Whoever is putting them up either has an FCC license and permission from the landowner (unless maybe they’are all on public land?) Each node looks to have a value of several hundred to several thousand dollars and that means there’s nearly zero chance a bunch of hams or other hobbyists are putting that kind of coin out of their own pockets knowing there’s a high probability they’ll be confiscated.
Pirate radio operators build $50 transmitters (aka the “grenade”) that they can afford to walk away from if someone finds it.
Pinging William of barsoom to bigbob’s post:
bigbob wrote:
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Whoever is putting them up either has an FCC license and permission from the landowner (unless maybe they’are all on public land?) Each node looks to have a value of several hundred to several thousand dollars and that means there’s nearly zero chance a bunch of hams or other hobbyists are putting that kind of coin out of their own pockets knowing there’s a high probability they’ll be confiscated.
Pirate radio operators build $50 transmitters (aka the “grenade”) that they can afford to walk away from if someone finds it.
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