You are officially the very first actual ZAP sent over ham radio using HAMSTR. I just launched this tonight. Still having an issue with note publishing to show the zap, but that will happen soon. for now, no note, just the money.
The zap came from a client with NO INTERNET on it. Only a radio connection testing. And also took 4.5 minutes, lolol.
It is possible only on NWC connected wallets.
This officially launches the lightning network into easy ham radio sending territory.
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That is so wild! Nice work! 🔥
Thanks!
Does there need anything special about the radio for Hamstr to work or do you think would a cheaper handheld do?
I'm aware ham has a longer learning curve, but it was something I was starting to investigate a few years ago, that I back burnered.
Yes and no. Currently, since it is so alpha, and nobody is running servers, you would need to run both sides, a client and a server, so 2 radios. This also 2 computers. One on each side. The server runs unattended 24/7(or whatever you want to run of course). And a client. Any low powered device that can run python should work for both. I'm running a pi zero 2 just fine.
But... You also need a way to connect to the radios for ptt. You could use a hardware tnc device on each, or what I'm doing is running a software modem on each side. This has a serial connection to my handhelds alon with the sound cable(CPU modem software does the modulation). Your zap was tested on my house using two dirt cheap baofeng radios and 2 digirig sound cards. https://digirig.net/product/digirig-mobile/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=12829405880&gclid=CjwKCAjwy7HEBhBJEiwA5hQNoqP7xUrFFoNZLuHZIxQgcvbdutmYllCUH8ouws3acWQBl_r4siZnTRoCVZgQAvD_BwE
You don't technically need the digirigs, you could use vox mode on the radio and not have the modem send a ptt signal, but it's less reliable in my tests.
I'll try and draw up some diagrams and add to the repo.
Awesome. Thanks for the info. I was looking at a set of cheap handlhelds so that's perfect. It will be a couple of months before I can start spending some time on just learning the radio half, so don't hurry on diagrams on my part, but that would be incredibly useful.
So badass
