Walkie talkies are toys of limited power. What you want is a pair of programmable radios from China, complete with zero day exploits in the software that infect your PC.
Baofengs? They’re illegal to operate unless you have a HAM licence for 2 meters.
Baofengs?
Exactly lol.
They’re illegal to operate unless you have a HAM licence for 2 meters.
Indeed, but a license is fairly cheap.
The Technician test isn’t too hard either.
Or get the Baofeng gmrs/frs radios. Cheap license no test.
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Man, remember that brief period of time where some people had those cell phones that had a walkie-talkie-like function. You’d be having a conversation with these people and their phone would do this weird blip noise and they’d say “Hold on,” and pull out their phone and “yeah, what’s up?” And then there would be some unintelligible gibberish and they would say “hang on, I’m inside” and then just go walk out the front door.
Nextel. My uncle worked in construction and had one. Chirp chirp.
Yeah, that’s the one. Back when we had the iPhone 1, blackberries, razrs, and the undefeatable Nokias that kids were trying to break so they could get an iPhone.
You’re breaking up? What’s that? Can you move closer to me or get up on a hill? Over.
Radios got their own weird gatekeepers and turf wars too, you got no idea. Try Ham vs GMRS as an appetizer
Are you saying that they might look down on my incredible hulk walkie talkie?
Ham operators-- ready the pitchforks!!
Do all your weird callsigns and then try to kick off the usual loud redneck troll with an insane setup in bumfuck Wisconsin first, then spend 5 hours trying to coordinate with irregular replies with long periods of silence
I’d just like to say
first chad forgot to say ‘over’
Forgot to say what? ‘over’
over, over
Over what? over.
over!
He forgot to say ‘over’, ‘over’
Smoke signals and pigeons.
Fuck phones.
Sent from my Idroid
3D printed carrier pigeons
A handwritten poem on luxurious high-grain French paper, adhered to a catapult boulder, flung at thine enemy’s wall.
Pigeons aren’t real
RIP Firefox phone
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for some things its more like:
degoogled (graphene, calyx, etc) >>> iphone > googled android
Curious: Is there some decentralized version of mobile phones? Like a mesh network for communication over walkie talkies. Your walkie talkie would help extend the range of nearby walkie talkies and route communication between them.
You can make one yourself, see Meshtastic.
That’s exactly what I was envisioning, thank you! I wonder if radios in smartphones (cellular module or wifi direct) could be leveraged to do the same in densely populated areas. Could there be a meshtastic app for phones? Free, decentralized mobile phone calls.
I know people in Cuba used to have a decentralized Internet mesh network, but I don’t know about mobile phones. There have probably been some large crime groups who have made their own networks.
This project is similar to that (and sibling projects such as nomad network and sideband)
Edit: forgot the link! https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum
Ham radio never completely died, just got a bit quieter, but it’s still a thing
And unless you’re using some encrypted digital modes, I can also listen to your conversation, and imagine being a part of it.
Technically, I could do it with phone calls over GSM if the weak A5/1 encryption is used, and I had 1TB of storage for rainbow tables, but that’s fairly illegal.
Talkie-walkie in French. Guess who copied the homework.
Real telephone users use wired connection
Telegraphy is obviously superior
With correct timing “Can I get a 10-9 on that, over.” can be the funniest shit you’ve ever said on the radio.
