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I think this is for the amateur non-licensed crowd. In emergency, I think having massive uptake of amateur radio by non-licensed users would lead to issues.

That’s exactly what will happen. They’ll sell to make bank.

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Paywall 🙄

Hopefully it will get it trending again, could use more nodes.

They're not walkie talkies, they're simple messengers, text and some emoji's. and only limited by the number of devices on the same network.

Preppers must be creaming themselves.

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Paywalled, but I assume this is some sort of mesh network, which we have had since the 90's?

Why would they name a product something that reads like cancer-related metastatic?

Have a couple Heltec's myself, it's very neat.

I need this in Oregon when the big one happens

Interesting

Closer to radio communication I think (encrypted)

It is! Different frequencies I believe but yes!

I have two, a base and a portable, not hard to set up either, just be sure to plug in the antenna before powering on. Longest range logged so far via 5 hops is 566km a station in the Netherlands, quite impressive.

Radical! Salute! 🫡

do you have the attention span of a mosquito or something?

That's already begun! www.newscientist.com/article/2481...