You should check out Ham Radio Crash Cpurse on YouTube. Lots of great info there.

Most activity, I’ve seen here: !amateurradio@lemmy.ko4abp.com but there’s a lemmy bug that’s not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.

These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016123

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015573

They are fine for starting out with, but you’ll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.

Ham radio! It’s relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.

All the ones mentioned mostly. But also Linux in the Ham Shack.

I put on ska on easy days sometimes. Today I listened to Supernothing by Streetlight Manifesto like 3 times.

It’s near enough the big city that I can go do fun things when I want, but it’s quiet here and not a lot of traffic.

Yes. I think it’s because I’m a monthly supporter though. It seems to have a big psychological effect in that I want my money’s worth, and I want Lemmy to succeed. So I comment and post quite a bit to help keep communities active.

I’ve been here 1 month and haven’t logged into Reddit since then. I vastly prefer it here. People are friendlier.

That’s just white gravy. https://www.thekitchn.com/white-gravy-recipe-23263164 make some for your mashed potatoes, too!

If it helps, the cut of meat you use for it is a cheap one and shouldn’t set you back much. Pretty much the only way it’s usable is by frying it. It’s not chicken, but beef. There’s also chicken fried chicken, which has a confusing name, but is just chicken cooked in the same manner as chicken fried steak.

Both are best served with mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli.

Edit: I misunderstood. You know it’s not chicken. Sorry, I’m on my second beer lol. Anyway, I think you’d like both dishes. I’m from the Southern US and it’s a common food here. One of my absolute favorites.

Ha!

If you aren’t American and haven’t tried it, give it a shot! It’s so good.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/chicken-fried-steak-with-gravy-recipe-1925056

Chicken fried steak

I was on the fence about it until the Spez AMA. Then, I decided I’d be leaving on the 30th.

Then, I had a user call me “fucking stupid” for supporting a sub shutting down, and that was the final straw for me. I had seen how friendly people on Lemmy are and this showed me how toxic Reddit is by comparison. So I immediately nuked all my comments & posts and deleted my account. This was around two weeks ago and I’ve been much happier here.

This is precisely my experience. I am a recovering big L Libertarian (in the USA sense). Now I’d say I’m liberal, slowly moving more left.

Yes. It’s far less hostile here and I don’t fear getting downvoted to hell for asking a question.

For one year, my parents put me in a christian school. I learned how evolution was wrong in practically every “science” class.