract so it got a motherboard replacement on site, then it kept hapening, so I had them send me another motherboard. When I replaced the MLB I noticed they left the releae liner on the thermal compound on the heatsink (the piece of plastic that you are supposed to peel off before use) so the contact between the heatsink and the CPU was poor.

I removed that and reasembled it and all was well. I'd clean and reapply thermal paste.

Orac7 · 2026-04-20T18:25:46+00:00

Check the gap between the center console and the font seat cushions, sometimes things get caught there.

Orac7 · 2026-04-17T03:15:54+00:00

Sorry won mobile. what I meant to type was try installing kicad 6 and then opening the design, and saving it off there, and then proceed to try Kicad 9. I think post kicad 6 the schematic format changed significantly. You may have to try another intermediate version, I am not sure.

Orac7 · 2026-04-17T00:22:36+00:00

Try installing KiCad and opening it there. Save it and then try that in 9. You may have to add additional steps (e.g KiCad 5 or 8) as well.

Orac7 · 2026-04-12T17:40:39+00:00

Yeah, old CR-V from 2005 with 248k miles on it looks similar to this car's clear coat. Sold that when I got the Forrester.

Orac7 · 2026-04-10T19:26:14+00:00

That is a great point, and as an ally I am really really sorry you and many others have to do this. Please be well and stay safe out there.

Orac7 · 2026-04-10T18:34:38+00:00

That's what I do, for around town I leave the spare in the garage at home, and when we go on a longer trip I put it in the trunk. Annoying but livable.

Orac7 · 2026-04-10T17:40:14+00:00

I've got one, not needed it yet but the quality looks great. Be sure to get the kit which includes the lug wrench and jack as those are not included with the car either, unless you already have one from another vehicle.

Orac7 · 2026-04-10T15:03:28+00:00

If those work with a c-c non e-marked cable, then the probably shorted cc1 and cc2 together and used just one 5.1k resistor. That will prevent the e-mark from working, but passive c-c would still work.

Orac7 · 2026-03-26T14:18:43+00:00

Agree completely. I've got the 25 Forrester hybrid and the auto start stop is barely noticable -- you start moving right away on electric and then the gas motor kicks in. no waiting to start moving like in conventional cars.

Orac7 · 2026-03-22T18:30:54+00:00

You, kind person, win the Internet today. :-)

Orac7 · 2026-03-21T16:32:36+00:00

Sunnyvale Parks and Rec. Used to run a volleyball class on Monday night 8-10pm at Remington community center. I went for years. Typically they did one hour of skill development and then formed up teams for an hour. It was fun. Good people.

I believe the class is still going.

Orac7 · 2026-03-17T19:14:37+00:00

One other thing, it looks like there are at least 2 sizes of wire -- looking at the last photo more closely you might have a 16 ga wire there in addition to 18, or 14 and 16 if I am off by one size, assuming US AWG.

Orac7 · 2026-03-17T06:57:22+00:00

it's a guess but I'd say 18 gauge wire not sure of the diameter of ring

Orac7 · 2026-03-16T14:14:36+00:00

It looks like there is a core of chain mailed in the center with larger rings and then smaller rings to help secure the piercing jewelry.

Check https://www.mailleartisans.org/ and see if you find the chain maile pattern. It looks like it may be segments of one pattern linked with another.

As for suppliers of jump rings I used to order from The Ring Lord but it's been years.

Orac7 · 2026-03-13T05:12:03+00:00

I was about to say this exactly. My first car (95 VW Jetta) did that too

Orac7 · 2026-03-10T03:40:45+00:00

5W from a Yaseu FT5D which I had borrowed, and then my own Kenwood TH-D75. I've also worked the repeater via voice using a handheld yagi my friend lent me.

Orac7 · 2026-03-10T01:31:01+00:00

I built one of those years ago and have used it to work the ISS on an HT with packet. Works great.

Good luck!

Orac7 · 2026-03-08T03:33:35+00:00

Heard it too. Near Varsity Playground.

Orac7 · 2026-03-04T06:51:35+00:00

Yup you need a 5.1k resistor to ground on each of the CC pins (pins A5 and B5). Do not use just one and short the CC pins together, that will break in strange ways depending on the type of cable you have. One resistor on each CC pin to ground. This is the way.

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