Re: [PLUG] PLUG Fusion room or DMR Talkgroup

[Jon Badiali <jon@jonbadiali.com>]

RE intro to amateur radio talk:

FWIW, Brannon Dorsey recently gave an excellent talk at the Security Shell meetup about amateur packet radio. It included an intro to amateur radio and demo of the chattervox packet radio protocol, slides at https://brannon.online/sec-shell.pdf and protocol source at https://github.com/brannondorsey/chattervox.

There were a few people there also getting into amateur radio (two, including the speaking, had licenses as well). Might be worth connecting with someone(s) from that, depending on what you're going for.


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On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 7:39 PM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:

> Charlie,
>
> Like an amateur radio beginner's talk specially on digital modes? That could be interesting considering many of the hotspots are pi-star based and RPi's are a thing. :)
>
> BTW... you'll need some sort of digital rig for what we talking about here. Most Baofeng's are analog, though they do have an actual DMR rig (RD-5R) that is tier II compliant now.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Radioddity-RD-5R-DMR-Amateur-Radio/dp/B07B27KF6F
>
> Hmmmm... only $80 (but doesn't work with chirp so that might be deal breaker for some). Add a hotspot and you're good to go.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlie Li" ml+PLUG@vishwin.info
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 4:56:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] PLUG Fusion room or DMR Talkgroup
>
> Keith C. Perry wrote:
>
> > Ok... Hopefully some other folks chime in on this. I know there are more that 4 hams on here and I know people aren't shy about operating email.
> > ;)
>
> I don't have my Baofeng yet. Hopefully that will get rectified soon.
>
> At risk of turning this into a rant, there should be a talk at PLUG
> Central, at first, introducing all this. More on why Central
> specifically in a bit.
>
> We are probably the only (mainly) computing-focused group in the area
> with a significant ham presence. From what I've seen in much of the rest
> of the technical/computing community around here (let alone in general),
> barely anyone has ever heard of amateur radio let alone its purpose.
> Once upon a time, there was a LoRa (433/915 MHz data communications)
> meetup group; no one there had any clue about amateur radio, and I could
> tell everyone came together for the pizza and shiny APIs (of one
> particular LoRa software platform). (I can feel Keith's disgust from
> here just by mentioning APIs, because component-level thinking.) Another
> time, a software developer gushed at how cool Amazon AWS just became by
> having APIs for communicating with satellites, but the ham world has had
> the notion of working space stations for time.
>
> Thus, in order to expose some more people who otherwise would still have
> no clue, we should have a talk at Central, not just for introducing the
> talkgroup or whatever, but really something like "Amateur radio for
> software developers". I specifically say Central because I've acquired
> some contacts in the, shall I say, publicising space, and they're rather
> city-centric. And for something like introducing anything amateur radio
> to even the wider technical/computing community, it's gonna need
> publicising beyond just posting the topic on our website, our -announce
> mailing list and even our Meetup. The setup details of the talkgroup or
> whatever we end up doing can be worked out in due time.
>
> 73.
>
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