[CQ] [hackerdojo] Would anybody like 100 jail radios?

Dr. Jesus j at hug.gs
Tue Nov 16 21:21:48 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>>> There's a good chance that I'm going to have roughly all of these
>>> coming to NB, I just have to get them there.  I can pick them up on
>>> Thursday afternoon, but probably not before.
>>>
>>> They'll come in as a donation, and go onto the hack shelf, free for
>>> people to use as they will, which is exactly Katy's goal.  Awesome.
>>
>> Are there any more details?  Specs?
>>
>
> None whatsoever, but I'm sure they're older HTs from the pre-trunking
> days.  I suspect they'll be kind of a pain to work with, but will
> still be useful for ... something.  It might be amusing to set up a
> simplex repeater on one of the amateur frequencies they cover.
>
> (And, if nothing else, we're still better equipped to handle these as
> e-waste in 6 months than just about anybody else, and they'll take
> less volume than half the printers on the hack shelves, so, y'know,
> it's not an awful thing to do.)

I'm worried they need some proprietary unobtanium application to
program them, and that's why they're being handed off to us.

I'm sure we can eventually reverse engineer the firmware and work
around it if that's true, though.  It's just more time...



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