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HAM mode question (midwest.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
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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

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I’m curious if they’re then required to use their meshtastics in HAM mode

No, but they can if they want to use the freqs and power.

I run normal nodes but might set up a MT ham node under my callsign just to see if anything pops up.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.
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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months 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

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