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    For the audiophiles on the Hide, Western Electric is back.

    I still use a 2 meter linear with an Eimac 3cx800A7. I can get 1012W key down out. Back in the day, I built a 2 meter preamp with a 417A front end, and it was as good as it gets at the time. I was a kid and had some help. They told me the NF was about 2 db, which was really good at the time...
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    Maggie’s Socially UNacceptable Humor

    It gets better - look into his qualifications and credentials.
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    Any Scuba Fanatics here?

    I use a Buhlmann program with Baker gradient factors. I modify it a bit (based on experience) if I'm using helium (which I did quite a bit when it was $22 for a T bottle). I'm essentially using a computer; it just isn't on my wrist, but it will never get stupid and lock me out if I make a...
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    Any Scuba Fanatics here?

    Balancing the rig is a subject by itself, but it just common sense once you understand it. I have 2 stainless backplates (1 set up for wetsuit and 1 for drysuit), an aluminum one for cave diving in fresh water, and 2 single tank adapters, one of which has a few pounds of lead molded into it. I...
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    HAM radio Awesomeness Here!

    For the OP, my dad was a radio operator in the later part of WW2 in the western Pacific, and he said that his outfit had AN number gear but also had Hallicrafters receivers. He was in Panama in the beginning of the war, and there they had AN equipment, but his outfit got sucked up by a jungle...
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    Advice on training my Lab

    If you have your black lab trained enough to walk on a leash, go for walks in places where other people will be encountered. You can communicate with the dog through the leash. At first, you may have to occasionally grab its collar to restrain it. Our dog just wants to play and doesn't have a...
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    3D Printing - Want to Understand

    I'm still on my first printer, an Ender 3 Pro. The price was acceptable for a technology I might have decided is not for me. I'm still using it after a few years because it reliably does exactly what it's told. I have the ability to design parts with higher end (not for free) software, but I...
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    Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

    The genius in Led Zeppelin is extremely technical timing by Jimmy Page and John Bonham. The drums and guitar sometimes are on different time signatures, and sometimes change up by a half beat in a song. Try to figure out what's going on in "Black Dog".
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    Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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    Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

    It seems like an OK idea until you realize that idiots are deciding. I've been against it for a long time for just that reason. I have no problem with it if I'm the one who decides. Maybe that's not such a good idea either.
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    Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

    I don't remember exactly how old I was, but it was pre-teen when my dad (WW2, Panama Company then 1/158 Infantry) suggested I read "To Hell and Back". Our small town had a very new really tiny library that was open only on Tuesday afternoons, and I went there and asked for it. Almost 60 years...
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    Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

    Years ago I remember that a Japanese company made an underwire bra with Nitinol. You could put it in the washing machine, and the heat in the dryer would pop it back into shape.
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    Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

    They are not shy and will come in close to you. As you say, they just hang out and don't bother you. There are some wrecks in the Gulf (you get to them from Ft Meyers or Naples, and they are pretty far out) where there are often dozens of them.On the Baja California, we played cowboy trying to...
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    Maggie’s WW2 Sub Found

    That is a very cool find. Some friends and I spent a lot of time and money searching for things like this off the SC coast. We didn't find what we were looking for, but found a few other things that are interesting. Congrats to the Thailand team. I hope their find has not been looted by others...
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    Maggie’s Socially UNacceptable Humor

    I just play Carnival - sit on my face and I'll guess your weight.
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    Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

    The bees in that swarm are loaded down with honey and pollen and are in a very docile mood. They have left a hive with their aging queen to find a new home in which they will start a new colony. They have left enough resources for the original colony to renew itself. It is a macro reproduction...
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    Maggie’s THE "NOM NOM NOM" THREAD

    Skirt steak is a real treat when cooked this way: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/skirt-steak-recipe-2014004
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    Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

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    Fridges, whats the best one out there

    This morning I have to take everything out of our POS 5 YO Samsung and access the fan inside that has frozen up again. This is a common problem, and despite having performed two of Samsung's "fixes", it continues to happen. It doesn't take an engineer to see that the whole design is severely...
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    Old TV shows from years back

    Anyone remember Sledge Hammer?
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