And the HF guys are nuts, some of those antennas take up a whole yard and signal depends on space weather and shit

It was pretty cool learning about the history of it though. Basically a bunch of nerds slapping shit together in their sheds and seeing what worked. Supposedly ham was a slur used by professional radio and telegraph operators

Yep, the original tech rebels

ironic considering they're all about rules now

Kinda....

It's really only more about keeping the idiots away

Honestly you could make up a callsign and nobody would really know if you pretended right

My friend told me a story about when his friend was piss drunk fucking with a ham radio getting on the police frequencies yelling whiskey jack!! Officer down!! And some volunteer firefighters beat his ass lmao

Yeah, that was a lie

Good story though you should have heard it

Ham frequencies and police frequencies aren't the same and especially these days the police don't use standard UHF

It’s fun being a volunteer firefighter til you gotta get up like 18 times cause some meth head wants to call and then refuse treatment when you get there

I mean he's old as dirt it could have been 30 years ago for all i know

Police started moving to trunked systems in the 90's, and by 2001 were mostly all moved over.

@TheClassyRandom oof, right

Our chief basically said fuck em no point in going if they’re gonna keep refusing treatment

We have mostly dope heads around here, give them narc an and they just wanna act like they are fine

So far we haven’t had to use narcan

I'm on the east coast in the hotbed of it

In rural America dopeheads everywhere.

Louisiana here

These commie idiots give them places to shoot up around here

Yeah I saw that. I was like the hell is going on over there.

They get to have fun. I'm jealous I respect myself too much to join in

Commiefornia is the first place we’re gonna have to take back honestly

Break legs and shit just to get morphine and oxys prescribed here

It’s ridiculous

Just load the fault lines with tactical nukes and send them on their way

Well that’s another question but how are we gonna get tac nukes and it’s almost time to go frogging 🤤

Anyone know anything about using CHIRP or other alternatives to conventional localized internet data networks? Does it have a limited range, do I need a license? I currently still use flashdrives as part of a sneaker network, but it's a hassle. I don't trust VPNs or TOR, it's all shady and never 100% secure

I thought TOR was pretty solid as long as you don’t log into stuff or have it full screen. Apparently that’s how they got DPR

Im running Surfshark VPN, would also like to know

The problem with TOR as far as I know is that you have to connect to a node which could be compromised. I have heard that using a VPN plus TOR helps.

But the vpn owner can track you

From my understanding I’m no expert

Safest computer is one buried in 12ft of concrete
T. Comsec guy

Someone will have your data unless you have your own end to end encryption. End of the day it's all about who you trust to have it, and anything with a signal or on a public net can be intercepted.

Been reading the beginner guide to radio and holy fuck is it a lot of shit

@yeetasaurus - Comms is pretty tech heavy stuff. Think OG Nerds.

I can see that. But I'm interested so far so I'm gonna keep reading when I get off of work

Tacomas with 300W power inverters
MilSurp brick satcomms with hand radios
1990s ideapads running CHIRP
Etrex Garmins on wrist straps