[Noisebridge-discuss] CQ CQ CQ de KA6RCQ

[Michael Shiloh]

done! welcome to the club, and please bring your questions and ideas!

John Magolske wrote:
> Ham radio at Noisebridge seems apropos -- IIRC a noise bridge is a
> device used by hams to measure the impedance of cables & antennas.
> 
> I'm fascinated by how the amateur radio community has been involved
> with radio since radio was invented (wasn't radio invented by hams?
> and wasn't there a ham radio satellite in orbit within years of
> sputnik?). I like how as as self-policing global community it has
> been able to reserve many segments throughout the spectrum of radio
> frequencies all the way up 250 GHz for non-commercial community use.
> 
> My interests around ham radio include emergency preparedness (NERT),
> and packet radio / digital text transmission. How possible would it be
> to set up an irc channel over local 2-meter repeaters? It would be so
> cool to get irssi to interface with packet radio!
> 
> Please add me to the list. I got my technicians license a few years
> back, haven't been doing much with it, but would really like to get
> more involved.
> 
> John
> 
> KI6BAI
> 
> 
> * Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> [090213 12:21]:
>> I just found out that Jeff, like me, is a ham (amateur radio operator).  
>> I was going to write to him privately but then realized there are  
>> probably more hams and possibly people interested in ham radio on this 
>> list.
>>
>> A small group of us have started a very informal mailing list to discuss  
>> topics common to both hams and the various other  
>> electronic/hacker/burning man cultures. There is no specific focus. We  
>> have discussed communication on the playa, participation in maker faire,  
>> bringing a ham presentation to dorkbot, and various ham projects like  
>> antennas, SDR, repeaters, and DTMF remote control of machines via ham  
>> radio. Like dorkbot, there anything interesting to those involved is by  
>> definition appropriate.
>>
>> For lack of a better title, we (very informally) call ourselves dorkbot  
>> hams.
>>
>> I invite anyone interested to reply to me and I'll add you to the list -  
>> so far it's not a formal mailing list but just a list of addresses in my  
>>  address book.
>>
>> So far, all of us (I think we number about 7) are hams, but interested  
>> parties who are not (yet?) hams are especially welcome. I certainly  
>> consider recruitment and education an important goal of this group.
>>
>> (A ham class at noisebridge is also possible)
>>
>> 73's
>> Michael KA6RCQ
>>
>> (Anyone know of a free list server that is not google or yahoo groups?)
>>
>> (Perhaps at some point we'll have a website and wiki and maybe even a  
>> whiteboard!)
>>
>>
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