/ham/ Amateur Radio General

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Hilarious but I decline your proposal.

Bought my first radio. All I need to program a Baofeng is the programming cable and CHIRP right?

Will probably get a nice Yaesu when I figure out what I'm doing

hamfags of the normalfag variety are the biggest bootlickers I've ever seen. Theyre allways on the lookout to turn someone in who uses radio and isnt in their secrit club.

fuck the FCC for banning encryption, how else are you supposed to run a packet radio website without rampant MITM

Boo fucking hoo, kike.

While I do think the encryption ban is stupid, that's a lame fucking reason. Nobody wants to visit your lame tiny packet website. Packet is used for BBS systems and store and forward. It's a hobby. You shouldn't be doing anything important over the radio unless it's an emergency.

I think that is a little short-sighted. People should be using radio to do interesting things, important things. It would go a long way to dispel the 'old guy club' perception.

Yep CHIRP and cable is enough.
Works fb out of the box on linux, on windows some of the chinese cables might need some older driver for the pirate chips.

Dunno about that.
More like hams don't want people shitting on their bands. Outside of that none gives a fuck more often than not. But it might vary by area and country.

All of the folks I have seen with commercial rigs have the FRS/GMRS/PMR446 channels programmed in addition to hamband stuff. People with DMR rigs used to listen to rentacops and folks like that.
Many of the hams I know frequent 49m and 27.555, not to mention satcom.
So it depends.
But yeah we'd like you not to shit on our bands, its not polite to interfere with others.

And the crypto band is unfortunate, but without that you'd likely see some abuse of the bands.
Obscuring the content is banned, authentication is not.
so SSH with no crypto on the content but with secure auth is OK according to our rules.
Once again depends on your location.

We do interesting new things, hamradio is so niche that ppl MITM:ing your packet site is way low in the priorities, at first you'd need a 2nd person to have the same gear and you and to be in range.
Which is rare for packet/data enthusiast.

btw there is also the 8ch.net/hamradio/ board, but it is quite slow.

Removing the legal bindings, is it worth doing a radio transmitter and receievers and then using them as walkie talkie?
Of course, encryption is mandatory, probably with a hardcoded key.

Depends on what you consider being "worth it".
Some friends of mine are working on 2.4GHz "walkie talkies" with AES256 stream cipher and speex. tbh codec2 might be a better bet.
Mostly for the fun of it.

Micro satellites in the 1.5GHz range. It's what Outernet does.

It would be useful in a doomsday or happening scenario (which might never happen).

2.4GHz is a pain in the fucking ass, why would you ever try to use that? Wifi uses it, microwaves use it, there's noise EVERYWHERE on that freqnency. They can't pick literally any other frequency to use?

Outernet buys bandwidth from Inmarsat.
It's broadcast from geo from a bus sized 100million satellite.
They got over their cubesat idea pretty fast when they realized what linkbudget was and that the satellite would likely not stay up for even a year.

Doomsday scenario I'd rather have encrypted VHF than 2.4GHz, like says it's shared with everything and has low range.

And in all, actually using the gear and being competent with it means more than the technology used.
One of the reasons why preppers with widebanded HF rigs will just burn the finals in them. It does not matter if there is an FCC or not, knowing how to use the gear is the important bit.

As for why 2.4GHz, it's license free everywhere and it blends in the noise for "tactical" use. where you only want to communicate with people within a building or so.
Operating in TV whitespace or cellphone guardbands would be way cooler, but parts are less available.

What is a pirate chip?

Who /ultimatepoorfag/ here?

Unlicensed clones of PL2303HXA and FT232RL USB-serial converters don't work with stock drivers under windows, you'll need patched ones. You're unlikely to encounter them, though - now chinks put their own CH340s into cables and don't bother with knockoff ICs.

Those fucking pussies.

Recently acquired a Yaesu FT-60, and am looking to get my license soon.

Has anyone here used the FT-60, and if so, how long should the battery last, just monitoring. Mine lasts ~6 to 8 hours without transmitting before the low battery signal comes on.

One of my instructors had one and said the charge was about that long.

How long does it take for my license to show? Updated my FRN to have my info on it and I have been checking QRZ daily since I did the exam last Saturday.

How would they actually enforce this? I've thought about creating a goonies style note code for a number station. Will the FCC triangulate my position and throw me in jail?

Bored old hams absolutely will find and report you. There's a whole subgroup that prides themselves on this

I have the occasional daydream of trying to imagine what Radio would be like if TEH MANZ RULEZ didn't exist.

..like every spastic 15 year-old running jammers that they paid a 5000% mark-up for off EBay

It would have never worked like they wanted it to.
Physics is a harsh mistress.
You cannot beam 2.4Ghz wifi to cellphones from orbit with a 10cm x 10cm x 10cm cube.
No power, no gain and best of all, no support for "wifi broadcast" reception in consumer equipment.

Nice, done anything with them yet?

Every religious nutjob broadcasting on every band in every mode with 500kW.
Wideband FM on 160m, with a seremon how you are all going to burn in hell.
All of bands from 6m upwards are 1kW long range wifi, its 99% porn, rest is political rants.

All the poor baofeng folks are left in the dust while the other folks run 1kW on every channel, at the same time coz fuck other people.

Or it might go like 11m and 49m freebanders to, who are usually a polite bunch.
From my experience anyway.

In all honesty as long as you behave and don't interfere with others you can do almost everything on amateur radio.
Just look at how much tits the southern european folks send on SSTV.
Zero fucks given, the picture has a callsign.

Realtime SSTV images, but mostly boring.
g0hwc.com/world_wide_live_sstv.html
worldsstv.com/

I guess I should SSTV more with spurdo.

Hey you link farmed slightly. Nice job. Maybe someone will fall for it this time. /s

6-8 hours sounds about right, depending on power-saving, scan mode, battery size, amount of time it's actually opening squelch, audio volume, GPS and bluetooth if installed, etc.

Amateur portables usually don't optimize for power consumption and have tiny batteries compared to commercial/public safety radios. One of the reasons why many hams buy the "professional" gear.

Managed to spin up an OpenBTS, but other phones can't register in the new net despite seeing it. Maybe it's my cable being too bad for such speed (pl2303).
I'm using sylvain/testing branch because jolly/testing hangs up after uploading both on c115 and c139, anyone here knows how to fix it?

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What do? Reading the ARRL Handbook from 1956 actually seems less complex than the 2016 License Handbook. I don't get it...

I made this for /hamradio/ It should give you a good idea of good to shit coax.

Don't forget the Degenerates who want to use 'anonymous' radio to buy drugs.

I'm ready to graduate from my Baomeme and need a recommendation on a better and not-cheaply-built handheld. I'm hoping that I can get a tech license in november, and need something I can use anywhere on the UHF/VHF bands.

also, what antenna and other hardware would I need to transcieve and decode digital formats from a desktop? I got a nooelec ham-it-up & RTL dongle for listening, not sure what else I would need.

some clarification, I plan to decode digital transmission from a desktop PC, what hardware do I need to send transmissions?

>>802199 (checked)
There are two ways to transmit in digimodes:
1. Good ol' traditional transceiver connected to the soundcard. You'll control the frequency on the transceiver itself (unless you get a CAT interface and a supported rig) and do the encoding/decoding on the computer.
2. SDR. You do everything on the computer, but transmission-capable HF SDRs are very fucking expensive, and most of them are QRP.

The common ham text formats use your PC's sound card as I/O. Be more specific if you mean something else.

How would they find someone over radio?

Hams and shortwave listeners tune around for interesting signals all the time. They WILL find you sooner or later.

A radio and a computer, depending on the radio, you may need some other minor odds and ends for switching.

What? You mean like how number stations are located?..oh wait! They aren't are they?

443 MHz license free operation QRP
ti.com/product/CC1101

CC1101 is highly suited for FHSS or multi- channel systems due to its agile frequency synthesizer and effective communication interface.

Ignore this post

I'm new in radio, I bought a regular chink baofeng, but I don't know what to listen to. I live in western europe.
How do I "scan" channels trying to find anything to listen to? I tried to search for some ham amateur lists, but when I listen on these chans, I don't ear anything...
Seriously, I want to go further, but I first need to listen to something...

Moreover, is there a way to plug my radio to a regular jack headset? thanks.

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testing your shilling software?

With some APRS rigs you can set position ambiguity, with others you can enter your position manually and just lie if you want.

"Numbers stations" are normally on HF. They could be 1000's of miles away. Because of propagation its almost impossible to direction find one unless you happen to be already on top of it.

On VHF/UHF RDF is not hard at all.
homingin.com/
With SDR's, raspi's and googlemaps its almost automated now. What used to take a team of people with maps and compasses could be done with one guy just driving around town collecting data to build a map.

The encryption ban is to protect the bands
Commercial radio frequency's cost money to license. If you had no way to ID a signal the tiny slivers of ham spectrum would be clogged up with niggers dispatching taxi's, tow trucks, etc on them.
Just look at the shitstorm WINLINK 2000 caused on the HF bands. Its primary user was richfag yacht owners who where to cheap to pay for satcomms to get their email. So they got ham radio licenses for the sole purpose of sending internet emails.. They didn't give a shit about the community or etiquette and just stepped all over people already using frequencies.

Ham radio is a communal hobby. Meeting and talking to new people is a big part of it. "MITM" is encourage. You hear friendly 2 guys talking you drop your call and join in the conversation.

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ok, thanks you.
I want to start with a low price thing. Don't except someone who start something he doesn't even know if he's gonna stick with it with hundreds of dollars of materials.

The skipchasers on 27.555 and the 49m guys seem more polite run nicer stations then a lot of stuff you hear on 40m from licensed hams. 40m has basically turned in to Holla Forums.

Even the 6mhz "pirate radio" broadcasters are very gentleman like. They do a decent job of not interfering with each other or legitimate radio comms. The FCC basically turns a blind eye to them because they don't bother anyone.

Also it exists to discourage spies from using ham radio to communicate.

JOTA is tomorrow
Who here's gonna try to talk to little boys

Be sure to drop some red pills on them. The leftist scum are trying to infiltrate.

I considered getting into it but there's not a lot of space on our property, and I don't have time for it at this stage anyway. For now I mostly pick stuff up with a FUNcube and handheld telescopic antenna.

One time I heard a ham relay a story about how he was faced down with a sword in London after a road rage incident. I think I've got the recording somewhere.

Le mao
You basically don't, scanning speed on the uv5r is pathetic. You should have bought a cheap sdr instead.

I have one, but the funny thing is that I fail to install the driver in the kernel, on gentoo.

Thanks for the number station clarification.

No, I fully agree with you. I was merely pointing out how accurate the guide author was.

All of that shit you're bitching about sounds fucking radical. I'd take a sound version of web 1.0 over HEAD RADIO any day of the week.

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On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being lowest and 10 being highest, how confident are my work piece indicators? I seem to have lost some bits which I believe I will find at a later date.