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Yep. Here in Portland we also have services like ReachNow & Car2Go which have the cars sprawled out around the city rather than needing to go to a specific place. As a cyclist, I w…

Why not rent a gas car for the one day a year you need that distance? That's sort of where I'm ending up. Not w/ electric vehicles, but with bicycling. I bike commute year-round & …

I ride 6 miles to work and pack my work clothes. It only takes me 25-30 minutes. If I arrive to work sweaty, I shower. I know not everyone has the luxury of having a shower at work…

Hey that's cool. Username is efosmark.

That's a great comparison, and is a concept bolstered by the coming GDPR rules in the EU.

Be sure to also learn best practices & procedures on how to be a good operator if you go this route. The ARRL tech manual is great for this. This is similar to what I did; I bought…

It really is a hobby so rich & vast it can take a whole lifetime to explore. So much fun. 73, de K7FOS

He's wrong. You don't need to use the internet to talk to someone from Australia. Using HF radio you can talk all over the world just using the Earth's ionosphere.

You can talk to someone in Australia without routing through the internet. Through HF radio (3MHz-30MHz), you can bounce radio signals off of the Earth's ionosphere and talk all ar…