Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
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Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
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Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#2Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#3Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
And before APRS we had packet radio[1]. Around 1992/3 I remember going to Boy scout camp at ten mile river and a scoutmaster from another troop had a packet radio setup connected to a luggable PC in one of the buildings. I dont remember what it was for but the idea of wireless digital communications was exciting. Now its everywhere.
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#4Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
It's safe only because nobody cares enough about ham radio to bother skimming anything.
I've been pushing for encryption for years but just posting this well get a bunch of elmers posting upset replies.
It's frustrating constantly being under the thumb of a generation that will not yield to progress
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#5Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
Unfortunately the FCC's rules around the Ham bands and digital modes ends up restricting a lot of potential for advancement and experimentation.
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#6Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
Unfortunately the FCC's rules around the Ham bands and digital modes ends up restricting a lot of potential for advancement and experimentation.
That and anyone using this would need a ham radio license
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#7Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
It's safe only because nobody cares enough about ham radio to bother skimming anything. I've been pushing for encryption for years but just posting this well get a bunch of elmers posting upset replies. It's frustrating constantly being under the thumb of a generation that will not yield to progress
How would encryption work?
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the FCC's rules around the Ham bands and digital modes ends up restricting a lot of potential for advancement and experimentation.
That and anyone using this would need a ham radio license
IMO that's a great way to set up a sandbox: it has built in crowd control and a mechanism to keep out flagrant abuse.
Yeah, it doesn't scale to the moon, but that's the whole point: it's a proving ground, not a moon rocket.
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#9Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
It's safe only because nobody cares enough about ham radio to bother skimming anything. I've been pushing for encryption for years but just posting this well get a bunch of elmers posting upset replies. It's frustrating constantly being under the thumb of a generation that will not yield to progress
FCC rules won't allow encryption. I'm not sure why the rules were made originally.
Re: Hacking Ham Radio for Texting
#10Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
It's safe only because nobody cares enough about ham radio to bother skimming anything. I've been pushing for encryption for years but just posting this well get a bunch of elmers posting upset replies. It's frustrating constantly being under the thumb of a generation that will not yield to progress
I am hoping they explained why.
Most people who complain about the encryption regulation just completely disregard the reason for encryption in the first place (ie, all other regulations become unenforceable if encryption is allowed).