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every time I see this thread title I think of the pickle surprise ladies chanting "hammmmmmm"
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Silver Alicorn posted:every time I see this thread title I think of the pickle surprise ladies chanting "hammmmmmm" holy poo poo I'm not the only one
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Mar 5, 2018 15:37
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that makes three of us, lmao
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Mar 5, 2018 16:03
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so someone tell me about the current state of packet radio is it still using X.25 or what
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Mar 6, 2018 08:29
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You don't need a license to use discord.
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Mar 6, 2018 15:45
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Salt Fish posted:You don't need a license to use discord. boo this man e: I don't need a license to kick your rear end either
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Mar 6, 2018 15:55
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eschaton posted:so someone tell me about the current state of packet radio you can still get 44.x block IPs if you put up a node 2m packet is dead though, they use the modulation for APRS but theres barely anything on 145.01 or whatever. winlink email systems and the sleepy rear end store and forward network sending NTS traffic (which is 90% automated congrats-on-your-license-upgrade ARRL spam) a lot of the people that were into packet are doing the 2.4g mesh thing now and it is much more interesting
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Mar 6, 2018 16:41
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jonny does anyone you do ham stuff with use airfiber? it seems absurd for how (relatively) cheap it is.
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Mar 6, 2018 16:49
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the airfiber stuff is loving sick but we haven't figured out a firmware flash to get it operating in ham bands since the local mesh got their nonprofit status we are investigating raising funds for a 24g airfiber link from a mountaintop to a denver hilltop tho, we dont even need to juice the power (part of the ham mesh thing is that we hack firmware to put things on 2.4 ghz channel "-2" which is solidly in the ham band, allowing us to use up to 1,500 watts power _plus_ antenna gain, instead of roughly 1 watt including antenna gain - but we have to not use encryption or send porn or whatever)
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Mar 6, 2018 18:03
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Jonny 290 posted:get your tech license and i absolutely will write it off for you uh okay this is cool and i just bought a house with a workshop where i could put this stuff so how do i do this
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Mar 6, 2018 18:57
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a good way to get into it for SUPER CHEAP is to go pick up one of the RTL SDR sticks on amazon https://www.amazon.com/NooElec-NESDR-SMArt-Bundle-R820T2-Based/dp/B01GDN1T4S/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1520359368&sr=8-3 this will let you listen to local cops and hams, FM broadcast, etc. short-medium range stuff. also it will cover shortwave but that tiny antenna wouldnt do much. you cant get into any unauthorized transmit trouble as it's just a receiver, there are good software apps for everything from windows to Walgreen's android tablets to run these things, and they have gone way up in quality lately
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Mar 6, 2018 19:04
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2 hams cost  fyi
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Mar 7, 2018 00:31
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Is this the new ham thread? hopefully in a week or so my LimeSDR mini will FINALLY ship, pretty excited about that.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:33
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spankmeister posted:2 hams cost is it good ham though? trick question! no ham is good.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:45
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ham is absolutely haraam
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Mar 7, 2018 01:27
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spankmeister posted:2 hams cost
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Mar 7, 2018 04:43
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I got a tech license and a ft-60r and I don't really know why anymore. On 2M there are a dozen repeaters I can access. One is active during drive time and net time, thats it (that repeater network covers ~4 million people). The rest are dead. The mesh stuff sounds cool (digital w/ RTL-SDR is why I got into it) but the two other AREDN nodes (listed on the site) are out of line of sight. Most of the packet stuff going on seems like ancient ax.25 or APRS. Eh. I should probably go to the big club in the area.
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Mar 7, 2018 06:43
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Jonny 290 posted:the airfiber stuff is loving sick but we haven't figured out a firmware flash to get it operating in ham bands they aren't related in any way at all to other ubiquiti hardware or software, a totally different engineering and dev team, good luck since they're only using signed firmware and aren't using any open sores so no gpl airmax ac stuff is also all signed, as well as anything for airmax m above 5.6.15 so you're stuck with m stuff probably. does it even use tdma or is it just 802.11 with acknowledgements disabled?
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Mar 9, 2018 18:34
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Honestly i don't have that deep of a knowledge of wireless as I used to. I just kinda flashed up the firmware and started aiming my antenna.
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Mar 9, 2018 19:00
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Jonny the SDR arrived from Amazon what next
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Mar 9, 2018 20:25
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what OS do you prefer to use
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Mar 9, 2018 20:27
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Jonny 290 posted:what OS do you prefer to use i smell a trap
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Mar 10, 2018 00:57
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a couple of my friends are taking the test so we can get newly-cheap DMR handhelds and not have to worry about cell reception at music festivals
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Mar 10, 2018 02:07
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Jonny 290 posted:what OS do you prefer to use macOS I’m hosed aren’t I
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Mar 10, 2018 02:22
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For ham software windows 95 is recommended, or windows XP if you need the more modern stuff.
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Mar 10, 2018 02:53
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buy a pentium 3 pc for your hams
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Mar 10, 2018 03:08
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Silver Alicorn posted:buy a pentium 3 pc for your hams cool. is that all you really need? that’d be cheap as gently caress. (dunno how much all of the other gear would cost tho)
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Mar 10, 2018 04:13
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there's so much loving RF in my building my headphones are picking it up
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Mar 10, 2018 04:58
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no trapeschaton posted:macOS http://gqrx.dk/download Jimmy Carter posted:a couple of my friends are taking the test so we can get newly-cheap DMR handhelds and not have to worry about cell reception at music festivals couple of DV4mini usb sticks and you can have walkie talkies that work worldwide. if youre gonna get dmr radios you might as well get hotspots President Beep posted:cool. is that all you really need? that’d be cheap as gently caress. (dunno how much all of the other gear would cost tho) to a certain extent. those SDR sticks are going to require at least like a core2duo to play nicely. you can do a lot of digital data mode stuff (keyboard chat) with a p3 and win98. and if you just want to do poo poo like rig control or serial packet radio stuff, a 286 is fine.
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Mar 10, 2018 07:10
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is there a special name for a small village that is home to a lot of radio enthusiasts?
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Mar 10, 2018 07:45
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awesome, thanks! also I guess I could set this stuff up on one of my Raspberries Pi
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Mar 10, 2018 08:56
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Penisface posted:is there a special name for a small village that is home to a lot of radio enthusiasts? hebephrenia
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Mar 10, 2018 09:03
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Penisface posted:is there a special name for a small village that is home to a lot of radio enthusiasts? point barrow, alaska
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:hebephrenia President Beep posted:point barrow, alaska no, no, no sorry I was just trying to make a hamlet pun
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Mar 10, 2018 15:44
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ah, poo poo.
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Penisface posted:no, no, no sorry I was just trying to make a hamlet pun I got it if it makes you feel better.
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President Beep posted:cool. is that all you really need? that’d be cheap as gently caress. (dunno how much all of the other gear would cost tho) well you’re gonna have trouble running Windows 95 on anything much newer
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Mar 10, 2018 16:11
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eschaton posted:awesome, thanks! http://sdr.hu/openwebrx plug an sdr stick into a pi 2 or better, install this, and open a port. boom you now have a tunable web based SDR in any browser you want anywhere.
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Mar 10, 2018 20:45
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my buddy is gonna hang out with me this weekend to see if the magnetic loop antenna he picked up can null out the cell tower antennas about 20 feet from my apartment and I'm hyped at the possibility of actually doing HF from home
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i really don’t know much about this sort of thing, but couldn’t you get in pretty deep poo poo for messing with communications transmission like that?
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