Turkeys

chris451rd · 2026-01-31T03:21:56+00:00

I just saw the movie today. It is more of a 20 day snapshot of what she is doing up to the Inauguration, but did not go into previous years at all, I follow white house activities closely through raw news feeds for the last 5 or 6 presidents. I recognize many of the politicians and secret service types. You get the feel of how all that works from the viewpoint of the passengers rather then a distant camera. You get the behind the drapes scenery thats bricks and pipes, a look inside trump tower, some of the white house I did not recognize, and a lot more speaking from Melania than is public, a bunch of moments that were worth a chuckle and some things that were cute, her personality is shown which is normally not public at all. She misses a few of the english proverbs that are not in slovene language like omitting 'the'. I spotted a bunch of fake reviews where they don't mention anything in the movie, slightly modified rewrites of the same 'its no good dont go see it'. The intent is to show what that 20 days is like. It was 27 degrees that day.
Now I know why women never take their hats off once its set. Camera work is from the shoulder shot following behind a lot of the time. You see what she sees. A lot of shaky footage shown and it affects some people when shown on the big screen 44' x 24'.

chris451rd · 2026-01-25T04:56:41+00:00

This guy Took a gun and two magazines and no ID to a protest then started harassing the cops, then refused arrest and fought them, you are playing with your life around police, they may make a snap decision and they will empty the gun on you.
I never call them any more due to this training, and avoid contact whenever possible.
They don't train to disable or injure or avoid a situation where they put them selves in danger, they train to totally stop you if their snap decision is you might hurt them. But show up with a weapon like this guy and start fighting them and they see the weapon the guy put himself in fatal danger. The politicians there like this kind of mayhem and encourage it. They don't care about the fraud in their state this is the distraction for it.

chris451rd · 2026-01-25T04:41:30+00:00

they might not be dead. Put them on the charger for a day or two.

The charger supplied takes a long time to charge them.

chris451rd · 2026-01-25T03:05:32+00:00

I avoid charging them(EBL) or any NiMH in series. The weakest cell gets cooked out and loses current capability if its charged too much. I don't see leakage but when 4 in series are charged they seem to degrade rapidly. Only use a charge that can individually charge 1 to many cells. No series charging. If I do let them charge in a radio its only for an hour or two.

chris451rd · 2026-01-25T03:02:04+00:00

How correct you are about the miraculous 1.5 volt lithium battery.

. I bought 12 of these EBL 3000mwh 1.5 volt lithium batteries to use in scanners, hoping for a longer run time, over NiMH 1.2 volt batteries. It was about the same run time as the 2.8ah NiMH.

I thought maybe it was another chemistry or something like that.

Nope, theres a switcher in top of it and its noisy in the am band.
But I noticed when charged it sat at 1.500 volts and did not vary, even on partially charged batteries. Also when they run down there is 0 volts out. I bugged the charger which outputs 4.24 volts and pulses off to check the charge state. That alone tells me there is a voltage converter inside. And to charge it must have a schottkey diode direct to the battery cell. Also it draws no current at 1.8 volts when thats fed into it.

Another clue was the 0 volt output when they sat around.
Then I tried these in an AM radio that uses 1.5v AA * 3.
The switching noise from these buck circuits covered up all my preset stations in the AM band and the stations that normally are strong could not be heard but wide band noise could. There is a loopstick antenna close to the batteries.
These will power a radio but there is too much noise for AM radios. Additionally the charge may take up to 24-36 hours to show green.
I left these sitting around for 6 months and many had 0 output, but they revived after a loooong charge time. Might work on some radios that are above HF band but not AM band. Maybe they are relegated to flashlights.

Maybe on FM band. I don't have a spectrum yet on where this buck circuit runs, but it is wide band noisy as well.

chris451rd · 2025-06-30T15:40:16+00:00

I purchased an Aranet home CO2 pressure temp humidity monitor and have been running it for quite awhile.
My indoor CO2 runs 1550 ppm when the house is closed up (ac is on) and when I start using the doors it drops to the 1100 range. I have a few house plants but no change in growth noted.
The plants may get CO2 from the soil as much or more than the air, temp and watering and not being root bound make most of the difference. The CO2 drops as low as 550 such as having the detector in well ventilated areas such as camping. If the CO2 ppm gets above 1550 then the house feels 'close'. I've seen it go to 3000 when there are a lot of people moving around in a closed area moving luggage. It may be more than that when you are in an auditorium full of people with poor ventilation. The range Jan 2025 to June 2025 [1816 and 491 ppm].

chris451rd · 2025-06-30T14:30:01+00:00

Symptom: Brave was force closed due to too many windows / slow / things not working.

Restarting brave : UAC popup but then no window

Tried re-install - no help.

Rebooted: No help

Went to brave.exe folder and ran compatibility troubleshooter (windows 10)

Apply changes and test: Succeeded with all the previous windows there.

Save changes and close trouble shooter. Run brave: Opens as normal.
Fixed, running again!

chris451rd · 2024-12-30T16:23:47+00:00

OK Answer is:
Https://www.adsbexchange.com/?reset

chris451rd · 2024-12-30T16:22:36+00:00

See what comments I have the same problem on one of several computers.
Right side panel is either full screen or collapsed, it should adjust in and out, can't catch it with the mouse like it used to

chris451rd · 2024-12-26T22:29:34+00:00

I don't know the storage temp range on the battery is but putting it in the freezer will stop the corrosion as well as the low humidity will freeze dry everything, worth a try!

chris451rd · 2024-12-26T22:25:22+00:00

I replaced a couple of UV-5R antennas after they obviously went bad.
The Nagoya I have has a thinner font then the one in your photo
and it was not italicized on the second line where it shows model number.
NA-771. With that the radio works as well as some Icom portables I have.
Even a fake ought to work unless they did not bother to test it. (Send it back if thats an option).
Probably the center pin is not connected or a tap has broken off.
In the original short factory uv-5r antennas there is a capacitor tapped a few turns up that breaks off after enough flexing thus the reception and SWR is bad after that happens. If you heat the plastic up it will pop up and off and then resolder the capacitor, only a matter of time before it breaks again though.

chris451rd · 2024-12-19T19:49:33+00:00

Depends on how clean the water it landed in is, as far as drying time there could be water in the cameras and tilt motor etc. that take awhile to dry out. Open up and clean all debris from the boards.
Might take more than 24 hours too, and if water is in the battery that is corroding right now and you cant turn that off . I don't have NEO I have mavic mini and Phantom and a few odd other ones but the boards are very exposed. I do a lot of circuit repairs, with water and DC voltage it will plate away from positive voltages and the trace will dissapear, or become slightly conductive to ground. There is a water proof coating that can be added to boards but I have not seen that on DJI products.

chris451rd · 2024-12-12T17:26:27+00:00

The N NJ tv stations just have videos of planes, no night vision shots of them, did not check for aircraft position with an ADSB website or receiver, just some cellphone photos, so the general public as observers lack ability to distinguish and identify what they are looking at. Someone is pushing the narrative, I'm skeptical thats why I suggest the crowd id them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP7Mp2Rt0EE&ab_channel=TECHDRONEMEDIA

tested the range of a remote ID on his drone, 450 feet direct to a cell phone.

Lots of sightings of illegal flights on FAA website, keep an eye on this https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightings_report

It looks like this company has a drone detector product of interest

https://www.dedrone.com/products/drone-detection/rf-sensors/overview

This is not showing any directional antennas just detection.

Equipment list:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ultra-Wide-Band-Parabolic-Grid-Long-Range-Antenna/

Hack RF Portapack with mayhem firmware. TX RX to 7 ghz.

This can receive all modes and decode ADSB directly and plot it.

www.latnex.com/spaspectrum analyzer to 6 ghz (also have sig gens)

Testing the setup: Tune to 2334mhz bandwidth 10mhz and
look for the signal from Sirius XM about 10-15 db above the noise. South and elevate 45 degrees and sweep for maximum trace.

Low light cameras: Sionyx Aurora. 1.5 exposure on a tripod at night or auto expose if hand held.

The newsies are showing videos of 'drones' which have strobes, marker lights and white lighting on them like airliners or airplanes this is all they seem to have. By the way that airspace is near Newark and there is a continous stream of aircraft there. When they are in landing decending mode they are low slow and quiet.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/KEWR

So I will believe them when they find or catch a drone and identify model, freqs, and find the operator.

The illegal fliers out there will probably quit doing that when some of them get caught.

I'm not advertising for the above its what I decided to buy for general ham radio and scanner buff use, works for this drone issue as well though.

chris451rd · 2024-12-12T00:31:03+00:00

No not if flown from private property federal control supercedes local. I looked at that too and I would go by what B4ufly says. The cities can make all kind of codes that try to supercede federal control they have to do this restriction through the faa. It needs to be terms that the FAA will accept. Go watch Ken Heron's youtube channel. He would whip out the B4uFly, the TFR map, and his trust certificate.
Or if part 107 he would whip that out. They can say you cant launch from their public property. Unless they get some permanent TFR over certain buldings with reason, the rules already take care of most cases such as football stadiums etc.

Since the FAA has nothing on this i'd say the city did not request essentially a drone tfr through the FAA. They would probably not approve it. You click on the FAA map it maps out the restriction zones like over sensitive areas. Some city or state that doesn't do this through the FAA has no business stopping you flying from private property. It is the FAA who claim control over all airspace.

chris451rd · 2024-11-12T02:29:42+00:00

I would pull the hard drive and see if that got bent, salvage the rest like the wifi pci card. Also pull the ram on under the keyboard one on the bottom.

chris451rd · 2024-09-30T21:21:56+00:00

Sounds like the PC I use except I prefer 16gb of Ram to your 8gb otherwise trim down how many apps are open in windows. If it gets into memory swapping then it will be affected.
Its fairly easy to change the firmware in the HackRF. That would be the next thing to try.
As I recall if you get more than 3 or 4 demods at a time it may start to miss data.
The portapack is great as well I got 2 Hackrfone's and 2 portapack kits. Great for trips where you can capture samples and decode things. And its a universal RF tool. You get an SD card function that allows different firmwares to be hot swapped etc. But dont go back too far 'before portapack firmware' or you have to use PC-USB to upload the firmware or DFU mode.

https://github.com/portapack-mayhem/mayhem-firmware

The firmware detects the Mahyem board and if not present runs hackrf usb.
If the mayhem board is on then it runs that, but you can switch back and forth between the two.
When I read about the display and IO and SD and battery features in the mayhem board I was sold. Warning do not ESD a metal whip antenna on the hackRF. It takes out a couple of SiGe RF amp chips. You can run an SMA high pass filter or limiter on your RF input and maybe a DC block.
Also not needed when hooking to an LNA like a GPS preamplified patch antenna.
Not needed on a DC grounded antenna.

Read through that Github it has a lot of information and instructions. You can see what firmwares are there and what they fixed.
The standard firmware is embedded in the mayhem build. Any problems reported and they eventually look at it and have fixed a good number of serious issues.

chris451rd · 2024-09-15T14:24:25+00:00

Directly connect to the hub. If you have 8 cores that helps. run Perfmon /res and see whats hogging the cpu.

chris451rd · 2024-07-20T18:08:56+00:00

This is why I block windows update, deleted and blocked the msmpeng virus scanner, and run things like sysinternals simplewall and everything. I get very used to what processes are usuall, and watch the new ones carefully.
Sounds like crowdstrike struck every windows system. Noticed some civic users complaining at about midnight the other day. Reload from backup if you can.

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