天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

About the price for the gears, just checked the latest ones from yaesu and I found I can't afford them either :(

The lens for my camera is eating my budget

Can't believe I can't buy a legal 409 public walkie talkie here in China in 2025. My friend will come to visit me soon, so I think a 409 license free radio should be useful for biking, since my friend doesn't have a ham license.

I search all major e-commerce platforms, and all the products are using the UHF band of amateur radio. And no seller mentioned the licensing stuff. So all the buyers are most likely using it illegally. The seller said the products are good for property, catering, hotels, and construction sites. No wonder I frequently hear weird conversations over the UHF band, and they never reply to me when I report my call sign.
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​​The stupid Radio Management Committee in China can't control the sellers and can only fine the weak ones, the ham. If you abuse the UHF band at the construction site, you will be just educated. Of course they never listen. If a licensed and legal ham transmits in the UHF band in certain provinces, he will be fined 5000 yuan.
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​So this is China's amateur radio?

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For those sellers, some of them are fairly popular in HAM group, like BaoFeng, QuanSheng(QUESUM), etc. This is why I never buy their products, they are polluting the ham bands by selling the product in an non-ethical way. All my gears are Yaesu (because I can't afford icom )

I hereby declare, Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf is the best anime of 2024, and might be the best anime of the recent decade.

After being betrayed by kyoto anime (Sound! Euphonium 3rd season), I was constantly being afraid of the new animes: they look appealing, but the storylines are bad or not performing well. I can't imagine I cannot even trust kyoto anime in recent years, that's how bad the anime circles being recently.

But for the Spice and Wolf, I'm super excited about the 2024 version. I start reading the novels after watching the 2008 version, and now when I'm watching the new version, I can recall the details from the novel, and the novel is represented in anime, a much more vivid and lovely form.

Oh my god I'm so excited by the 2024 version. Now I have to patiently wait for the bt download to finish.

Bought a relatively cheap equatorial earlier this month because I didn’t want to spend too much on astronomical photography. I was also waiting to buy a 180-600 to take some bird photos. But since then, Kunming is always cloudy at night during the weekends, so I went to skygems to rent a remote telescope. The equipment seems to be FSQ 106 + Moravian C3 6100. I checked ebay and found that this set is very expensive :(

Last night, the weather forecast said it would be cloud-free, so I ran out to take pictures of the stars. However, the clouds suddenly came up at 1 a.m. The weather forecast is really inaccurate... And the light pollution is very serious. I have to shrink down to F8 when exposing for 240 seconds, otherwise the photos will be all white, not to mention that I can’t find anything interesting. M42 can’t be seen at all... In the end, I took a picture of alpha CMi. The equipment is Nikon Z502, and the kit lens is DX 50-250.

Maybe I shouldn't buy the equatorial, renting from a remote location seems better, in terms of both price and light pollution.

I hate light pollution :(

I also take a pill of Loratadine, which should stop the allergy symptoms. But it looks like it's not working, so my coughing might not be cause by dust allergy.

@freemo No? As far as I know, neither I nor my families have asthema before... Initially the symptoms start with my nose and throat, which feels like a common cold or something. I did have antibody tests for covid, flu a, flu b and mp, but all of them are negative. Yesterday I went to the hospital mentioning the intensive coughing during the night. The doctor gives the nebulizer as a precaution, along with Singulair.

Wait... no... 5 minutes later and my throat wants to kill me again. My throat is still coughing, but I just want to sleep. It has been 4 continuous days that every night I was waking up multiple (>=4) times by the stupid coughing. I WANT TO SLEEEEEEEP!!!

wait... I might know why I'm coughing endlessly during the night. I just vacuumed my bed and all the related things. Now I'm lying on my bed, and I'm coughing less intensive.