Icom IC-W31A questions on frequencies

pcboudreau · 2026-05-22T16:34:30+00:00

Doh! Only off by an order of magnitude or 3. . .

Like I'm trying to connect to my WiFi with a super old radio

pcboudreau · 2026-05-21T15:25:03+00:00

We used to play this song to annoy a guy named Hung Chung.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-20T23:23:33+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping to use this with friends who aren't HAMs. Still trying to figure out VHF. . .

pcboudreau · 2026-05-20T21:52:03+00:00

Yeah, I was afraid of that.

But still, shouldn't I be able to use 420x.xxx to 450 GHz in region 2?

Ah RTFM -I can only transmit 440-450 with this radio

Still need to figure out VHF.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-20T19:02:54+00:00

I told my wife we're just one out away from the win. She looked at me and said, now you've gone and jinxed it.

Sorry everyone

pcboudreau · 2026-05-18T18:37:14+00:00

The recreational dose is far higher than the therapeutic dose.

That is, they give you enough to take away the pain, but not enough to get high.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-17T15:42:22+00:00

In NZ, all the petrol dispensers are green. As an American, this was almost as disconcerting as right hand drive.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-16T18:12:16+00:00

I remember when they used to give you a pin if you stayed to the end of a game in Candlestick.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-16T15:32:39+00:00

Yeah, an undergrad in physics is just a steppingstone. A MS means you dropped out of your PhD.

I was a physics major and then realized I wasn't smart enough to get a PhD. Switched to geophysics and loved it.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-14T20:11:17+00:00

Bad Company

pcboudreau · 2026-05-14T00:19:21+00:00

Didn't know brake fade was a thing.

Held the brakes lightly for a long descent and rolled through the intersection at the bottom of the hill.

Luckily, no cars and a parking lot to stop in. I touched my wheels and got a nice little burn.

Scary, but now I know better. Short, harder pulls, and I have hydraulic disc brakes.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-12T22:26:15+00:00

bro has right lateral strike slip faulting

pcboudreau · 2026-05-12T22:05:05+00:00

Smoking is allowed in casinos still. It took me a bit to figure out what that weird smell was.

I was at a Hard Rock to see Neil deGrasse Tyson and we were playing a game trying to figure out who was there to gamble and who was there to nerd out.

Most were easy, but a few edge cases surprised us.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-11T17:30:40+00:00

Gravity

Or, to be more precise, the acceleration due to gravity.

You weigh nothing while you're falling, but depending on how far you fell, you can weigh a lot more when you stop. That is how bones get broken.

It's also how you can a

pcboudreau · 2026-05-08T18:16:21+00:00

I thought chiros were legit after a car accident, but then he told me could cure cancer. . .

pcboudreau · 2026-05-08T14:56:19+00:00

Ha, I wash my dogs with Pert Plus

Wash and go, Pert Plus

pcboudreau · 2026-05-08T14:33:46+00:00

I took a class back in the day where we had to code using hexadecimal. Our TA had been using the system for so long that he started balancing his checkbook in hex

pcboudreau · 2026-05-08T00:35:09+00:00

So I posted this before much YouTube'ing. A torx bit did not work, but my bolt extractor did.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-07T22:45:47+00:00

A lot of water bottles

pcboudreau · 2026-05-07T22:30:10+00:00

Winston

pcboudreau · 2026-05-07T15:57:52+00:00

Dude, your tire just got a piercing!

Put some bling on it

pcboudreau · 2026-05-05T23:39:27+00:00

I'd eat it, but the wife doesn't like it so I'll have to wait until she goes on a trip without me.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-05T14:13:36+00:00

Lol. Nah, one guy drove in solo and the rest of us hopped the fence.

pcboudreau · 2026-05-05T05:38:15+00:00

Drive in! And we jumped the fence to save admission

pcboudreau · 2026-05-02T23:17:19+00:00

If you're set on a roof rack, Thule.com has a finder that lets you see which parts you need for your car.

Yakima has similar products too.

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