An old post from Caroline Ellison’s tumblr, since deleted.

  • @froztbyte
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    48 months ago

    hah yeah lora is fun, I actually built a lora network a few years back (end to end, incl. some v1.0~if-you-squint prototype boards during dev phase (found a decent vendor for the rollout)). also done a bit with SDR going back a fair while (been following that since it first started becoming popular around 2009? 2010?)

    this side of the world HAM is the lowest class amateur license you can get afaik, which is unfortunately a bit sucky. and yeah opsec shit

    I do want to find myself a UV-KR after what I saw recently… (yes, not a -5R, a KR)

    ton of the HAM community will actively discourage you from doing any of it because most of them are laser-focused on gear acquisition

    this made me remember some of the most annoying fucking people I ever met at wugmeets (from these, which are sadly nowhere near as big as they used to be)

    • @selfMA
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      48 months ago

      I need to do a lot more with my LoRA gear! last time I played with it, it was still frustratingly too impenetrable for my friends to pick up, but I had a lot of fun building a setup that’d work over a couple miles of obstructed terrain

      I do want to find myself a UV-KR after what I saw recently… (yes, not a -5R, a KR)

      huh, what’s cool about the KR specifically? a quick search didn’t turn anything up for me, but I’m always on the lookout for an inexpensive radio to play with. I love that I can basically hand off a Baofeng or an RTL-SDR off to a friend and they can get rolling on whatever we’re doing that needs radio

        • @selfMA
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          58 months ago

          oh dear, you might have just replaced my baofeng

          • @froztbyte
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            58 months ago

            pretty much exactly the feeling I had about mine too 😅

            • @froztbyte
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              48 months ago

              my main problem is I can’t seem to find stock locally, and I don’t feel like dealing with couriers and customs. so I guess I’ll have to wait for whoever to get some