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
AFAIK, you only need to use it in HAM mode if you want to use licensed frequencies, a higher power transmit (assuming the radio supports it; US 915 can transmit up to 1W/30db unlicensed and many radios can only transmit at 22db max), or to go beyond the airtime limitations (there no limitations on airtime for US 915). HAM mode also disables encryption if I recall. Also AFAIK, you’re not required to use HAM mode just because you are a licensed HAM operator.
Sources: Have read the docs but am not a licensed HAM.
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.
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
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.
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
