Clicking the headphone icon to hear the audio option is the way to bypass this if you get one.

Fair warning, this rabbit hole goes deep … very deep!

I haven't met a shallow ham hole yet!

laws and requirements for grounding (and associated lighting protection) vary across the globe and within a country

Yes, was curious to get an international picture of practices here...

your best bet is a locally licensed electrician or better yet, one who is also an amateur.

Fair enough, you've inspired me to at least ask my club if we have an amateur radio electrician in the area. I do have a pretty simple station, however, so I had planned to do this myself. [edit: grammar fix]

Where is the best community on Lemmy for Meshcore?

Yeah, looks like my Ubuntu copy of OnlyOffice only writes ODT or OTT, not ODF.

Right, just a typo.

Yes, I don’t use them regularly but the audio captchas don’t have a good reputation among blind users.

.ODF is listed as an extension for "formulae, mathematical equations" on that Wikipedia page.

Could it be a general “community preparedness” umbrella community that includes CERT but could also include, say, mutual aid radio activities?

Cool study, good report! Lots of interesting things there, including the variability of the Baofengs.

Yes, seems like the consensus here is towards a separate bruiser that’s not too precious.

So what are people writing about? Please share your comments and thoughts.

The ARRL post leaves a lot to be desired; I tried to capture the most basic information about this here:

https://medium.com/...

My Triangle Mutual Aid Communications club inherits "points of unity" from our parent TMA org. We sometimes reference them when comments get out of hand on Discord, so in that way the Points act like a more positively-framed code of conduct.

My more traditional ARRL-affiliate club does not have a code of conduct. I've only been a member a short time, so I don't have any experience with the club managing conflict. I think individuals are mostly left to resolve things on their own...or not.

I'm not suggesting anything illegal. I think we're having a misunderstanding based on the different ways this works in the US vs Australia? I've edited my question to clarify I'm in the US, where "public service" (being communications support for primarily bike and foot races, where I live) does indeed happen on the amateur VHF/UHF bands.

This is who I volunteer with, for context: https://hpsnc.org/

Why do you need DC to pass through the protector? This is one of the things I don't understand!

Don't do that, Cat 6 is strictly for microphone cables!