Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.misc > #95

Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS

From Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS
Date 2014-02-07 16:13 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ld3ss3$rrc$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <ld3q2n$dnv$1@dont-email.me> <ld3r8l$ile$1@dont-email.me>

Show all headers | View raw

On 2014-02-07 23:46:30 +0000, 2phar said:

> And Amateur Radio satellites carry APRS stations..  I remember being 
> able to relay messages from my TNC to a base in Antarctica via 
> satellite back in the 1980s. Wonderful stuff.

I forgot to mention satellites in this context - good catch!

The murder of Slashdot has gotten me thinking about amateur radio as a 
last-resort non-commercial communications infrastructure.  Amateur 
radio is often mentioned in the context of emcomm, but I think it has 
potential in this increasingly corporate-controlled world we live in as 
a last resort freedom of speech option.

Back to comp.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 15:26 -0800
  Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-07 18:46 -0500
    Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 16:13 -0800
      Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS Massive Unibrow <unibrow@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 07:52 +0000
        Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 09:07 +0000
          Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 11:48 +0000
          Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-08 08:58 -0500
            Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 15:10 -0800
            Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS Vince Mulhollon <vincemulhollon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 05:41 -0800
        Re: Cool Stuff for Amateur Radio - APRS "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-02-08 12:17 +0000

csiph-web