oh yeah, there are plenty of us hams about and some of us are on a local mesh
network.
now, all I need to do is find a DD-wrt capable router with removable twin
antennas, make a beam or 2 and put it on air.
anyone got a suggestion on the best model to use?
I might also look at using my linux laptop as an interface here for local
(inside the house) networking.
-eric
On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:26 AM, subscriptions wrote:
> Here is some hope!
> The solution is a grass-roots solution.
>
> To counter central technology, we will use dispersed and independent
> technology. If and when it becomes necessary or expedient, a community WiFi
> network is entirely possible. Most people have routers which can sustain a
> power input of one to three watts. This certainly is enough power to reach
> several neighbors across the street. This can be done with little more than
> a three-inch antenna or only a built-in ("invisible") antenna.
>
> Check it out at your home. Look at how many personal networks are available
> to you if only you had the password. Look at the WiFi settings on your cell
> phone, tablet, notebook/laptop, or even your desktop. Grass roots techies
> will rapidly inform the participants in these networks how to improve WiFi
> reception and reach, using aftermarket antennas or will even encourage the
> use of wires and other metal objects as antennas to gain greater coverage in
> the same manner as cell towers. These antennas can be used in much the same
> was as the old-fashioned TV antennas, in fact some of the newer (free-to-air)
> long distance antennas might even work if (properly) connected to a router.
> There are (sports) stadium style WiFi antennas available on ebay that will
> give you awesome coverage.
>
> The point is that we can build our own WiFi networks and use them to
> communicate and share information with each other. We can even share cached
> web information and help and organize each other on a scale and with security
> that was not possible during the last world war.
>
> To interconnect communities, we will be able to use hill-top and mountain-top
> repeater radios. Repeaters are small radio stations set up and maintained by
> Radio Amateurs, aka Ham Radio Operators. These radios can be used to connect
> distant WiFi networks. I highly recommend to anyone who is even slightly
> interested or concerned that they get their FCC Radio Amateur license. It
> will not only make you a more useful citizen but should our rogue government
> become less benign, it will give you the ability to work for the common man
> and insure our individual freedoms.
>
> There are a number of organizations which can help you to get a bonafide
> Radio Amateur license. Education can cost as little as $35 (2016 prices)
> and the FCC license tests are given by vetted licensees who volunteer to give
> their time to run the tests. I paid $100 to get the education to pass the
> (currently) highest available FCC Radio Amateur license in just a few months.
> The testers are free to charge what they want within reason, but it is so
> important to them to grow the Ham community that they usually only charge
> expenses which is a token amount. I had to take three tests and the total
> test fees turned out to be only $10. Just as an example.
>
> I can only say that the Ham community has a great bunch of stand-up persons.
> I am extremely grateful to all my Ham friends, some of whom I knew as a boy
> and some of whom are still my friends. I encourage everyone who has even a
> remote survival impulse to get at least a novice FCC Radio Amateur license.
>
> And I should also mention that Hams help in rescue operations during local
> and national disasters. That was the original reason the the government
> created the Ham licensing. There was a time during the 1920's that it was
> illegal for any to own or operate an ordinary radio.
>
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> On 08/29/2016 12:06 AM, David Schwartz wrote:
>> It seems like pretty much everything in America started with the election of
>> one Barack Hussain Obama in 2008.
>>
>> I guess the world will end when he steps down next January, eh?
>>
>> -David Schwartz
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2016, at 6:58 PM, Keith Smith <techli...@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>
>> The article states in part “Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to
>> be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust
>> exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part of
>> the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally. So much
>> for the Obama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a
>> “government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.””.
>>
>> This could be really bad.
>>
>> What is the solution?
>>
>> Keith
>>
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