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By: hank

From "20 Ways to Circumvent the Egyptians Governments' Internet Block" 04] #hamradio frequencies for #egypt http://slink.us?ls PLEASE SPREAD IRC: http://slink.us?lt 05] Ham Radio Software software for...

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By: jrishel

the events in Egypt and the the fact that there is a bill in the US hoping to enact a similar internet kill switch makes me want to go get my ham license.

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By: sonascope

The point about engineers is apt, and may explain some of it. The area where I live is completely surrounded by various skunkworks, like NSA, Fort Meade, APL, Aberdeen, Fort Detrick, the Naval Research...

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By: ~Sushma~

@ Sonascope I remember those number stations on my fancy-schmancy shortwave/longwave radio, pondering with deep intensity for the meaning and rationale of this mystery. Every once in a while I'd get on...

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By: drhydro

I was first licensed in my teens, had a lot of fun - mobile on 2 meters with a WW2 aircraft transceiver (SCR-522, anyone?) but kinda let it go after college. Got interested again when I found that I...

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By: Sidhedevil

I have noticed time and time again that engineers are often (but of course not exclusively) the most nutty of the nutcases when it comes to conservativism, wacky conspiracy theories, or quack science....

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By: dylanjames

I've dusted off my soldering station and am in the midst of building my first SDR receiver, the RxTx Ensemble II. It's a monster-feat of a kit (I'm backtracking already - never had to do that before),...

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By: grajohnt

What sonascope said, and also noting the earlier comment: In short, they sucked at radio. Honestly, they had no idea that you even had to test the stuff. Yet, one of our stars was an MIT PhD EE. He and...

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By: clavdivs

great read/good writing sonascope.

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By: HLD

marienbad, you if you read to the third and later pages of the qrz thread you linked to, you see somespiritedrebuttals to the knuckle-dragger trolling.

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By: sonascope

I've been studying to get my ham ticket. I call it "ham ticket" because that's what my father called it, and I'm looking to get mine because I found that I could reclaim his old call sign. It's...

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By: Devonian

It's interesting that ODFM does get quite close to the Shannon limit, which is roughly the information theory equivalent of the speed of light. It defines how much information you can get through a...

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By: FauxScot

@ryanars.... How many of them do you think understand OFDM and MIMO, or even direct sequence spread spectrum works? Uh... that would be me, but I do agree... they are mostly rag chewers shooting the...

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By: marienbad

"Here" is a depressing thread on QRZ about what the role (or lack of a role) of ham radio should be in the Egypt protests." posted by ChrisHartley at 10:26 PM jeez, depressing is not the word for it....

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By: ryanrs

Spectrum is a finite shared resource; the bit bucket is not.

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By: Cranberry

They talk instead of type. I will grant you that Mefites don't tear up the TV or the neighbors' clock radios like hams and CBers running boots. Be grateful that they stay on radio; if they got...

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By: ryanrs

no music I'm not sure music is specifically forbidden. It's broadcasting that's against the rules.

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By: ryanrs

Those of us who KNOW how radio works Eh, those old ragchewers don't understand modern radio any better than the IT guys. How many of them do you think understand OFDM and MIMO, or even direct sequence...

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By: ryanrs

Oh god, I never considered the teabagger contingent. I found ham radio pretty insufferable in the mid-90s. I can't imagine how god-awful it must be now. I got a license on a lark at 14, just because I...

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By: madajb

Reading this makes me glad the repeaters around here are so...normal. Maybe it's just the area, but we really don't get a bunch of cranky old men rants, at least not on the times I've been listening.

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By: clavdivs

Burl Ives and Marlon Brando were HAM operators The Woz also

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By: rmd1023

curious nu: for music, there's always setting up a microbroadcasting station. Years ago, when streaming audio over the network wasn't really a thing yet, a coworker had a micropower station set up so...

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By: tustinrick

I was abused by ham radio as a child. My advice is Get Over It!

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By: curious nu

I've been wanting to get my first license for a few years now, slowly puttering through an ARRL book; the recent Egypt stuff got me to study some more (there are some very convenient iOS practice test...

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By: 1000monkeys

Lance Bass is a ham? Wow, I don't know why but that really surprises me. I'm just glad that Canada did away with (for the most part) the CW requirement. Hams in the US thought it would turn the bands...

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By: FauxScot

Ham radio was the internet of much of the 1900's. Free, long distance communication with the world, relatively unhindered by the governments/industry. Like Omegle... random chats with strangers. Those...

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By: Emanuel

kiltedtaco: there's some really cheep but quite good equipment coming from China now. I got this dual-band Wouxun HT for about $100, and it's great.

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By: George_Spiggott

or spend thousands of dollars on gadgets that look like a Hollywood set dresser's wet dream I don't even know exactly what that does and I need it so very badly.

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By: bottlebrushtree

I come in an out of the hobby. Living in San Francisco earthquake country I try to keep up with my skills and help others in the local NERT teams learn how to use their radios. I'm also really...

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By: kiltedtaco

Thanks for the recommendation ChrisHartley, I'll check it out.

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By: symbioid

timsteil: "Personally, I'm holding out for Bacon radio" That's what they call ham radio in Canada.

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By: hattifattener

Is it true the FCC won't allow ham radio to connect to the internet? Not so much any more, but it has been a problem. There are two big restrictions on what you can use ham bands for: no commercial...

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By: ChrisHartley

You can carry TCP/IP over ham radio using the AX.25 protocol. The Linux kernel has robust support built in. The FCC's problem is that you can't transmit encrypted data over the ham bands (no HTTPS or...

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By: Nelson

APRS is really neat; it lets you wireless upload data packets to the Internet from anywhere. It's a lot like old school Fidonet or Usenet, only via amateur radio bands. Mostly it's used for location...

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By: clavdivs

We should remind them of this more often.

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By: hank

http://www.google.com/search?q=ham+radio+internet N6VSB

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By: AndrewKemendo

I worked for a guy long ago who was a ham radio nut (NU5K), I only remember his call sign because it was pretty much everywhere and was most of what he talked about. Ham radio is excellent if there are...

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By: tommasz

There a bunch of cranky old men on my local repeaters. Luckily, they're getting fewer and fewer as the years go by.

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By: Monochrome

Is it true the FCC won't allow ham radio to connect to the internet? Because I have always thought that would be a nifty, disaster-resistant ISP.

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By: wuwei

The reactionary old Ham radio heads are the survivors of the golden era of US prosperity. Most of their parents were probably broke dirt farmers. The old buffers managed to earn plenty of money during...

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By: ChrisHartley

kiltedtaco - get the book Basic Radio by Joel Hallas ASAP. I know EXACTLY what you mean about radio theory being a black box where they jump from V=IR to superhet. That was the book that made it click...

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By: Devonian

Yes, it was a reaction to some of the ham radio comments in the recent threads. I started in radio when I was around 15 and one of the youngest on the air. Sometimes, 30 years later, it seems like I...

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By: straw

I'm licensed, as is my wife. We got our licenses so we could help support local bicycle rides. I've used mine once, on someone else's gear, and my radio sits unused and uninstalled. The local HAM folks...

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By: kiltedtaco

Personally, I'd be more into radio if either of two problems were solved: 1) Commercial radios are expensive. If it costs more than a video game system or a computer, for a hobby I might not even...

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By: rmd1023

Oh, cool. More nifty ham links! Thanks.

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By: hydrophonic

Fun fact for all you punk fans: SST Records took its name from Greg Ginn's previous mail-order company, Solid State Transmitters.

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By: jgaiser

I've held Ham licenses twice. KB7RHQ and N7PWF. First time I let the license lapse because lack of money for equipment and lack of real interest. The second time I left because of local Old Farts...

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By: StickyCarpet

Point is, if you get into ham radio, you can stay for free in nice people's houses in New Zealand and never have to deal with Google Maps or remember your road atlas again. That seems like a pretty...

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By: deadmessenger

The reactionary/conservative old man bent of most US hams is a huge reason why I'm no longer active. I'm not really the ham demographic to begin with (in my 30s and a political moderate), but I just...

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By: Blazecock Pileon

That was freaking cool. That was indeed freaking cool.

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