NPR: New Packet Radio

Re:NPR: New Packet Radio by deadmetheny on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:32PM (#19486504)

>Someone has to discover whats happening and actually care that a rule is being violated. There really are not many hams that have the skill to figure out what is happening when they hear this on their precious 70cm band and THEN realize encryption is happening on top of the network layer. Sure, they exist, but they are also generally busy doing real things that matter rather than volunteering for the Amateur Auxiliary.

In my experience, there absolutely are plenty of hams out there who will triangulate you and report you for violations. You'd probably get away with a warning at first, to be fair, but many hams (at least around these parts) are old retired dudes with nothing better to do.

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Re:NPR: New Packet Radio by saul_goodman on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:46PM (#19487028)

You're not wrong, but you are also lumping "old hams" into the same category as "hams that use computers". While the old dudes can certainly fox-hunt like no bodies business, they are the same dudes that get irate at the idea of hooking a perfectly good ham radio up to a computer, so that rules them out for figuring out something like ssl is being used ;-P.

If you think I'm wrong, just walk around any ham fest and ask for help setting up your Winlink node ;-).

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Re:NPR: New Packet Radio by wglb on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:12AM (#19491993)

In contrast, if you look at the astonishing upsurge in the FT8 activity, it can't be just new kids.

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