Subj : Re: BBSing opportunties
To   : Avon
From : McDoob
Date : Mon Dec 20 2021 10:06 pm

 Av> Yes this is an area of interest and has been for some time. I have never
 Av> actually taken steps to try to get such a thing working though. For some
 Av> reason it always felt hard to do, probably much more so that it is. I'm
 Av> a licensed amateur operator, not that active and where I am it's mostly
 Av> VHF and UHF stuff... I have not done much with packet but yep, need to
 Av> make some time to do so.
 Av> 

Getting my ham license isn't very high on my priority list. But that only
means that I'm not allowed to build or use a transmitter (or transciever).
Anyone can buy a good reciever and listen in...

I have a couple of RTL-SDRs I like to play with. One of them is occupied by
my PiAware (aircraft monitor) project, and the other is...usually tuned to my
favorite local FM station, honestly...I am really thinking about buying
another one, since I need two for proper trunk decoding, and I want to have
advanced notice, next time the police stop by...

 Av> The other thing with this mode is it's rather limited to who can get on
 Av> the air / use the frequencies and if done well is still probably limited
 Av> to within a city or across a country using repeater networks... still
 Av> that's better than nothing for sure :)
 Av> 

Yep. Being unlicensed, even if I could get your downlink from here, which I
doubt, I'm not allowed to uplink. But, one of the things packet radio was
developed for is 'emergency use'...say, when the internet goes down over an
entire country...

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
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