Hello meshers, I have a friend who is a licensed US HAM operator, I’m curious if they’re then required to use their meshtastics in HAM mode, or if that’s only for airtime and power limitations. Certainly has been a fun hobby ro pick up

  • 7toed@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I was wanting to touch into that… said friend didn’t know you could just pull his location from a map by name, and I’m not too keen on that myself

    • NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 days ago

      If he’s a licensed ham then anytime hearing him transmit on any freq will know who he is and where he lives with the hear he already has running 🤷‍♂️

    • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      said friend didn’t know you could just pull his location from a map by name

      a couple thoughts

      • The FCC ham license database is publicly available already, including name and location of the “station”.
      • one can munge, obscure, or simply not share location with mesh nodes.
      • 7toed@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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        6 days ago

        The FCC ham license database is publicly available already, including name and location of the “station”.

        Oh i knew this, evidentally he didn’t, old timer though. He tells me they’d flag down people if they were clogging their frequencies in the 90s… according to him lol