Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?

Re:Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio? by jvanderbot on Thursday July 18, 2024 @02:57PM (#40998657)

I'd love to do more local / device networking, but I feel that's basically a solved problem. I can plug zigbee modules in all day and make serial packets bounce anywhere.

Hackers are sparse geographically. It's not like my friend down the street would plug in his radio and we'd share packets. And if we did, why not use the internet?

HAM has been a bit of a letdown to me, too. I had higher / hackier hopes for it.

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Re:Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio? by falcolas on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:01PM (#40999170)

> that's basically a solved problem. ... why not use the internet?

Pretty close to everything you can do with radio signals is "solved", just like almost everything you can do with computers is solved.

But these problems have been solved by other people. Not you. What are your motivations for hacking at all? It's probably not because you're in entirely novel territory.

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