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HAM mode question (midwest.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by 7toed@midwest.social 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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[–] fratermus@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 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

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

If he's a licensed ham then anytime hearing him transmit on any freq will know who he is and where he lives with the hear he already has running 🤷‍♂️

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.social 2 points 3 weeks 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