🇬🇧 I'm still searching for radio amateurs on mastodon, by the way.

🇩🇪 Ich suche übrigens noch nach Funkamateuren auf mastodon.

🇸🇪 Jag letar fortfarande efter radio amatörer på mastodon, för övrigt.

🇱🇺 Ik zoek overigens nog naar zendamateurs op mastodon.

Please retoot!

@DC7IA I don't have a license (yet), but I have a radio that I mess around with. Baofeng UV-5RA

I'm really interested in IP over HAM. Seems like a cheap-ish way to re-decentralize the web.

@teslas_moustache Don't try to replace the WWW, amateur radio isn't meant to replce something else.

@DC7IA I'm not talking about replacing it. I'm talking about building it out, e.g. to rural areas.

Internet started on phone lines, but it didn't replace phones.

Don't think there's anything wrong with receiving text and images over one section of EM spectrum over another.

@teslas_moustache No, but you should be aware that a licence is needed to access that spectrum.

@DC7IA I am aware of this.

I don't have the resources to even begin implementing this. I'm just interested conceptually.

@teslas_moustache @DC7IA FWIW, there are lost of nonprofit WISPs out there that build wireless mesh networks, and those can extend quite far.

IIRC, there is also an amateur point-to-point microwave network that spans most of Austria and extends into Bavaria, but I can't recall the name right now.