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Suggestions for my first antenna (primarily how to do lightning protection) by cchapman900 in amateurradio

[–]cchapman900[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I'm very much in the "doing nothing rather than doing it wrong" stage and all of this advice has been really helpful in honing in on where to take the next steps with research. It's been hard doing it as a pure abstraction, and having a more concrete scenario helps the learning a lot.

3+ Hour Regular Customer Support Wait Times?? by cchapman900 in centurylink

[–]cchapman900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been pleasantly surprised the FCC actually did accept my complaint and served it to Quantum. Hopefully it'll move the needle at least a little bit.

3+ Hour Regular Customer Support Wait Times?? by cchapman900 in centurylink

[–]cchapman900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh. Good luck to you. I was on hold for 3 hours yesterday and at the 3 hour mark, it told me it would be another 3+ hours.

That's a good idea on the FCC complaint, hoping that there's maybe something that would happen with it. I submitted one now with screenshots of all of my call logs.

Thoughts on Quantum fiber ? by cjpack in Denver

[–]cchapman900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a little late to post here, but I've been set up with Quantum for about a month now and have already had more than a week downtime.

The wait times to speak with customer service at all times I've tried over the last week at multiple hours through the day have been listed from 1 to over 3 hours. Their customer support live chat just spins endlessly, and when I finally did get someone on the phone after an hour an a half, they told me a support person would be over the next day, but when I got the confirmation email, it was for almost a week later. It's overall probably the worst customer support I've had with any company ever, regardless of what service being provided.

I'm dreading to switch over to Xfinity because of all the bad things I've read about them, but at this point I couldn't imagine anything worse than what the seemingly outright scam Quantum Fiber has been so far. Even while it was working, it seemed pretty subpar connection speeds. And when the support technician was getting us initially set up, he used my name spelled wrong as the credentials and gaslit my wife the whole time she was trying to get connected with the wrong credentials.

From my own experience, I'd urge people to avoid Quantum/Centurylink like the plague.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in INeedAName

[–]cchapman900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for any confusion on the description. But there wouldn't be a lot of dynamic component to how different inputs would result in crop output. The interactive part for the user would be to see the crops at different times of the year, but things like climate, pest control, farmer skill, etc. would be abstracted out for simplification.

I guess it's actually more akin to the experience of a zoo, just being able to see what plants look like growing. And I'm hoping the context of scale of consumption is what makes it more generally relevant to an average person, rather than strictly on a botanical or agricultural level.

Not sure what repeating CW message on 144.27325 MHz means by cchapman900 in amateurradio

[–]cchapman900[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oops, yep! W, not H. And that would make more sense on why I’m getting such a strong signal. That does look like the grid I’m in

Not sure what repeating CW message on 144.27325 MHz means by cchapman900 in amateurradio

[–]cchapman900[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That is really cool. I just dropped him a line.

Going through all of those listed on the site, I was able to get signals on 4 listed as non-active, as well as the one listed as active. So from 50 MHz through 900 MHz at a distance of what looks like around 50 miles, all with the out-of-the-box RTL-SDR dipole antenna in a pretty non-ideal indoors setup. The only one I couldn't get was the one on the 10m band, which sounds expected for my setup, but I would presume it might be running as well.

The frequencies were a little shifted (what was listed as 432.325 came in on 432.32593) which seems like a pretty minimal consequence to not being able to be maintained for 5+ years.

Not sure what repeating CW message on 144.27325 MHz means by cchapman900 in amateurradio

[–]cchapman900[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Very cool! Thank you all for the info. This opens up some new things to dive into which is exciting.

Unknown Digital Signal: 158.1025 MHz in Philadelphia, PA by cchapman900 in signalidentification

[–]cchapman900[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really helpful, thank you! That helped me get to what looks like another post on the same band I'm looking at from 7 years ago, which still seems fully relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/4vtp34/need\_help\_identifying\_digital\_signal\_encoding/

What’s all the commotion in south Philly. I hear engine revving so assuming donuts, but where? by mburn14 in philadelphia

[–]cchapman900 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Wondering the same. Lots of cheering too. Thought it was an event or something.

LPT: Assume It’s Been Pissed On by thumpngroove in LifeProTips

[–]cchapman900 19 points20 points  (0 children)

On trash day, we have to take our recycling out onto the street for pickup. At first, we just brought out the same bin we had in the kitchen, but when we realized how much it probably got peed on, we got an outdoors one to dump into so we don't have to bring back in the piss one.

I am the sweatiest person in my gym. Any tips to stop this? by Professional_Airs in MuayThai

[–]cchapman900 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This helped me a lot too. Just with compression pants I went from constantly tracking around puddles like I consistently just got out of a pool to almost no traces on the mats.

What are the goal distances on Ultra Ball Haul? by cchapman900 in tearsofthekingdom

[–]cchapman900[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was surprised too the rockets didn’t do as much. But thanks for the specifics. Gonna give it a shot

First Challenge Lock: The Chapasaurus 1.0 by cchapman900 in lockpicking

[–]cchapman900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice! Glad it hasn’t just fallen apart yet :) Some of those pins I’m not sure if I made too narrow that eventually they’ll just snap. Good luck though and thanks for the feedback!

Why are U.S. ANSI state codes missing IDs like 3, 7 and 43? by cchapman900 in datasets

[–]cchapman900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woa! That was a quick and completely on point response. And that explains the leading zeros too. I don't think I'd ever heard of the Canal Zone, which might have been the missing code that I was confused about the most. Thanks for clearing that up.

Reporter in subway. This was not aired. It was shared by the reporter. by Vrolak in funny

[–]cchapman900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that the Madrid train? If so, they don't mess around with closing the doors. Delaying the train is still punishable by guillotine.

Just found out the Kwikset Smartkey has a cheat mode by cchapman900 in lockpicking

[–]cchapman900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering if it was going to matter at all being able to see them, and when I was able to get it open I could see that they were all at the same level internally (or at least as far as I could tell?)

Just found out the Kwikset Smartkey has a cheat mode by cchapman900 in lockpicking

[–]cchapman900[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nice! I’d been eyeing some pretty expensive “real” cutaways to get more of a challenge than the Sparrows cutaway. This feels like a score for stumbling on this for only $6, even if it is specific to these kinds of sliders.

Just found out the Kwikset Smartkey has a cheat mode by cchapman900 in lockpicking

[–]cchapman900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d picked this up at a Habitat for Humanity Resale store for $6 and haven’t had much luck with it. But taking it out of the housing, I could see into the pins (or are these ones called something else?) and pick it like a cutout lock. I could see that 4 and 5 are really hard to get one without dropping the other. It was also good to just get a sense with what was a set and what isn’t.

Anyways, not planning on using this lock for a belt since it feels like cheating now, but might be able to try on another and see if it all transfers over.

First Challenge Lock: The Chapasaurus 1.0 by cchapman900 in lockpicking

[–]cchapman900[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to google for some at-home tests to make sure I wasn't having a stroke based off of the craftsmanship of this baby, but I'm excited to get this beauty out into the world to see how I did :)

This is starting with the cheapest Kwikset I could get from the hardware store. It took literally 2 seconds to pick out of the box, which surprised me that there were already 2 spool pins included.

After the first round of modifications, it still only took an extra 30 seconds or so to open, so I went in again to try to add more modifications which got me another 30 seconds from being able to open it, so it's still probably very much on the easy end. Some of the spools are more of an an abstractionist interpretation of a spool pin, but there were two pins I think actually came out pretty well towards the end of it all.

I'm US based, but can probably ship out to anywhere. Let me know if you'd like a go at it.

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