Do you have a credible source that’s not YouTube?

According to this source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2021L00617/latest/text

460 – 470
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MOBILE 286AA
Meteorological–satellite (space-to-Earth)
287 289 AUS98

286AA The frequency band 450–470 MHz is identified for use by administrations wishing to implement International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) — see Resolution 224 (Rev.WRC-19). This identification does not preclude the use of this frequency band by any application of the services to which it is allocated and does not establish priority in the Radio Regulations. (WRC-19)

287 Use of the frequency bands 457.5125–457.5875 MHz and 467.5125–467.5875 MHz by the maritime mobile service is limited to on-board communication stations. The characteristics of the equipment and the channelling arrangement shall be in accordance with Recommendation ITU‑R M.1174‑4. The use of these frequency bands in territorial waters is subject to the national regulations of the administration concerned. (WRC-19)

289 Earth exploration–satellite service applications, other than the meteorological–satellite service, may also be used in the bands 460–470 MHz and 1 690–1 710 MHz for space-to-Earth transmissions subject to not causing harmful interference to stations operating in accordance with the Table.

AUS98 The harmonised frequency ranges in the 400 MHz band are used for national security, law enforcement, and first and second responder agencies. These agencies include police, fire, ambulance, and emergency rescue. These agencies are normally consulted about use of this spectrum for government purposes via the Commonwealth, State and Territory representative arrangements established by the National Coordinating Committee for Government Radiocommunications[1]. The harmonised band comprises the following frequency ranges:

• 403–403.98125 MHz,
• 405.01875–406 MHz,
• 408.64375–410.54375 MHz,
• 412.46875–413.43125 MHz,
• 414.46875–415.44375 MHz,
• 418.09375–430 MHz,
• 457.50625–459.9875 MHz,
• 467.50625–469.9875 MHz.

Welcome to the community!

Apparently the petition went up in November 2025 and has a year to get enough signatures. Last I saw it was near to the halfway point of acceptance.

I came across it because I saw a post announcing that Inkscape was supporting it.

https://inkscape.org/news/2026/05/13/inkscape-supports-german-petition-to-recognize-ope/

No doubt the threat of a Stripe ban on Kickstarter is predicated on the expected ban on Stripe by MasterCard and or Visa.

In other words, online censorship is being controlled by two credit card companies.

We really need more payment processors, preferably not based in the USA.

Basically two choices:

1. Find a project you’re interested in and make a contribution. Many projects tag certain issues with something like “Good First Issue” as a way of lowering barriers to entry. Other things are updating documentation, fixing typos, then you can branch out into patches and pull requests.
2. Make your own FOSS project.

I love that in the middle of that story is a piece of software I’m learning to use, GNU Radio.

This episode about Palantir is an episode of an ABC TV program called “If you’re listening” by Matt Bevan.

https://youtu.be/PpEg0XIeFtA

I faced pretty much the exact same choice, except I was given four of them, each with 8 GB of RAM.

Unfortunately they were two different hardware revisions, so the most I could achieve was two servers with 16 GB each.

They sound like a Jet taking off when powered up and the BIOS doesn’t support lower fan speeds.

Instead after months of deliberation I decided to go with a SFF Lenovo, 32 GB, 2 x 1 TB NVME, Ryzen 7, and bought this:

https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/lenovo-ideacentre-ryzen-7-32gb-2tb-desktop-lenic00aau

It’s whisper quiet and running Proxmox.

To get VM video passthrough to work I installed an extra video card, though, you could install a desktop on the host OS instead if you prefer.

The video card I used to fit inside is this:

https://www.msy.com.au/product/msi-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-low-profile-oc-graphics-card-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-lp-oc-73092

What’s next, cutting off cyclists because they’re not really road users?

Cents

Here’s what fuel costs in Western Australia, changes daily, next day prices are published at 06:30 UTC (14:30 local time).

https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/

That’s a whole lot better than your cat gagging whilst looking you in the eye.

5 Watt is plenty to be heard. A more important question is, when are you trying to make contact?

I don’t know your experience level, so make sure that you’re doing this when the band is noisy, not when it’s quiet, especially on 40m.

Also make sure that you are aware of solar storms and geomagnetic disturbances, but if you can hear others, that’s a great start.

Think of making contact as flyfishing, it takes patience and practice!

Good luck.

If every jurisdiction fined them like that … they’d cease to be a going concern … seems like a win win proposition.

Not sure what you mean. When I click the link on my post, it goes to where I intended. Note that I removed an errant period at the end of the URL about an hour ago.

Edit: Well this is getting weird. I tested it three times, now it goes to a redirect page that does require the period.

Edit: I think I nailed it third time around.

Thank you, fixed.

I think that it’s going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:

“Speeding. No one thinks big of you.”

It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.

In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps “The bigger the trick, the smaller the …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.

Edit: Removed stray period.

Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.

I’m sure I’m not alone in asking:

1. How do you set a SIM PIN on a modern smartphone?
2. Can it be more than four digits?
3. What’s to stop it being brute forced?

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