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For recieving the NOAA satellites I made a Double Cross Antenna (http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/DCA.pdf) and other than the leads getting corroded because I forgot to weatherproof it, it's worked great , given it's high enough off the ground and has a good view of the horizon with few trees. Plus, it's omnidirectional, so no need to build a Yagi and have to follow the satellite manually, all you'd have to do is check the frequency to keep it centred due to the doppler effect. For all intensive purposes there is no perfect antenna, just one that works better than others, hell a copper wire thrown into a tree would work, just the DCA is specifically built to the frequency that the satellites use. One thing I can highly suggest you check out no matter what antenna you get/make, is https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide. You'd be surprised how much you can pick up with your RTL-SDR. I've put all that I've recieved so far on my Google Drive here. I'm surrounded by trees where I am so they tend to be difficult to get for me.

Depending on which generation of chip, 2.4GHz (what I presume you meant) could either be great for web browsing, or the worst. A lot more goes into choosing a CPU than just the clock speed. You could probably get away with a Core 2 Duo or similar, with 4GB RAM (Though if possible go for like 6GB). It really depends on what deals you can find, maybe you could get a 1st or 2nd gen i3 for about the same as a Core 2 Duo, in that case go for that instead, that'll definitely contribute to the longevity of it being used for web browsing. Also I'd heavily recommend something like Linux Mint, Lubuntu, or even straight Debian, normal desktop Ubuntu is resource heavy.

Talking about hackintosh is against the community guidelines, we can't help you here, try http://tonymacx86.com/

If I recall, you are root in recovery mode so there’s no need to use sudo, as you already are the most privileged user on the system. For Disk Utility, you can try the terminal version of it, “diskutil”. I’ve had problems with the not enough space error, and trying to erase using diskutil had much more success. I also assume you’re using macOS Internet Recovery, because wiping the drive would remove the original recovery partition on the disk. That’s all I can suggest now, let me know how it goes and I’ll see where we can go from there

Couldn’t they also make their own USB? I linked earlier in this thread to a copy of the El Capitan installer I got from the App Store, and since their MacBook already works, why couldn’t they just make the USB themselves using it? Here’s the link for my comment on a thread from a while ago about a similar issue, I see no reason why they cannot just do what was done here. Here’s a link to the thread. And here’s the link for the 10.11 installer off my google drive. The installer is untouched, all I did was zip it up, someone can check the MD5’s if they don’t believe me

It’s no problem! Good luck with your decision, whether it be a PC or a Mac/“Mac”, and if you have any questions specific to Mac on the software side be sure to come back here for that! I can try my best to help you however I can.

We’re on a very fine line here with discussing it but for what you’re trying to do you’ll have to do some research on your parts to see if they’re compatible, I’d HEAVILY suggest checking out http://www.tonymacx86.com for those resources like the build guides, and ask the people there, we cannot discuss it on this forum. You’d definitely be able to find exactly what you’re looking for in terms of specs and known good parts.

Virtual Machines in general have an inherent performance loss (unless you use something like KVM). Possible, but with how graphics dependent macOS is, it just won’t be worth the effort.

Not on AMD/Threadripper

There’s plenty of options for music creation on the windows side, but you did mention you using an iPad already, and in that case having a Mac would make sense as you are technically in the ecosystem already. However if the apps you use on there have a Windows counterpart then you can use a PC no problem. It’s really up to your personal preference, if you want to use apps like Logic Pro X (especially if you already are/want to try that) or have previous experience with/want to try windows apps.

It possibly may not hurt to look back at these videos and revisit it with the same methods that they used in the Freesync v. GSync video. Though to be fair a CRT draws each "pixel" one at a time, so using a slow motion camera may actually yield higher results on the response time. However, you could probably have it be a full screen colour change, so that way the camera can see the "pixels" currently being scanned onto the screen and get the time for it to change that way.

That's the boot drive. You can't format the system drive while the system is running. You'll need to get a macOS install USB and format the drive from there.

Unless you downloaded it previously in the App Store, where it would show up as a "purchased" app, there's no easy way to get it. I however did get El Capitan off the App Store and have a copy of the .app straight from the Store. I put it on my Google Drive so here's that link for you and anyone else who needs the El Capitan installer Hope that works for you and anyone who comes across this thread needing it as well. (If posting links like this isn't allowed I'll remove it)

It actually does make a bootable USB for a UEFI system. I’ve done it whenever I didn’t have something like Rufus to make my Windows USBs. As far as I remember the UEFI just looks for a fat32 partition with some bootable files, which when you copy everything in the ISO it will have an EFI folder and the BIOS will see that.

@DrMacintosh Internet Recovery is just an image of the 10.7 installer (in my case), with a few extra features to do stuff like browse the Apple support pages. But it’s basically just a specialized image of the installer disc, as far as what I’ve experienced with it.