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How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 1 month ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's actually pretty impressive if they can just feed a random wire directly into it and get it to transmit.

[โ€“] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its nominally called a 'random wire antenna' but the caveat is that it needs a tuner and if the wire length is too close to a length that makes it naturally resonate without a tuner, the antenna will not work.