I'm getting seriously interested in ham radio.https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1348192144486354944 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
Good idea. We've been using packet digital radio since the 80s There's no jack or zuck The license/training/equipment is easy to get now and it may come to that
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Replying to @rhinegelt @MorlockP
You study for the license test (35 questions) from a verbatim published pool of questions. No morse code requirement any more. 5 year-olds have done it. And since a lot of hams are old/dying, there's a lot of used equipment around http://arrl.org
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Replying to @rhinegelt
digital packet radio is what I'm most interested in what's a cheap hardware / antenna to start with, and how far can you reach with sky's-the-limit budget ?
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Replying to @MorlockP @rhinegelt
A lot of packet radio activity in the US is on the 2-meter (144 MHz) band, so even a cheap handie-talkie is minimally sufficient for the transceiver component (I'm a fan of the Yaesu FT-65R, which is around $90 new) 1/
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2/ In the old days, you would also need a dedicated Terminal Node Controller and a radio modem or a 2-in-1 combination of both, which can cost several hundred dollars; nowadays though you can use your computer's sound card as a TNC/modem with software such as AGWPE
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3/ Antennas are an entire field of discussion unto themselves, with many hams preferring to build their own, ever-ready to offer up an opinion of why their particular setup is the best but for the sake of the question, a simple 2m longwire J-pole can be obtained for ~$16
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oh, I know @ngvrnd and @AetherCzar - I am not unaware of the World of Antennae !!!
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