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Attention nostr ham radio folks!

HAMSTR server is live on 40M, 7.060mhz on USB !

AFSK 300 baud in direwolf, tnc or other software modem.

Running an off center fed dipole on 40M, about 35feet off the ground, setup for more local to AZ and southwest USA, but am currently hearing Midwest with ease at night.

Will be on hopefully 24/7 for the next few days so I can test over the holiday weekend.

Give it a try!

Simply clone the repo, follow the instructions. Run the web_app.py file after building npm. Setup nostr nsec, callsign and other settings. Then test!

Anyone who connectd and uses HAMSTR will get a 500 sat zap! Post proof, I don't keep logs at all on the server.

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Discussion

The Fishcake (nostr.build) 4mo ago

20M would have been a little more JP friendly, given we have super limited space for antennas here. In any case, awesome news! 🚀🚀🚀

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Yeah, totally. My current setup is more regional and nvis on 40 and 80. Capable for sure on 20m too, but only when the bands are open.

I'll be about 350 miles away camping, so I picked a band that I think may work best. Next time, I'll setup a vertical on 20m or 17m perhaps.

Eluc 4mo ago

Hamster?

https://v.nostr.build/nW4Xo.mp4

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

Your hamster is more nostr related than the radio one mentioned above

At least yours becomes less centralized by the end of the video

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

What the fuck are you even talking about? There is exactly zero centralization in HAMSTR. It is completely open source and I hope dozens, hundreds, thousands of people run servers.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

You've given the FCC money. Do you cancel that out by actively disobeying them, or are you simply a supporter of centralization? Not complicated

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

I also pay my taxes. Crazy, huh. I bet you don't though. I bet you don't use wifibor a phone or a router? Never you a cell network.

Newsflash, you have paid the FCC money if so.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

I don't file taxes even though they'd be the ones paying me. I didn't file taxes when I was homeless and needed COVID stimulus. It's an obedience ritual.

I sure as fuck don't pay the FCC through obedience rituals either.

My phone doesn't have cell service, I don't have an income to pay for wifi, and I don't plan to have an income or pay for my own wifi unless we get an economy where I can generate income without being forced to fund bombing and starvation of brown kids.

Money I have indirectly paid the FCC in the past doesn't make me the one willingly joining obedience rituals to get paid, LET ALONE OBEDIENCE RITUALS I WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR, to say it's OK to violently enforce tax code or radio licenses or shit like that.

Stop trying to project your bullshit and psychotic behavior on me, faggot.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

You are so cool. We should all aspire to be you.

Why don't you actually contribute to doing something to help the world like me?

Or are you just going to bitch all day and whine about things?

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

I'm the one that actually contributes to help the world, not you, bitch.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Oh wow, iust have missed you software project that allows oppressed people to communicate and send Bitcoin globally using ham radio.

Cool, what's the link?

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

Now you're hallucinating shit I didn't say. Is sliding deeper into psychosis helping you? Is it helping the kids in Gaza?

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Absolutely it could, why?

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

Sliding deeper into psychosis could help the kids in Gaza?

What a fucked statement.

Or did you mean your project? Let me know when your project is involved in ending the genocide instead of just helping fund it, then.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

An old laptop, and an incredibly old and cheap ham radio is a way they could communicate on nostr, no internet needed.

Soon reticulum network support for much more hardware support

What else you go, wonder boy?

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

When the guy in Gaza who found a ham radio and a wall outlet (for cheaper than regular internet access) posts something that cancels out all the harm done by people you encouraged to pay the FCC or generate other US federal revenue, I'll be beyond amazed.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

You do realize there are tons of ham signals happening all the time in Gaza, right?

And that they have power and cell signals, right?

I have a former intern I speak with regularly who is there. She email me at least 5x per month.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

Power and cell signal are extremely limited in Gaza, but available enough to make phones a more generally viable way to access nostr than ham radio

Gaza is also being genocided by the US, who you pretend it's good to generate revenue for

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Thank you for confirming why #HAMSTR helps Gaza. Appreciate it

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

You have yourself a nice day, I'm gonna head out to go donate to the IDF in your name.

🤘👊🤘

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

Is this pure sarcasm or you showing your true colors?

shortwavesurfer2009 4mo ago

Wait a second, USB on 40 meters? Is that just to purposely get away from other 40 meter traffic?

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago 💬 1

Most data runs on USB. Doesn't have to, but yes, usb

shortwavesurfer2009 4mo ago

Oh, okay. I've not done any real data transfer over HF, so I wasn't aware of that. I know all the voice traffic on less than 10 MHz runs on LSB.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago 💬 1

Yeah. Most all data, whether try, winlink, ft8, js8 call, etc... all run on USB.

With most cw down there on LSB and voice on LSB, it may help increase band space availability. Unsure.

If note, if you have 2 handhelds with data / packet access, you can test and run HAMSTR on VHF just fine on 1200 baud.

Ice used a digirig and baofengs, Bluetooth tnc on a uv pro, sound card connections, and mobilelinkd tnc v3 as different types. Mix and match works fine as long as your protocols line up, ie: 1200 Baud AFSK

shortwavesurfer2009 4mo ago

It does help bandspace availability. If you were on AM, it would be using both the upper and the lower side bands, so you'd only be able to do one thing at a time where, by using both upper and lower for separate things, two people could be on the same frequency and be using it for two different purposes without interfering with each other.

Mind you, the receiver has to be very accurate about being able to measure the side bands, otherwise you could have bleed over. I'm assuming the old tube radios would have problems with it versus today's crystal oscillators and such.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Very true! My newer yeasu ft710 is on the money, virtually no bleed even at 100 watts

MNMeschke 4mo ago

Do you have a YouTube video showing how to set this up? I have JS8call set up and running on 40m NVIS but your directions above are not enough for me to follow to test this. I'm not a coder or computer whiz. Maybe this isn't for me but I'd like to help if possible. I'm using a xiegu g106 and a dedicated lap top and will be making it solar powered here shortly.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

If you can run js8call, you should be able to run HAMSTR.

No installer or build yet, just python and command line to run.

Install python, install node.js, Clone the GitHub repo, build the npm app(instructions in readme), and run the python frontend. Everything else is GUI based.

No tutorials yet, sorry.

MNMeschke 4mo ago

Your directions reference 3 or 4 things I've not done before. I think I'm gonna sit out a bit on this. Sorry. I really like what you are doing but I don't have the time to figure it out right now.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

No worries. Right now it's very much a tech install.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

DM me, then we setup a signal chat to help more if I have time.

Joe 4mo ago

Ill have to get a setup built out here in the FL swamps. Keep strengtgening that network

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Please do. Let me know any help you need!

Joe 4mo ago

Appreciate it, ill holler if i need a hand

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Ideally we can get 5-6 servers running in the US, a few in Asia, a few in Europe. That should be enough to reach a server 24/7 from anymore on earth.

Joe 4mo ago

My issue is a complete absence of A/C. Cant leave servers on 24/7 or they go poof

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Ah ha. Keep in mind you can run a HAMSTR server on a pi zero 2

Joe 4mo ago

Very true, but at 80 ambient internal temp?

Joe 4mo ago

I now want to see if i can make a pi zero have a stroke

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

I don't see why not. Just use a fan case.

Joe 4mo ago

True true.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

Pi zero 2 operating temp is up to about 150 degrees F.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

This version of "hamstr" is retarded. Run unlicensed transmitters if you want hamstr. Obeying the FCC isn't decentralized or censorship resistant.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

You are tough. This version? Lol, it's the only version. I created it.

You are free to download the software and run it however you like. Legal or illegal, there is no code stopping you.

Run your own server.

The best thing is that it even works for douchey keyboard warriors like you.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 4mo ago

You've given the FCC money. If you're not actively disobeying them with your equipment, asking me to do it with mine doesn't help anything.

Nostr Huntrs & Anglers 4mo ago 💬 1

New here, trying to learn/share-comms are always an issue in the backcountry. What are some HAM set ups for backcountry hunts/camping/etc when weight and space are concerns? Could be to communicate with your group or further.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

I take my HF ham stuff all the time camping and on elk hunts.

A TrueSdX radio, a small lipo battery, a wire antenna of any type, and a small laptop(11" Chromebook). That gives me full access to voice and data HF. Whole setup without the laptop is maybe a pound? Maybe a touch more? And very compact, all fits inside a mid size go pro case.

For VHF/UHF setups and shorter range, it is much easier. Just a handheld radio, and for data would need some sort of data interface like a digirig, and a computer. Of course VHF range is maybe 4-10 miles on a handheld.

Nostr Huntrs & Anglers 4mo ago

Copy, Prior enlisted so I’m a visual learner. Does this diagram show an accurate depiction of the components that you listed in the correct configuration? Also, prices and weights check out as well?

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

That is accurate with a caveat.

A TrueSdX does actually have USB direct connection via some odd drivers and hacky setups. It isn't great however. It is much better with a digirig or similar in between. So the TrueSdX would be connected to digirig via audio and ptt cables, and the digirig via USB. The truesdx also doesn't have antenna tuner, so the wire antenna needs to be tuned and low swr, or throw a small portable tuner in between.

Nostr Huntrs & Anglers 4mo ago

Great info, thank you. I’ll start ordering components and reach back out after testing. Recommended antenna with link to order?

u32Luke 4mo ago

Can you do digirig into GOS pixel?

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

You mean like a radio into digirig, then into a pixel?

u32Luke 4mo ago

Yes

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

No idea. It's basically a serial port and sound card in one. My first thought is no, android wouldn't have the drivers.

The easier thing is using a Bluetooth tnc, like mobilelinkd.

Liberty Farmer 4mo ago

I see that WOAD winlink on Android does support digirig using USB and RTS for ptt. So perhaps it is possible in future. For now though, HAMSTR is python and flask based.

Duncan Cary Palmer 4mo ago

Sweet! 🙏😄💖👍