I can’t say that it has broad interest, but he FAA in the US publishes weather reports from many airports in the US called “METAR”. There is a publicly-accessible API you can use and the data is updated hourly or more and it contains a date-time group so you can check freshness of the data.
I have no idea. I used a web translator.
Well, part of that is owed to the fact they were basically using a speaking code, Cockney.
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That’s got to be a great photo, too!
The tide swings can get pretty large in any season on the bay; there’s also wind-effect tides as well. This photo could be nearly anywhere, my guess is just conjecture from seeing what looks like brackish water and a dilapidated covered dock.
I’m willing to bet somewhere on the Chesapeake.
The device was not an ordinary smart watch made by Apple or Samsung, but a special type that US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) had mandated the woman wear at all times, allowing the agency to track her. The device was beeping when she entered the hospital, indicating she needed to charge it, and she worried that if the battery died, ICE agents would think she was trying to disappear, the hospital workers recalled. She told them that, just days earlier, she had been put on a deportation flight to Mexico, but the pilot refused to let her fly because she was so close to giving birth.
This situation is still fucked up.
Or to Stranger in a Strange Land, at least the very beginning.
However you go about it, keep it simple. If it’s complicated or a chore to do, compliance will likely fall off and you might not maintain it.
I do the YMD thing with folders, but fail to do the text file; it’s not a deal killer for me, but there are times we have to figure out what on earth we were doing. We can get a lot of contextual clues from the photos themselves. Depending on what you’re shooting, establishing shots can be really helpful.
Folders get YYYY-MM-DD, files get whatever they get. A simple text.txt file get placed in each folder describing the photos of that day.
When you borrow $1M from the bank, it’s your problem. When you borrow $100M, it’s the bank’s problem.
Relevant XKCD, as always:
XKCD//2347
Hey everyone, that guy doesn’t know how to use the three seashells lol
I bet it’s just off-gassing the spine glue or cover coating or ink. Set them someplace outside but shaded and out of the elements for a few days.
There is certainly a lot to learn, and you would benefit greatly from joining the hobby officially. If you are US-based, you can take the amateur radio exam after memorizing the answers for the exam (a legal and encouraged practice), the exam itself can be administered remotely via Zoom.
I am beyond my technical knowledge if I tried to explain why we use transformers to get an impedance match; I only know what we do.
Great questions, one which highlights my own knowledge gap beyond knowing that for a given feedline and antenna combination, you’ll have some measure of impedance. At the most basic level, your radio will “see” some impedance value. In the amateur radio world this is generally 50Ω. If our antenna system (feedline + radiator) presents 450Ω (quite common), we use a 9:1 transformer to get it to match. This allows us to use our radio on that system without (1) stray current returning to the radio and damage our transmission circuits, and (2) at full power but with inherent loss of signal owing to antenna inefficiency.
Case in point, I have a commercially-purchased multi-band EFHW antenna which presents varying amounts of impedance to the radio. This system includes a transformer (I think it’s 9:1) so that on the bands of interest, there’s a resistance match and as a result an SWR that’s suitable to make decent transmissions on.
As a tangential example, J-pole antennas have a built-in matching system which uses no special parts. It’s composed of a matching section and radiator. The combination of matching section, radiator length, and physical feedpoint allow this type of antenna to sort of self-manage impedance.
The difference here is that a j-pole is a monoband antenna, and a long wire with transformer can often be functional on many bands, depending on length, where the lowest useable frequency is the inverse of its length.
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