Better start getting offline contacts and friends...

[RedArmy]

Parler Founder:

We will not cave to pressure from anti-competitive actors! We will and always have enforced our rules against violence and illegal activity. But we WONT cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!

Finally, a true Patriot, stand and fight!

 

[Hoji]

Any HF radio people here?

 

[jordanmills]

Hope you folks got a good ham radio.


Keep your coms short. Easy to triangulate with a few amateurs. .gov can probably do it much faster.


Kind of joking. You got a little time.


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Best learn how to work digital modes.

 

[jordanmills]

Any HF radio people here?

KI5BRE but I hadn't had a chance to get general or extra.

 

[RedArmy]

You guys brought up an interesting topic on HF radio. I've started looking into it, could be a fun hobby as well.

Antennas... How Many Do I Need? | Ham Radio School.com

 

[Younggun]

Best learn how to work digital modes.

I’m going with smoke signals.


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[Younggun]

Had a Ham license when I was younger. Probably 12 or 13 when I got it. Was young and moved on in a year or so and let it expire.


Course, if it gets the the point I absolutely need one again I suspect it won’t matter much and few would be giving out there registered callsigns, lol.


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[no2gates]

Any HF radio people here?

I got my ham license over 20 years ago. N5ACK

 

[Hoji]

Might be looking for someone to give me the “HF for Dummies” course in the near future.

 

[no2gates]

Best learn how to work digital modes.

That would be the best way to keep the comms short. Use FT-8. I used only FT-8 last Field Day.

 

[no2gates]

Might be looking for someone to give me the “HF for Dummies” course in the near future.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you have and I'm sure others here as well would do the same.

 

[SA_Steve]

Nellie Ohr got her ham license in the middle of the Trump dossier investigation. With a name that unique, a google search turned her up on the FCC ham database.
(Who was she in comm with ?)

I've had my General Class license for almost 50 years now. Had to pass a 13 wpm morse code test. Could never do that again ! Also had a first class RadioTelephone license but they declared them not to be needed for anything at all since certain folks could never pass the test.

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

It is also time to look for secure phone and email apps. At one time, the Germans wanted to ban Skype because the police could not access calls to monitor criminal activities.

 

[no2gates]

The only problem with encryption programs is, can you trust that their program doesn't have a backdoor decrypt to it?
Years ago, I wrote my own encyption/decryption utility and made it a shared key so the recipient had to know the key I gave them via snail mail.

 

[jordanmills]

That would be the best way to keep the comms short. Use FT-8. I used only FT-8 last Field Day.

FT-8 is anything but short. At least in this context. Long transmission time, little content.

 

[jordanmills]

It is also time to look for secure phone and email apps. At one time, the Germans wanted to ban Skype because the police could not access calls to monitor criminal activities.

The skype architecture was changed some time ago, and that no longer applies.

 

[jordanmills]

Nellie Ohr got her ham license in the middle of the Trump dossier investigation. With a name that unique, a google search turned her up on the FCC ham database.
(Who was she in comm with ?)

I've had my General Class license for almost 50 years now. Had to pass a 13 wpm morse code test. Could never do that again ! Also had a first class RadioTelephone license but they declared them not to be needed for anything at all since certain folks could never pass the test.

Now you don't have to. No morse requirement for any license now.

 

[SA_Steve]

Now you don't have to. No morse requirement for any license now.

I know !

I quit operating on the air in the 1970's due the change in civility on the ham bands. Some nasty jerks running way too much power took over. I suppose things could be better these days since VHF / repeaters have become common (some requiring paid subscriptions).

Kinda like forums are these days !

 

[no2gates]

I know !

I quit operating on the air in the 1970's due the change in civility on the ham bands. Some nasty jerks running way too much power took over. I suppose things could be better these days since VHF / repeaters have become common (some requiring paid subscriptions).

Kinda like forums are these days !

There's still some assholes on the air. Depends on the band and the area you're in. If you've ever listened in on the 2 meter repeaters in the Los Angeles area, you'd know what I mean. Or the ass-hat in Canada who used to park on 14.275 and basically owned the frequency and hated Americans.

 

[General Zod]

It's interesting seeing all these liberals who claim to oppose huge corporations having power...and are now cheering online censorship done by these selfsame corporations. Will they still cheer when their corporate overlords disagree with something they say?