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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 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