Comment on Ham radio operators trying to help connect families after Helene
K0STK@lemmy.radio 4 days ago
As fas as the mainstream media (M5M) are concerned, ham radio doesn’t exist. All I’ve heard about are heroic efforts to distribute Starlink terminals.
As past FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, said in Ham Radio Now Emcomm Extra #8, when an incident occurs “they just want their email to work.”
invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 days ago
The star links sucked anyways. Can really only handle like 100 connections before they overheat and they put them all on 192.168.0.0/24 address space so when you have 500+ people trying to connect it just straight up didn’t work.
Luckily switching to 10.0.1.0/16 is easy, but most of the people they were handed out to didn’t know that. Meanwhile HAM radio just works.
k0stk@mastodon.radio 2 days ago
@invalidusernamelol @K0STK@lemmy.radio You're making the typical hammy claim of technical superiority which completely ignores reality.