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How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I saw the most amazing thing. You know those meshtastic devices? Well, apparently, somebody has made something like that. Exactly for amateur radio operators, and you can text message and location share, etc. with one watt of power. I think the meshtastic devices are probably limited to 0.1 watts of power. So that would be a major, major improvement. You just plug this tiny box into the USB Type-C port on your phone and it becomes a one-watt HT with voice and text capability. Or at least I think it said it had voice.

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh that’s really neat. It would be extremely helpful for situations like the hurricanes in the US these past months.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, tell me about it. And apparently, it only takes $35 worth of components and a 3D printer to build it.

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have a link for it? Or some specific keyword I can search for? I have tons of components sitting around and a 3D printer.