Tubular Bells, also known as the Theme from The Exorcist.

As a (legal) immigrant with a vanity plate… lmao.

I was going to suggest The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, after all, they will already have a towel.

Them: Can you perform under pressure?

Me: Mmm num ba de
Dum bum ba be
Doo buh dum ba beh beh

How are you hanging your antenna? Dipoles for 20m and lower are typically set up in an Inverted V configuration, which should work fine with the 10m mast you already have.

As someone who used to troubleshoot an extremely complex system for my day job, I can say I’ve worked my way across the entire bell curve.

The things is, if you try to parse html with a regex, you will always be able to construct valid html that will break it, no matter how complex your regex becomes.

We met on OkCupid. We were on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but she had a friend on this side, and they were comparing the “weird” profiles they were each finding. OkCupid has a “if you liked this person, you might like these more” section, and I appeared in there. She wasn’t really looking to date anyone, but she clicked, messaged me, and we clicked. I moved to the US to be with her after a two-year long distance relationship, and we’ll be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary next year.

United. Twice. They damaged my luggage both times.

I’ve only flown Delta and American since then.

That’s not a hitch, it’s a lashing, if I understand you correctly.

Python or Perl. IIRC, I’ve seen systems with a Perl install by default, but not Python.

On the internet, no one can tell you’re a duck.

It’s definitely great in theory until you inherit a codebase with no tests, poor documentation, and numerous reported bugs already live in production. Even better if it was written by people hired because they could do other things better than they could code - which looking at some of the unlabeled wiring messes we were left, isn’t saying a lot.

The problem you’re going to encounter is that any radio system capable of covering your entire area is going to need some sort of license, either individual or group. You probably can’t require your volunteers to pay the FCC $35 for a GMRS license, and ham radio requires an exam, so that’s probably out, too.

That pretty much only leaves business licenses. Yes, there is MURS, which is license free, and might work better than what I am assuming are Walmart FRS radios, but still runs the risk of communication failing when you need it.

If I was in charge of a convention, I’d talk to the company that supplies your AV equipment about who to rent business radios from. They probably have recommendations. If you don’t have an AV company, you can Google for “radio rentals West Virginia”, there’s a few options. They can help you with all the licensing, and will provide all the radio hardware. This is not going to be cheap, but will probably end up being less expensive than trying to set up your own repeater, and all the associated licensing headaches.

What region are you in?

I tried uploading a banner for a community I mod and was met by a JSON parser error message, so that’s not happening there until there have been a few more updates.

You mean you groom the heck out of it, right? That sort of coat probably matts if you look at it too hard.

Did you know that XLR is also something of a standard for interchangeable sex machine attachments?

I’m a big fan of amateur radio, specifically portable operation, and Parks on the Air.

I’ll take my radio out to a remote location, throw an antenna up into some trees, and talk to people all over the US.

Currently I need mains power, but I’m looking to buy a battery soon, and I already have some solar panels gifted from a club member.

I live in Michigan, and last time I was out, my most distant contacts were in Dallas, Texas, around 1100 miles away, while I was sitting at a picnic table at my local state park campground.