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

  • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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.
    • 7toed@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      4 days 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