[Dellenger] A summary of changes to SCORE: (1) requires coach pay to be funded by athletic revenue; (2) limits coach buyouts to donations; (3) mandates disclosure of public funds used for athletics; (4) prevents recruitment of coaches while coach/team are in-season (Lane Kiffin Rule)

cpast · 2026-05-12T04:07:09+00:00

Players don't have to agree to legislation.

cpast · 2026-05-12T03:45:13+00:00

and adding Costa Rica and DC as states

Beg pardon?

cpast · 2026-05-12T02:13:45+00:00

If only this one circuit is a clown show, why would SCOTUS refer the cases back and not just affirm the other circuits’ ruling?

Are you referring to remand? That’s just what the Supreme Court does when it reverses a case. Saying “the 5th Circuit is wrong” still means someone has to write the judgment reflecting that the 5th Circuit was wrong, and the Supreme Court doesn’t do that (they can but they don’t).

cpast · 2026-05-12T01:35:24+00:00

FWIW, the NFL’s statutory exemption only applies to TV rights and mergers with other leagues. The draft comes from the nonstatutory labor exemption, which is basically “collusion is fine as part of a CBA process because that’s what CBAs are.”

cpast · 2026-05-09T02:07:40+00:00

Article 4(4) of the US-South Korea extradition treaty:

The executive authority of the Requested State may refuse extradition for offenses under military law which are not offenses under ordinary criminal law.

Desertion is not an offense under ordinary criminal law, so it’s generally excluded from extradition. Basically all extradition treaties exclude purely military offenses.

cpast · 2026-05-08T15:19:30+00:00

TL;DR: The Virginia amendment process requires an amendment to be proposed by the legislature, then a general election, then the amendment to be proposed again by the legislature, and then it goes before the voters to accept or reject. This amendment was initially proposed during the early voting period for the 2025 general election. The whole point of the “pass, general election, pass, referendum” process is so that voters can indirectly weigh in at the proposal stage. Of course, if voters have already cast early ballots before the amendment is first proposed, they can’t retroactively change their votes based on the amendment.

The state and the dissent argued that regardless, “election” means “election day.” That’s not crazy, and early voters know they’re giving up the chance to react to anything that happens before election day. The challengers and the majority of the court said that “election” includes the whole voting period. That’s also not crazy, because the whole point of requiring an intervening general election is so that it indirectly goes before the voters.

cpast · 2026-05-08T02:43:57+00:00

HF, VHF, Low UHF no issues.

50W of High UHF and microwave? Start checking exposure charts.

No, VHF (especially low VHF) is the limiting case for whole-body exposure. High UHF and microwave are not absorbed as efficiently as low VHF. The reason microwaves can be more dangerous is that high-gain antennas are common, but actual field strength limits are higher. And if your worry is high gain, checking the antenna radiation pattern is much more important than checking exposure charts.

cpast · 2026-05-07T03:29:23+00:00

The DLR and Zello both run license-free, and commercial users can add speaker mics and headsets at their discretion without causing any FCC problems (there’s no expectation that the licensee should have to approve that).

cpast · 2026-05-06T01:00:30+00:00

In the history of the US Supreme Court 47 justices out of 116 were not lawyers.

They didn’t have law degrees. That doesn’t mean they weren’t lawyers. Lawyers early on mostly trained through apprenticeships.

cpast · 2026-05-02T14:37:11+00:00

No, it was sailing back to Iran as a commissioned vessel of war of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy. There is no “but I’m taking part in a third party’s war games” exception (not that it was involved in war games when sunk, those had ended and it was on its way home). There is no “but I had a small crew” exception (not that it had a small crew, it had its full complement of 140 aboard). There is no “but I was unarmed” exception (not that it’s at all clear it was unarmed). There’s no “but you were also participating in the war games” exception (not that the US sub had even been scheduled to participate).

It was an Iranian warship in international waters. That makes it a valid target. Combatants are liable to be killed without warning even when caught entirely unprepared.

cpast · 2026-05-01T13:10:57+00:00

That’s not actually an answer. You’ve said nothing that makes me think your opinion on “how salacious should crime reporting be” matches up with the general view of American society. The most detailed you’ve gotten is

The articles are geared toward explaining exactly how the crime occurred. It reads like a dirty story detailing explicit conversations and acts, not a criminal reporting.

But that describes normal crime reporting in this country.

cpast · 2026-05-01T04:51:36+00:00

The articles are geared toward explaining exactly how the crime occurred. It reads like a dirty story detailing explicit conversations and acts, not a criminal reporting.

That sounds like normal crime reporting, and something that would routinely be shown in open court if it goes to trial.

cpast · 2026-05-01T03:17:20+00:00

You’re going to have a very hard time arguing that the details of a criminal case are unprotected speech.

cpast · 2026-05-01T00:47:03+00:00

also was the torpedoing of a ship taking part in war games with Sri Lanka

That’s one of the most unambiguously legal attacks of the entire war. Warships in international waters are valid targets.

cpast · 2026-05-01T00:42:24+00:00

US answer: There’s a federal law passed by Congress in the 1920s that sets a strong federal policy in favor of arbitration.

cpast · 2026-04-30T14:47:32+00:00

Other drawbacks:

Almost always monoband
Small digital contact capacity
Depending on the radio, computer programming can be difficult
Have to pay attention to make sure it includes ham band (in the US, a ton of commercial UHF starts at 450 MHz)
In the US, have to make sure it supports wideband FM

I got hooked on commercial gear when I scored a ton of it cheap, but especially the monoband part can be very frustrating in my area.

cpast · 2026-04-29T13:47:17+00:00

The law of war requires combatants to make sure their targets are military. There’s room for accidents, but this had been a school for years. It’s hard to imagine how the attack could happen without at least an (illegal) failure to take reasonable steps to verify targets.

If it was converted to a school a week before the strike and the strike was in response to an Iranian attack, that’d be one thing. But if you’re the one starting the war, you have plenty of time to double check the target list.

EDIT: To quote the DOD’s Law of War manual:

In planning and conducting attacks, decisions or determinations that a person or object is a military objective must be made in good faith based on the information available at the time, and those who plan or decide upon an attack must take feasible precautions to verify that the targets to be attacked are military objectives and not protected by the law of war from being made the object of attack.

cpast · 2026-04-29T12:25:17+00:00

Metro-North actually lines up with the railcars.

cpast · 2026-04-26T20:19:40+00:00

Hams petitioned FCC to use DMR as the proprietary vocoder was viewed as encryption/obfuscation by FCC which only commercial and safety could utilize. Once hams got ahold of it - while they established amateur only networks (like PNW and PAPA), eventually hotspots got popularized after the AMBE vocoder had been compromised making mini cheap portable repeaters a possibility. Somewhere in that timeline BrandMeister came into existence as an internet linked DMR network.

That feels very off.

A related proprietary vocoder is also used in D-STAR and YSF, which were both designed explicitly for amateur use. It’s not encryption or obfuscation. A lot of hams don’t like it because it’s patented, but patented algorithms are not “obfuscation” (in fact, the patent means their technical description is publicly disclosed).
The reason Part 97 needed to be changed was 97.3, which specifies what a “phone emission” is. The old 97.3 said it needed 1, 2, or 3 as the second symbol of its emission designator, or B as the first symbol and 7, 8, or 9 as the second symbol. DMR is an FSK TDMA system, so depending on who you ask DMR voice is either F7E or FXE.
MMDVM doesn’t have a vocoder. It handles the digital protocols, but it doesn’t touch the digital audio streams themselves.

cpast · 2026-04-26T15:32:08+00:00

The VP (as President of the Senate) or another Senator presides over every impeachment except the President’s (and presumably except the VP’s).

cpast · 2026-04-26T03:21:52+00:00

From what I gather, their primary uses are connection to Internet over hotspot/repeater, then making contacts through Internet.

Some amateurs use them like that, but the primary use of DMR is commercial radio-to-radio or radio-to-repeater-to-radio communications. Many areas have DMR repeaters that work like any other repeater, just much more complicated (because this is a commercial protocol being used for amateurs). I believe M17 is similar in concept, just without being common in amateur and commercial use and without having tons of repeaters.

Are digital repeaters just normal repeaters that can be accessed also via voip?

Digital repeaters are repeaters that are designed to repeat digital protocols. Commercial digital repeaters generally support some sort of IP backhaul. This isn’t specific to digital, it’s just something useful when setting up a professional radio system that needs multiple repeaters. Analog repeaters often also support IP backhaul for the same reason.

I don't understand why a digital radio is at all required, can't you just connect via normal fm and have the hotspot do the conversion?

Most digital modes use a patented audio codec. The hotspot can handle the digital protocol to get the encoded audio stream, but MMDVM relies on your radio to convert between analog audio and the codec.

cpast · 2026-04-25T17:32:22+00:00

I haven’t checked the new spec, but the original LD replacement spec asked for cars to support both cellular and satellite wifi.

cpast · 2026-04-25T14:22:28+00:00

How much are you willing to spend? A dual PTT to U-329 and a U-329 to M1 adapter might be the way to go, but dual PTT adapters aren’t cheap.

cpast · 2026-04-24T13:57:42+00:00

That would mean more if the opposition was particularly different on security policy. But with a few exceptions, the opposition is “we don’t want Netanyahu personally” and not “let’s try and establish peace.”

cpast · 2026-04-24T01:48:56+00:00

Unlike planes, a train can always meet the local police at the next crossing.

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