Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass

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• Tmask@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re telling me that this radio was made out of a Glazed Ham?

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  • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can confirm; I glazed the ham.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would lo e fo get into radio chat hobby. But I don’t know.anything about it so i just listen to radio recordings of ppl chating on YT

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  • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you can listen in world wide with web SDR rx-tx.info/map-sdr-points

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    • sunshine@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      thank

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can listen live without a license. Baofeng is the standard entry-level radio and they are OK for listening and super cheap. They are decent for transmitting low power local, but if you do want to transmit the Baofeng is pretty shitty. I have a Yaesu FT5D that was damn cheap for how well it performs and it’s in the HandiTalk format so I can carry it around. I can also slot it right into a real antenna in my shack and that’s where it really shines.

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  • onyxjet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or build this fun thing my dad once showed me. You can turn a phone into a HAM receiver. (I dont remember if it could transmit too, if it does you would need a license for that)

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• atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is just something really amazing about being able to communicate directly between two points on the planet by bouncing EM waves off layers of the atmosphere. Like, imagine two people hundreds of miles apart are shining flashlights (or torches, if you prefer) at the distant sky, just above the horizon, and seeing the sky glow from each other’s beams signaling each other. At the right frequencies and with the right conditions, certain atmospheric layer boundaries become reflective, like the boundary between air and water, so imagine that distant sky looks a little glossy up there, like water’s surface reflecting your beam.

  But then run that light source through a machine that does that flickering signal fast enough to encode your voice in the pattern of flickering that’s glowing in the sky over someone else’s horizon.

  That’s pretty closely analogous to what amateur (“ham”) radio operators are doing when they play with the HF range of the radio spectrum. The electronics are less sophisticated than cell phones, but our usual gadgets rely on many other devices to relay info across the Internet (which is also amazing, in a different way). Ham radio, on the other hand, is like a fancy version of talking through two cans on a string, sometimes up to thousands of miles apart, but using fast flash lights instead of string and cans.

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  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I absolutely love independent technology like this 👍

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mostly they talk about their health problems.

  I write this with affection. Love chatting.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I just tuned in on a web listener. The first conversation I heard was about a guy in Gainesville Florida going to a picnic tomorrow.

    Mostly they talk about their health problems.

    The second conversation where two guys talking about the health problems of one of the women in his life. “She’s going to need an epidural!”

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When you’re in chronic pain and that actually solves the problem, my goddess it’s sweet relief. It feels like you are you again. Had one for shoulder pain the other year.

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• uberfreeza@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve had my ham radio license for sixish years now? Still don’t own a radio though.

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• seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just trading one scroll wheel for another. “Surely the next channel won’t be another crazy preacher.” (It was).

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pass.

  I’m already on meshtastic following people testing their latest firmware update and that’s about 95% of the traffic

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  • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    like the concept of meshtastic and lora, i just the the frequencys they use are shit, like what u gona real with 900mhz if it aint line of sight

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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For real? I got my GMRS license a few years ago, and sometimes I just put a radio on scan to see which construction companies are violating FCC regs. Haven’t found a rando to talk to yet, but the range is pretty small. I’ve been mulling over getting my HAM license and Baofeng to dick around with.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cause I live near an idiot who floods the air waves with spam.

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  • Grostleton@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hot n Spicy or Teriyaki?

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …or you could just use a PC with a secure operating system (Linux) and use a secure voice chat (Matrix) to achieve the same result without needing a loicense.

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  • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A analog FM radio has no backdoors, and the 11m Band is loicense free

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