Yup.
Nip5 is “vanity key” ;)
It’s a huge part of preventing impersonators, spam and also fun vanity
Love it, just wish the nip5 ID would be very visible.
The #[0] DMed me this:
It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong. — Chris Torek
Does @nvk@nvk.org work yet or do I need to type the pub key? Let’s find out…
She must really love you if she married a non HAM 😂😂
Tell her your are her XYL before you google it.
If blocks were below 300kb we could board cast them whole via lower HF bands. Essentially buy all the failing AM stations and make them into block broadcasters, without half hemisphere reach on a bad day.
Yup. Where I am they are 10x harder but do it once for life. Same for call signs. Mine till i die, my family gets first dibs on them too.
That’s your personal preference, not a spec of the network. Many here interacting with you are on different clients and can see the like authors.
Yes, and do it! The license test learning is actually a good education on the subject
Not just here, I’m pretty sure anyone who cares about this stuff is running their own nodes.
Yes, to transmit. Not to receive (in NA)
There is no “real privacy” in public events. Similar to bitcoin transactions everything is public, pseudonymity.
At this pace we might be at 1M before end of the year
Having near world wide comms coverage with any infrastructure is extremely satisfying. And you learn it of physics for free. The new kids are really being the hobby back with JS8&FT8 digi modes on QRP(low power), it’s really neat. As comercial stuff loses interest in sub 30mhz, the pectrum is wide open for experimentation and no more encroachment into ham bands.
Better.
Keyboard to Keyboard on Amateur radio has some of that feel. But feels kinda empty/dying, unlike the internet which vibrant.