The mesh is full of TDS-ers and "Free speech as long as it's the kind of speech I approve of" voices. I've had to mute a couple that started going on about the death of certain heads of state.
Interesting. Didn’t know that you could passively see public like groups.
I’d say that it likely is Feds getting in early to see if they can snare someone.
The mesh has a couple of options. There's the "public channels" named for the encryption type they use. "LongFast" is the most common and used because it's apparently optimized for the system at hand. Anyone can send and receive on these channels. The mesh also has MQTT channels you can attach to that are fairly fine grain.
There are varying levels of talk below that, you can message a single node, or just set your node so it can't be messaged. I assume that if you have someone's key you can still talk to them in this mode, but I have no one to talk to except for the one that sits on my homeassistant computer and sends notices to my mobile unit.
You can turn off the public channel receives, but I leave them on. I hear stuff all the time, but most of it is just "TEST" or someone who turned on range test and didn't realize it spams a device. I've tried to open conversations by talking about local events, but no replies.
I think the longest conversation I had was with someone at the Fort Wayne Hamfest, and that was a guy that was running a panel on meshnodes.
So could we have a poal channel and then broadcast niggerfaggot every hour on the hour? Then get a roll call?
That is insane. You would think something like this would be full of people that are the "off grid" or "prepper" types. Rather, it sounds like its a bunch of blue haired freaks with nose rings that don't know what bathroom to use.
You need to use this type of tech with a phone or computer, and that technology attracts the reddit crowd. I haven't been in mesh long, but I did do a lot of searching online when I started and ran across some of those reddit subs, including one that was just spazzing out that people like the truckers during covid could potentially send stuff across nodes it owned, and how it would rather shut down than let that happen.
Preppers are buying bags full of Baofeng UV5R handy-talkies. No one is going to give a fuck about licenses during an emergency, and the amateur rules (at least in the USA) allow for general use in the event that life is at risk.
Totally agree. Rules don’t matter when it matters. Now don’t go dipshir talking on a freq that you are allowed in until SHTF.
Or look in the obits, for “ham radio” find the guys name, search for his call sign, then coop that.
Not that I’d do that, but I thought how easy it would be when a friend ham died.
As long as you know the lingo and can walk the walk no one will think twice about an old ham on channel.
Or claim to have dementia sometimes and forget your cq’s and dx’s.