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Let's talk some HAM radio -- a new potential hobby of mine.
12/31/14 | Vanity

Posted on 12/31/2014 5:22:29 PM PST by Usagi_yo

So I've thought about ham radio as a hobby in the past. I read an article on the Government having an internet 'kill switch' but really I extrapolated that out further and think they have a 'communications kill switch'. Meaning internet and phone.

In the event that national, regional, coordination and communications goes out, and a distinctive impact on neighborhood coordination, but not so much communications (sneaker net, or short haul CB's):

What types of digital ham radio services and equipment are available to build a manned digital station -- meaning it accepts TCP/IP protocol even if it needed a protocol wrapper around it? And is maintained by a properly licensed Ham radio operator?

Any links, thoughts, experiences are welcome.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: digitalham; ham; radio
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To: dragnet2

The weather let up nicely for a day, and there was a little time to revisit information about QRP (for other readers here, communications using very little power).

Now, that’s interesting, maybe especially with PSK31! That could open up a world, so to speak, from a station that’s too far from affordable grid electricity. We’ll see what can be built for that.


121 posted on 01/05/2015 8:58:01 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

Build?

NorCal QRP kits are way cool and they work very well.

http://www.norcalqrp.org/nc2n2xx.htm


122 posted on 01/05/2015 9:05:05 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

That’s pretty neat, but it looks like their kits are all “retired.”

“Temporary out of stock
2N2/XX Transceiver
Limited Run Kit
Please note that this is a limited run kit and when they are gone, they are gone. A total of 500 kits were produced - 200 on 20-meters, 100 on 30-meters, and 200 on 40-meters.”

But thanks anyway! Maybe they’ll let me etch one of their board designs, so I won’t need to solve noise problems from scratch (because schematics alone don’t tell us where to arrange parts on boards). Existing pictorials from tested designs make it a whole lot easier to etch a good board.


123 posted on 01/06/2015 9:17:22 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: dragnet2

Some men in other countries have made some pretty good kits, too, but transceiver specs per countries’ regulations would need to be checked first (an no FCC approvals on those for use by employers and officials here).


124 posted on 01/06/2015 9:25:19 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Chickensoup
"I am not trying to be snarky. I just cannot understand why it is regulated."

Good etiquette is enforced by many for the general purpose of preventing some people from interfering with the communications of many others (honorable collective goal) and the specific purpose of keeping oneself from getting busted (individual behavioral enhancement).

;-)


125 posted on 01/06/2015 9:47:16 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

the specific purpose of keeping oneself from getting busted (individual behavioral enhancement).

______________

THAT is the part I don’t understand! Why?


126 posted on 01/06/2015 1:20:04 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

More seriously, because without enforcement, too many people would interfere with and in many cases even prevent the communications of others or use radio to otherwise violate the rights of others. Contemporary behavioral trends are already obvious to us all. And it’s common knowledge that allowing commercial interests to further influence amateur radio would be disastrous.


127 posted on 01/06/2015 3:47:06 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Chickensoup
Why does this need to be so? (re: ham radio licensing)

The primary reason for this is that the worldwide frequencies amateur radio operators use, sometimes called shortwave or high frequency (HF), are subject to international agreements for frequency allocations and operating standards. If you wish to find out more, set your search engine to "International Telecommunications Union". These frequencies are the ones amateurs use to talk all over the world, as compared to the ones used to talk locally using the previously referenced handheld radios.

128 posted on 01/08/2015 12:12:11 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Stentor
...when I started listening to Jean Shepherd...

Jean Shepherd was an amateur radio operator, too, not just an author/radio host.

129 posted on 01/08/2015 12:17:51 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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