Oddbean new post about login | logout Poll: Ham Radio & Ham Radio content on Nostr 1. Do you have a ham radio license? 2. If No, Are you interested in getting a ham radio licensee? If Yes, are you interested in upgrading your ham radio license or are you happy where you are? 3. What kind of radio content are you interested in seeing more of on Nostr? 4. Have you tried any LoRa mesh projects? 5. What would be an interesting ham radio project to you? 6. Any other comments?
Too many questions 😂 1. No 2. Yes 3. Any 4. No 5. Nostr 6. Halp!
You may be interested in this: https://github.com/geoffwhittington/meshtastic-bridge
W7JWF Want my general and am studying slowly All Ham content is good. Anything is better than nothing and useful for someone No LoRa yet I really like sstv from the ISS and want a better antenna for longer range reception of signals We have a pretty solid repeater network locally and I can get coverage in places my cellphone has nothing so I have been really happy to have my license. I grew up around Ham in the 90s with my grandfather and studied hard then but never took the test. When I went to study for it 30 years later it all was right there and took me little time to get to test level.
1. No 2. No 3. LoRa, meshtastic and LoRaWAN. 4. Sort of. I used a LoStik to transmit simulated temperature, pressure, humidity and CO2 levels to a LoRaWAN gateway 5. None; I'm interested in unlicensed bands 6. I'd be interested in learning more about how to build my own Meshtastic-compatible device. Both a standalone pager and one yat can pair with a mobile device. From design, to implementation to flashing firmware.
How to build packet radios using small, off the shelf devices, and some ingenuity. thus bypassing the stodgy, unimaginative, inflexible old HAMs that need everything to stay as it was.
Its bizarre to me hams are willing to widely adopt patented technology like the audio codec for DMR rather than design one around unrestrained processes
The official software program that does decoding and encoding of audio may or may not be floating around on the internet. I am not going to get bent out of shape if I can use existing equipment and do everything I want with it.
Its the apple v.s. linux mentality. I have a guttoral aversion to the apple model.
who knows.. perhaps your shape could use some bending.
Lololol 🤣
1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Builds of equipment, operation. 4. No 5. Creating a new digital encoding 6. No
1. Yes 3. Net announcements 4. No 5. We need independent high speed data infrastructure. probably just microwave linking. 6. Ham Radio does not have enough throughput to meaningfully spread information. It is only useful if to do something that was planned beforehand through another medium.
It would be interesting to see if things like #LoRa #Messtastic could be incorporated into the #Bitcoin network. Broadcasting transactions, and maybe syncing nodes..🧡😊
transactions sure but syncing nodes is much more demanding
https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ is excellent software for an ever changing large network with no coordinator
Have you considered the potential of use something like Zerosync to compress the data first? There are tradeoffs involved, it could be used to sync nodes up. https://youtu.be/rvOrbejf6_A
This is absolutely true. Good idea. However, if this network is to be useful for an extended time away from other networks it needs to support more complex tasks like downloading packages and OS images. These things could be implemented over LoRA however it makes it difficult to access documentation for the thing you just downloaded and are trying to use, etc. I think reaching this level of compression is possible eventually but we are not there yet for every service and use case.
Using Nostr through LoRA would be a terrible user experience. Many have tried to do SSH over LoRA, takes forever. You could make it faster by removing IP headers in a custom protocol and not encrypting but then everybody knows what posts you are retrieving. and no images or videos, ever. I learn a lot from visual content on here and would not want to give it up!
1. No 2. Maybe 3. Haven’t seen anyone interested in HAM for a long time, why the sudden interest and what’s the tie in to Nostr? 4. No 5. Not sure. Started working in am fm radio just as we didn’t need operating licenses anymore (as staff). So I’m just a nerd. 6. Are there HAM classes online? Doesn’t seem to be on near me.
1. No, but I have a GMRS license 2. Maybe next year, too many projects, not enough fiat 3. MOAR any radio content 4. No, but it’s on the long list of projects 5. I’m interested in radios connecting to the internet and becoming global, but I’m sure there’s already plenty of information on that. Either way, I’m not there yet. 6. Happy to see radio talk on Nostr, followed.
1. No. 2. Yes. Would love to.
What if you could transmit a bitcoin transaction over ham radio.
Thanks for your posts.🙏😃💜😆👍💯 1) No. 2) Maybe, but I have practical and ideological concerns about licensing. 3) Tech to democratize the internet at all levels. The m17 project looks awesome. 4) No, but def on my list. 5) Radio relays for nostr content. 6) I'm concerned about privacy prohibitions that come with licensing. Not up on current "laws," but my understanding has been that encrypted comm is prohibited...
1. Yes 2. I’m licensed as Extra in the USA 3. General happenings in the industry. 4. No, but I might be interested 5. Data comms maybe Bitcoin related if we could pull that off legally. 6. I’d be happy with more amateur radio news and current happenings.