| minasota | I have to ask myself a few things. Is it necessary? Will I use it as a hobby or as an alternative for communication during a crisis? Will I use it to help during an emergency? | 00:12 |
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| minasota | Or will I just have a room full of really cool looking stuff I have no idea how to use? lol | 00:13 |
| cyberanger | There's likely a ham radio club in your town, actually pretty sure there's two or three in the area. | 00:17 |
| minasota | I work with a guy that is involved. We coached STEM together. I'm going to talk to him tomorrow | 00:19 |
| cyberanger | That'll be a fun day | 00:26 |
| minasota | Ha, this guy's truck is a mobile command center... antennas everywhere. A raspi he's configured to control certain screens inside etc... | 00:30 |
| minasota | I'm thinking he might be able to help ;) | 00:31 |
| cyberanger | Oh yeah, sounds right | 00:31 |
| cyberanger | Been messing with modified wifi and want to test it across Lake Erie sometime soon | 00:32 |
| cyberanger | Or Lake Ontario more likely | 00:33 |
| minasota | Why a lake? | 00:33 |
| cyberanger | Three reasons, helps to have a level area, and those lakes meet that goal easy. lower signal to noise ratio (since nobody lives on the lake, nobody interferring with their own signal) | 00:35 |
| minasota | ah | 00:36 |
| cyberanger | and third, it crosses an international boundary (not really necessary, but adds a coolness factor to it) | 00:36 |
| minasota | proof of concept for what may I ask? | 00:37 |
| cyberanger | General knowledge | 00:39 |
| cyberanger | But also useful to spread info past a communications blockade | 00:39 |
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