Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%).
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@mattblaze proudly one of the 0.07%
@paul It's almost exactly as likely to be a licensed ham in DC as it is to be a member of congress.
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@paul It's almost exactly as likely to be a licensed ham in DC as it is to be a member of congress.
I wonder how our approval ratings compare -- I bet we win on criminal convictions though
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Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%).
Utah is the nerdiest (about 0.6%)
@mattblaze Utah is the nerdiest, in a prepper sort of way. Probably also leads the nation in sales of large containers of freeze-dried foods.
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@mattblaze Utah is the nerdiest, in a prepper sort of way. Probably also leads the nation in sales of large containers of freeze-dried foods.
I was thinking that too.
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Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%).
Utah is the nerdiest (about 0.6%)
@mattblaze interesting. Was the per capita number based on each state?
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I was thinking that too.
@Eka_FOOF_A @kajord @mattblaze
How are you supposed to put up an 80-meter dipole in DC? You'd have to be richer than God to have that much available space.
Also, though, you may have proven that ham does not correlate well with nerd.
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@Eka_FOOF_A @kajord @mattblaze
How are you supposed to put up an 80-meter dipole in DC? You'd have to be richer than God to have that much available space.
Also, though, you may have proven that ham does not correlate well with nerd.
@abhayakara @Eka_FOOF_A @kajord Hams are nerds. Just own it already.
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@Eka_FOOF_A @kajord @mattblaze
How are you supposed to put up an 80-meter dipole in DC? You'd have to be richer than God to have that much available space.
Also, though, you may have proven that ham does not correlate well with nerd.
@abhayakara @kajord @mattblaze
Half and quarter wave antennas work. -
@abhayakara @Eka_FOOF_A @kajord Hams are nerds. Just own it already.
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@abhayakara @kajord @mattblaze
Half and quarter wave antennas work.@Eka_FOOF_A @kajord @mattblaze
Of course—nobody puts up a full-wave 80 meter antenna! But even a quarter wave inverted vee is pretty big—you need some very patient neighbors if you're going to do that in DC.
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Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%).
Utah is the nerdiest (about 0.6%)
@mattblaze I got my first ham ticket in DC! also my first exposure to an American hackerspace at HacDC.
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Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%).
Utah is the nerdiest (about 0.6%)
Source: I divided the ARRL state-by-state license statistics (https://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts) by state populations (from Wikipedia). Then after it became tedious to do it for every state, I noticed someone else had done the math for this a few years ago (https://michiganonedmrtech.net/list-of-us-states-by-ham-radio-licenses-per-capita/)
Nerds are everywhere, but not uniformly distributed.
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Source: I divided the ARRL state-by-state license statistics (https://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts) by state populations (from Wikipedia). Then after it became tedious to do it for every state, I noticed someone else had done the math for this a few years ago (https://michiganonedmrtech.net/list-of-us-states-by-ham-radio-licenses-per-capita/)
Nerds are everywhere, but not uniformly distributed.
@mattblaze interesting, normalizing or somehow accounting for age might be informative
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@mattblaze interesting, normalizing or somehow accounting for age might be informative
@godber There's nothing normal about either amateur radio or DC.
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@godber There's nothing normal about either amateur radio or DC.
@mattblaze haha
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Source: I divided the ARRL state-by-state license statistics (https://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts) by state populations (from Wikipedia). Then after it became tedious to do it for every state, I noticed someone else had done the math for this a few years ago (https://michiganonedmrtech.net/list-of-us-states-by-ham-radio-licenses-per-capita/)
Nerds are everywhere, but not uniformly distributed.
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Source: I divided the ARRL state-by-state license statistics (https://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts) by state populations (from Wikipedia). Then after it became tedious to do it for every state, I noticed someone else had done the math for this a few years ago (https://michiganonedmrtech.net/list-of-us-states-by-ham-radio-licenses-per-capita/)
Nerds are everywhere, but not uniformly distributed.
@mattblaze going for mine next month
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