[Varmint Al]

Two Meter Ham Radio Keyboard to Keyboard with mail box capability. Here is Central California we have a 2 meter packet radio network on 145.050 MHz. There are 10+ separate nodes that can communicate with each other. Any Ham Radio station running packet that can hear and transmit to at least one of the nodes in the network and access all the nodes and any other station that can also hear at least one of the nodes.

This communication network is NOT controlled by Facebook, Twitter, or Google in any way. Many of the nodes are autonomous and running remotely on solar power. Until the Sun is controlled by Google, the speech is free. Hi Hi.

Here is the latest network node that has been installed:

This is a picture of the 2m solar powered packet node on a peak near Livermore CA. It has good coverage over Central Calif on 145.050 MHz. The node runs a KPC-3P and the name of the node K-Net node (JOHN) and the KaNode node is (KJOHN) If you do 2m packet in CA, give it a try. We have remote control of the node. The KPC-3P has been altered to allow the reading of the battery voltage on one of the serial port pins. The solar panel is a 20 watt panel that puts out about 1 amp in bright sun. The coverage range is from West Bay Area to Nevada and from Modesto to Redding, CA. The elevation is 1900 ft with no obstructions. The cage is so the cows will not disturb the setup The panel was shaded by the truck. We had just installed the node and when the truck is moved, the panel will be in the sun. But it does shine through the fence. Since it is a lonely hilltop, birds like to set on the antenna ground plane. They were crapping on the panel. So we installed soda straws on the ground plane rods. That seemed to work. The hawks and eagles land on the cage fence top, but they can't aim at the panel from there. Hi Hi The node now has guy wires to the mast. And KF6ANX put an American flag on one of the chain link panels. That should ward off liberal birds. 73 WB6YNM

[GSWarrior]

Bump

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[ASOC]

Are you talking about the AX.25 based network?

If so, about as fast as AOL....on a bad day. That said, it is a very resilient network protocol.

After the World Series earthquake, a similar network was handling 1000’s messages/day

Thanks for the photo

[DEPcom]

Getting ready to set my Packet Station back up. Thinking about setting up a digipeater too. I have a KPC3 for my home station.

[dljordan]

OMG!!! That man is wearing a terroristic camouflage jacket.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Now do Winlink. The satellite email system.
No internet? No problem.

[GailA]

Just a hello, and a bumb, Hubby is long time Ham, but not interested in activism. He teaches the math portion of the Extra classes in the Memphis area. NY call sign as he’s from Niagara Falls area.

I’m the activist.

[Organic Panic]

Sounds like you may have a little to much ability to spread dangerous wrong think. The FCC will be paying a visit soon.

[Hostage]

Now just add an anti-jam frequency hopping app and you will have military grade capability.

[CodeToad]

Very nice!

I’m an Extra class holder and decided to dive back into ham radio as I see the other forms of communications easily disrupted. I just bought an IC-7300 radio to augment my total radio setup.

[Rebelbase]

When the SHTF and Fedgov begins the purge the repeaters will be knocked to the ground.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

That’s really cool! I had no idea. Might have to give it a go!

[AFreeBird]

How long before the commies make you take it down, or take it down for you?

[Darth Mall]

Bump for later

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

While I have a General class amateur radio license and a fair amount of equipment, I decided to buy a Garmin Explorer+, which has the ability to send and receive Short Message Service (SMS) texts and emails via the Iridium satellite constellation.

Iridium is a “switching in the sky” network, so your message will travel all around the world (sideways from sat to sat) until it can find an open earth link to the internet or cell net.

The chargeable hand-held device costs about $400 and the subscription for 10 messages per month is about $144 per year. Extra text messages are $0.50 each. It also can send messages from one Explorer+ to another without entering the internet or cell net.

All Iridium satellites are in polar orbit and, if we have an EMP nuke blast over the USA, the satellites over the USA at the time will be fried, but there is a fresh set coming over a few minutes later.

Iridium went bankrupt years ago and our government stepped in and helped them get back on their feet. It must be a good system that serves a critical role.

[RetiredArmy]

When I was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, which actually more of the post is in Tennessee than Kentucky, but the post HQ and post office are on the KY side, so it is Ft Campbell, KY. But, anyway, I lived on the Tennessee side, just outside Clarksville, TN, and my landlord lived in the main house up in front of me, where he had a grocery store and laundry mat. He was a massive ham radio operator. He had a huge ham set up. He had a bedroom completely full of equipment. He was able to talk to people around the world. He spoke regularly with a guy in Australia. He talked to people in Europe. He spoke of course to folks all around the nation. He stayed up nearly all night talking to people on the ham radio. Guy had been at it for decades, back as far as he could remember, he was a hammer.

[Robert357]

Ham bump

[jimjohn]

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