The reasons for amateur radio: -learning and teaching about radio communications and technology -advancing society by bringing communications to places where it is difficult to do so -creating alternative networks easily available in emergency situations -communicating across the world
The last reason is not so important now that telephone communications and the internet have made international contact inexpensive and effortless. But the first three are still valid, and why ham voice/low-speed-data networks are still in use today. Our project (and similar ones like HamWAN.org - amusingly their lead used to live in Winnipeg too, and when he did, him and I ran a test site together for a citywide wifi project) aims to continue that with IP communications. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Jon Langeler <jon-ispli...@michwave.net> wrote: > I have to ask. What's the point of modernizing HAM radio when you have > fast IP connections via any other method? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Colin Stanners <cstann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I posted this a few months back and got a few "too bad we just threw > away a bunch of gear" answers so I'm trying again as a reminder. I'm > thinking of posting this every 3 months if no one considers it annoying. > > > > I'm with a group of hams using wifi gear (mostly Ubnt/MT) at 2.3ghz in a > > project to modernize amateur radio communications. We don't have a big > budget so if anyone has ~2.4ghz Vpol 60-120deg sectors, higher-gain > antennas or Ubnt/MT/other wifi CPEs available cheap/free, please let me > know and we can look at shipping. > > > > Or if any one here is a ham and has the free time to start building > additional networks (I know that's unlikely) I can answer questions/help. >
