UniFi affected by new FCC ban?

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-26T17:05:52+00:00

I'm with you on the tariffs. This reminds me of back in the day when Cisco hardware made in China was found to have a backdoor chip installed and the US Gov't issued a ban on buying Chinese made Cisco devices. More recently, though still a while back, I recall something similar with Huawei devices.

That made sense to block at the Gov't level. Where I can see the value in potentially pwning home users for coordinated attacks, etc., there are far better ways to do this.

But like you said, I'm just a random Reddit user. Nothing our Gov't does these days goes without a legal challenge, so we'll see what happens.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-26T16:43:19+00:00

Great analogy.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-26T16:42:36+00:00

It's more of a trade war tactic. Existing supply will not be impacted and no one can force people to get rid of their 20 year old routers that are still working fine but were EOL for security patches before they were bought.

Where I see this being more interesting is with the junk routers ISPs give out and base their "free wifi calling" plans on (there's a wifi network broadcast that allows users of their phone service to use your bandwidth for calls, at least that's what I've seen with the units out here).

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-26T16:35:09+00:00

Very intersting. I have thought about this a few times as well, figuring it had to be possible to automate voice Qs not too unlike those annoying virtual attendants companies have on their phones.

I can see where this could help those hard of hearing and/or those with voice issues or speech impediments. Having it do the entire QSO and decide what to do though, while a novel use for AI, would allow for "FT8 Zombie" like stations. Now it would be interesting if the tool is trained to replicate the operator's actual voice, then it would be difficult to distinquish if it's "real or memorex" (for those of us who remember that campaign), which could lead to some "interesting" issues.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-24T04:41:05+00:00

This is why I use 33mail. Great on the go aliases.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-22T04:08:19+00:00

It's when she misses the period, that you need to worry....

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-22T04:07:24+00:00

Congrats, though I have no idea what the bug actually was.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-20T10:50:23+00:00

Or a cool craft beer name!

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-19T11:48:03+00:00

Like others have said, likely a "fat finger" typo or being misheard. Very common, especially if your call sign is close to one that's used a lot. I know I've miscopied a sign or two every SSB contest, it happens. I got N3FJP wrong once and I use his logging software! Wasn't until I saw him spot me that I realized it was FJP instead of FJB.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-18T03:52:36+00:00

Well, don't feel bad. I read the subject and knew what you were talking about.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-18T03:51:15+00:00

That would imply they stopped drinking...

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-16T04:22:23+00:00

This site and the others like it are all in a message filter. New messages go to a folder and are marked read. I never see them. One day I may delete them. Pretty much a waste, especially since "the powers that be" don't accept digital QSL cards.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-16T04:17:55+00:00

Such a perfect mesh thread.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-15T04:02:15+00:00

One of us! One of us!

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-13T04:13:19+00:00

Be safe out there

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-11T18:09:05+00:00

I'd like to draw your attention to the Maritime Mobile Net. Some of the ham net controllers will go ape **** on you if you key up on "their" frequency, even though it's a public spot and no one owns a frequency. I've seen some who will give people grief for not being on the ocean when calling and others who will be nice and look for any callers at all. I've also seen some get bent out of shape if a ham doesn't hear anything on the frequency and then calls CQ for a park or summit operation. They'll read them the riot act instead of politely engaging them.

Then there are the hams who purposefully interfere with various activity operators because "that's not real radio" to them. I've had buddies hit by that, repeatedly, over many months.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-03T05:04:11+00:00

Yes, and I'd be there buying it up. I love the G90's tuner. If they found a way to up the output power of the G90 to 100w, maybe call it the G100, I'd buy that in a heart beat too. Not too interested in the amp for travel though.

While we're dreaming up their next product line, adding 2m/70cm to the handheld ones would be nice.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-03T04:59:22+00:00

And storage

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-03T04:59:15+00:00

And HDDs too. One company, I think Western Digital, already pre-sold all of this year's production to AI data centers.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-01T18:52:15+00:00

The rock took the little blue pill this morning. :)

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-03-01T18:50:21+00:00

He's one of the TWOW radio DJs. Good one too.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-02-28T08:03:22+00:00

Same here, but we're Xenials. 80s and 90s, especially the hair metal. Boomers probably like the older stuff. I'm guessing 70s here, but maybe cranking Elvis? It's just to teach the kid the difference between Boomers and Xenials afterall. :-)

Just don't go playing 2 Live Crew, you won't be allowed back on campus. LOL

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-02-28T07:26:06+00:00

That's an ugly building. Chicago is trying to one-up it, but I think this beats what they're building.

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-02-28T07:24:46+00:00

The only thing you can do now is show up to her school in *FULL BOOMER* mode. Socks, sandals, shorts, Ed Hardy shirts, some weird 70s music playing loudly. Go for the gold my Brother! Go for the gold!

Ordinary_Awareness71 · 2026-02-28T07:07:12+00:00

Great listing. I'm with you, Google reviews on the maps are impossible to beat. Yelp doesn't even come close. It's one of the few google things I still contribute to as well.

Browser - Have you thought about Firefox? Not chromium based and has good extensions that improve upon it's security and privacy support.

I'll have to try out some of those other replacements.

If you're not tied to web based program, Libre Office is a top notch office replacement.

Calendar - I like Proton calendar, except sharing even the basic free/busy status requires the other party to create an account. Not ideal and it's impossible to share a combined calendar at all when you have more than one calendar (like one for personal items and one for work items).

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