Post #1491313

2026-03-13 08:51 UTC

@kudra @daks HAM radio is forbidden from transferring messages for others to avoid competing with commerce and government. It is highly regulated (exams, licenses, no encryption) and very experimental. That is the perfect group for Meshtastic or Retuculum :) Hi from OK7MS. The less adventurous people will eventually get bored. Onion targeted a different use case. Privacy over existing reliable infrastructure. Less reinventing, easier too - Tor browser is just software.

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@kudra@aus.social 2026-03-13 09:04

@marsik @daks sure, so we have here a new technology (LoRa) with a crossover of users in HAM and tech that see the attractiveness of long range low power simple tech that is legal for anyone to use and connect up pretty wide regions (we have links to NSW, TAS and ACT from VIC with plans for SA and who knows, maybe all the states in Australia eventually) and which has the feel of the early internet or Twitter (132 character message limit and all) and I hope it remains not of interest to commercial entities. My HAM friend who is over 80yo was amazed when I showed him the LoRa hardware, that it should be impossible from the snr, but it works. My area gets regular grid power outages, and I'm very curious to see what else could be achieved with Reticulum above and beyond Meshcore which is largely solar powered, if we can have wifi routers and other hardware all communicating directly without the intermediary of the Telco. TOR requires the Telco's to function, unless I misunderstand the network routing?

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