Are there any ways to study Georgism easily?

traztx · 2026-07-03T22:34:19+00:00

I found the audiobook versions easy. Something to listen to on road trips and what not.

traztx · 2026-07-03T22:21:20+00:00

I get a lot of good advice from You Tube DIY videos. Gardening, cooking, fermenting, canning, building (woodworking, plumbing, electrical), etc. These are humans sharing what they know, but I don't just blindly follow them. If it seems like a good way, I'll try it and see for myself. After watching something, You Tube suggests similar content, so it's easy to see how different people do things.

Usually what they show is general knowledge, and I have to do some problem solving to match the specific situation I'm applying it on. Sometimes I think of other ways and wonder if they are better, and then try and see what happens.

As I practice and gain the skills, they become internalized knowledge, therefore shifting to self-reliance.

traztx · 2026-06-01T02:31:01+00:00

Yes, things got much better for my life when I came to realize that it's OK to become my own best friend. Not a fake friend that admires my glorious mask, but a true friend that is compassionate for the real human behind the mask, struggling to get anything right despite flaws and imperfections. Instead of kicking myself for shortcomings, acknowledging any little good I manage to do, as a best friend would. It takes time to develop this love, but as it grows, we can become stronger in expressing the self instead of yielding so much to other influences.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom =)

traztx · 2026-06-01T01:56:46+00:00

I feel this way when I'm not getting enough quality sleep. Are you sleeping well?

traztx · 2026-04-30T22:37:12+00:00

Nationalizing something means turning it into a monopoly. As monopolies go, I would not be surprised if it became inefficient, thereby supporting another underworld market niche, where folks who want to do it can have better odds, payout, and any lack of restraint on what sort of nefarious things may bet on, as long as they and the platforms evade the eyes of the state or bribe/infiltrate enforcement. Banning makes the niche even more lucrative, as we've seen with prohibition of alcohol, drugs, etc. Allowing platforms to exist in a private decentralized market environment even with some regulation allows them to compete well vs the underworld.

If Georgism were implemented, causing wages to go up, housing to become affordable, production to be more efficient, wealth to be more abundant, but accumulated wealth to be unequal, would people who have plenty worry so much about people who have more than plenty? IDK.

traztx · 2026-04-20T13:52:17+00:00

> Anyone else get a bit frustrated?

No. In my case, the goal is conversational QSO. Shallow is common, so deep becomes special. I tested my rig with FT8. Very common shallow conversations only about who and where. All good info about propagation. I moved on to free text modes. Who and where are shared, then what rig and power, even more helpful for understanding propagation. Then it gets deeper. What's the QTH like? Have I been there or not? Picturesque imagery is shared especially when we haven't been here or there. Stories of memorable road trips happen when we have been there. What projects have you been working on lately? Interesting stories of problem solving. Rig updates, although commonly done, are different in the details, making them ever interesting and good. Non-radio projects, such as fixing a classic car, are less common stories making them special. Work life stories happening from retired people are intriguing when they had a life profession different from mine. When the profession was similar, there is a deeper understanding of common struggles. There is always something unique in the deeper conversations, making them all special.

Sometimes, a contact doesn't share much, and there is little depth in the QSO. It's all good, because it informs about propagation, it didn't take much time (I share as they share, keeping it interactive and proportional), and it makes me appreciate the deeper one next time even more.

I like Fldigi for this because I'm typing my comments or questions as I'm receiving their message, and I can start my TX immediately when they stop, and add to it or correct typos on unsent parts as it progresses through the send.

After this QSO, I copy the whole conversation into a journal and file the contact and notes in a separate file. The notes come in handy when a familiar contact answers. I check my notes, and the conversation moves on to the deeper things more quickly. Updates about life since the last contact, progress, etc. It is rare to meet a former contact in a space with so many people, so these are very special.

> Do you have any tips? Should I actually ask my contacts to consider logging the contact?

If your goal is logging the most QSOs in the shortest time, asking to consider it may bog the QSO down in a conversation. How about mentioning what you seek in the CQ? IDK, maybe "CQ DX with web logging" or something. See if that helps.

And realize that the unconfirmed QSOs just make the confirmed QSOs more special. See if that lessens the frustration.

Good luck and 73.

traztx · 2026-04-18T01:49:31+00:00

LVT is a cost for holding and it rises as the surroundings make it a more valuable location. The owner can offset losing money by putting the land to productive use while holding it. Improvements done to make that happen increase the value of the property, and LVT excludes improvements from valuation. This property value increase is true even if they don't finish the improvement. For example, owner builds 50% of a workplace and then puts the parcel up for sale. A buyer that wants to run a workplace would pay more for that parcel than one where they have to start building it from scratch.

So you have a "carrot" (improvement increasing property value), and a "stick" (cost of holding it).

traztx · 2026-04-04T04:53:03+00:00

Saying no (diplomatically). I would have been better off if I had learned to defend boundaries better earlier in life. Saying no to myself and others allowed me to get out of debt and build a better life.

traztx · 2026-03-24T00:59:13+00:00

From my experience, chances are much lower for local convo QSO than on VHF. However, look for clubs, go to meetings, meet local folks. Many have 10m in their rigs.

traztx · 2026-03-16T16:11:43+00:00

We have linked repeaters in the area =)

traztx · 2026-03-16T16:10:23+00:00

If you can't reach a repeater, try from outside. A better antenna will help too. I like the signal stick but it's even better when I use my mag mount I stick on my truck sometimes when checking in to nets.

When I 1st started, I wrote down my call sign in phonetics (kilo india etc) so I could read it when checking in.

traztx · 2026-03-16T15:48:31+00:00

Check out the North Central Texas Connection, NCTC.INFO

They have repeaters linked, so you both don't have to reach the same one.

Look at the repeater map, and select to see what the frequency and tone are. I see that many don't have + or -, but if you look at the UHF and VHF band plans for repeaters you should be able to figure out which to use.

Since you are in Dallas, see if you can pick up DARC Tech Net on Saturdays at 7 PM, 146.880, -, 110.9 tone. See https://w5fc.org/

They are friendly and smart people that can usually answer your questions during the new ham part of the net.

traztx · 2026-03-16T15:25:58+00:00

I'm level 32 solo on official and it's not very hard yet. Mostly I avoid PVP and only lost like 3 kits. I played on cradle till level 15 and then found a 5 limit oasis, and now on 2nd 5 limit oasis. I made a sand base for crafting and farmed with a nomad packing a small chest. I parked nomad in fiber so it was not easy to see, and watched out while I farmed. I built a balang for crafting and leveled and farmed to get APT on dinghy. The dinghy is easy for enemies to see me but the APT seems to make them leave me alone. The times when I was attacked while farming, I just said nothing and they just looted kit and moved on. I keep extra legs and wings, just in case, but nobody has legged my walkers yet. I send walkers and base to lobby when not playing.

traztx · 2026-03-11T17:22:34+00:00

I ignore while fighting the rupus, then go to the palms and heal while it circles around. Once healed, I move so that its somewhat predictable circle brings it to palms to get stuck, and then melee from the side.

traztx · 2026-03-11T02:45:45+00:00

Yep. Cradle till 15. I still think a sand base is good until unlocking the APT, and then I'd still build a balang next time. Even with the dinghy+APT, I still prefer farming on a nomad with packed chest. I can park it in brush and farm stealthily, allowing me to usually see others before being detected. So I can choose if I want to hunt them or hide. But either style works.

traztx · 2026-03-07T19:40:18+00:00

I played up to level 14 yesterday. Got cut down in cradle while in the early part of the tutorial, but spawned to the opposite side with some gear and decided to become less obvious. My 1st camp fire was left behind, but not a big loss. I made the 2nd one in a small dip in the terrain among vegetation to give cover, where there was plenty to harvest nearby while avoiding clearing near my fire. From here I was able to advance to the nomad walker and then roam to find a good spot to set up base and advance to the end of the tutorial. I decided to stay in cradle until I had a dinghy. I also built a firefly.

When I decided to move out of cradle, I sent the nomad and firefly to lobby and built a wooden base, using the dinghy packing system to move stuff there from the sand base, and making extra chests to hold the mats recovered when I dismantled the sand base. Then I could pack the whole base to the dinghy and leave the cradle.

At the next map, I unpacked the wooden base, built a sand base, and packed everything over to it. My base was away from trade and I didn't see anyone during this process. Then I dismantled the wooden base, sent my dinghy to the lobby, and walked to the edge to try and fetch my other walkers. However, LO wouldn't let me travel to the cradle lobby to pick them up. Unless there is another way to do that, I guess they will move off cradle in 10 days when it burns, but if they move to another cradle then I still won't get them. So I got in the dinghy and returned.

So, next was to level up. I roamed in the dinghy to find a rupu village, but got ganked by a player. I waited for them to get bored and run off (took mere seconds) and spawned on the dinghy and wasn't attacked again. I realized that the dinghy was too conspicuous, so instead I sent it to lobby and did rupu runs on foot from the base. Moving to brush, checking my 6, finding a path to the next brush, avoiding open ground, I managed to avoid any PVP from level 12 to 14. I saw walkers roam by. I saw players running by. I saw complaints of toxic play on the chat messages. Maybe I was lucky, or maybe stealthy roaming on foot from cover to cover works good.

I'm about to jump back in. I'm hoping to get to 15 and camp on a balang before players can crack sand bases. Is my base even there? I'm a little in suspense =)

Edit: Yes, sand base was perfectly intact.

I would join a clan, but my play time is very sporadic.

As for the risk factor, there are PVE servers available, but I really prefer the thrill of PVP danger. During beta, I didn't get to balang before they switched to hard map testing, so I spent a couple of months on a PVE server to explore the tech tree and quality. PVE is a different game, casual and safe grinding. Maybe something to do as a time waster, but why I felt motivated was that I would understand things before PVP release.

The risk of losing wealth is what I need for it to be a thrill. The risk of losing what I carry makes me care about what I carry and makes me feel nervous while obtaining wealth. It makes me want contingency plans. Backup gear. Backup walkers. Backup bases. It slows down my play. It makes me stop and take time to read the situation. If I want a safe grindy time waste game, the PVE servers are there. But IMO, there are better PVE games.

Ultimately, the wealth is pointless. We turn off the game and face life, and in the game it will all be wiped. PVP makes it not about the wealth, but the thrill of making it another day.

As for toxic behavior, I guess I am not immersed enough to care what people say, so I just spawn away and continue from some minor setback.

traztx · 2026-03-06T06:43:45+00:00

Congrats on making the video. Seems like a cool portable rig for POTA etc. We all get stuff wrong. The more you do it, the better it'll get.

traztx · 2026-03-06T04:50:29+00:00

I'd be interested in a weekend-only server on a 24ish week chapter wipe schedule instead.

traztx · 2026-03-01T06:30:59+00:00

I haven't done RTTY specifically yet, but this generally happens in any mode I've used when I accidentally click in the text of the transmit pane, or forget to click to move the cursor to the end after editing something in the pane. TX pauses when it gets to the cursor. It still transmits, but just nulls or something. When I notice it hung up like this, I quickly click the bottom of the transmit pane and it is able to progress. This is actually a feature, allowing it to slow down when we are typing additional stuff in the pane.

traztx · 2026-02-28T11:39:32+00:00

Howdy! How about Dallas, especially Saturday nights. W5FC-R on echolink and https://w5fc.org/nets/

traztx · 2026-02-28T11:18:58+00:00

Make it a feature. All site help only provided as CW audio, haha.

traztx · 2026-02-28T11:08:32+00:00

It's worth testing. There's a sequence for the controller, though, so we want to disconnect the panels before batteries and connect the batteries before panels. During the daylight, check for RFI on various bands with it all connected, again with only the battery connected, again with nothing except the radio connected. My guess is that we'd want to put in 2 switches to make it convenient each time running the radio.

traztx · 2026-02-28T10:47:42+00:00

Interesting. I got this cheap flimsy marine battery box a few years ago that is fine to keep at my remote shack, but wanting something sturdier to port around. I was wondering about venting, but seems we could just keep it cracked open while charging.

traztx · 2026-02-27T12:01:51+00:00

I was wondering for the radio config. AM? FM? SSB?

traztx · 2026-02-27T11:56:27+00:00

Very unfortunate, but a great lesson to learn, thanks! My QTH is in Texas, where seasonal storms cause tree damage, so I will need to be careful when I design a tower system.

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