🚀 Announcing HAMSTR: NOSTR Over Ham Radio! 🚀

Take your NOSTR experience fully off-grid with HAMSTR - enabling decentralized communication through amateur radio. Now your NOSTR posts can travel through the airwaves! 📡

What started out as a simple, fun off-grid and camping project has morphed into an entirely different beast that is now geared towards the future of NOSTR, decentralization, and continuing the fight for censorship resistant communications and money.

Key features:

Full NOSTR functionality (post, reply, boost, search)

Works with any KISS-compatible TNC

Optimized for 300-600 baud operation

Following & Global feed support

Lightning address support ⚡

Secure key storage

⚠️ Current ALPHA supports single client-server setup (one user at a time). Future updates will bring:

Multi-user access control

Decentralized authentication

Global 24/7 server(s) access (ie: winlink) over HF radio

ZAP Support using NWC

FLDIGI support

Reticulum network integration

Perfect for:

Off-grid communication

Emergency preparedness

Decentralization advocates

Ham Radio enthusiasts

Current Requirements:

Amateur radio license

HF/VHF transceiver

KISS-compatible TNC

Python 3.7+ & Node.js 16+

Ready to try it? Check out the repo: