Please read up on the things you want to talk about before making yourself look dumb
Apocalypse communications
James Russell
Adrian Barnes
STFU bitch
Luke Bell
Why not just use the amateur civilian echo satellites for phone calls?
Kayden Jackson
GEE I DON'T KNOW YOU SPAZ, MAYBE BECAUSE EVERYBODY LINKED WILL HEAR YOU? SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU RETARDED MOUTHBREATHER
Nathan Diaz
Encrypted ham radio transmission is illegal, ham radio dudes are a bunch of faggots and will snitch on you if they notice you broadcasting anything like that
Cameron Long
Ayden Evans
Hams already have several different global data networks going. We also commonly use RTTY which is compatible with equipment going all the way back before WWII. Hellschriber is also another ancient technique which is used these days, mainly just for a laugh.
DMR and DSTAR and the other competing digital mainly HT / mobile technologies are all memes because the audio encoders and other stuff is proprietary. FM is king and will be into the future. Why much about with all this digital stuff when analog does it just as well? IRLP has been around for what, decades now, and we have echolink for the smart phone. I admit DMR and DSTAR have certain bullet points in their favor but it's balkanizing ham radio.
Yep people have been making satellite repeater voice contacts for decades, too.
Same retards doing this in every thread in Zig Forums see anything Google or Facebook.
Xavier Fisher
Why didn't anyone mention short wave? Sure, you're not gonna be able to torrent moe shit but it will be good enough to sign some bitcoin transactions or to log into an IRC server with low traffic. Maybe send some highly-compressed audio messages, etc.
Besides, it will be a nice return to analog. Wanna hear news from the Czech Republic?
Robert Roberts
There is no competing. DMR won digital. Bigly. The Brandmister network alone has 2900+ repeaters. DMR MARC 500+.
DSTAR is a dead propriety ham meme. DMR is an open standard and very far from a meme. dmrassociation.org
Those are old amateur methods of linking repeaters that depended on the internet. Not really the same thing as DMR since DMR can talk simplex,though a standalone repeater, or though a networked repeater. Even the shittiest bofang DMR radio's can talk FM so your not sacrificing interoperability with a DMR radio.
The user I was replying to was asking about something that could talk encrypted and had a "self destruct" feature. There are DMR radios that support both AES256 encryption and do over the air re-keying. There are DMR radios that have built in STUN/KILL features that can be done simplex in the field. None of his requests could be met by an analog rig.
The only requirement DMR couldn't hit for him would be the range from Maine to NY. For that he would need HF and to work out an opsec protocol for communication over that. The history books would be his friend there. Just look up methods used during WWII.
Easton Gray
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