Activists creating decentralized mesh network that can't be blocked, filtered or silenced

[Stewart Russell]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Anthony Verevkin <anthony-P5WJPa9AKEcsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> HAM radio (both data and old-school voice) positions itself as a
> volunteer run network for emergency communications which is used
> for fun and experiments in all the other time.

Except with the small problem that any amateur radio transmission
cannot be encrypted and that the messages be non-commercial and "of
relatively little importance". So, if you're planning to send anything
sensitive, it's not going out on the ham bands.

(btw, it's not an acronym, so ham can be lower case. The etymology of
the term is lost to time.)

> I didn't find any information on such networks being built in GTA,
> maybe it's worth asking the local HAM radio clubs.

I know some folks who play with microwaves, but not of any particular
network in the area. With affordable cell data, packet radio is almost
dead, except for APRS, which is alive, well and sending tiny data
bursts on the 2m band.

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