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Advancing Ham Radio.. different ideas
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Advancing Ham Radio.. different ideas is a personal blog at kb9mwr.blogspot.com about hardware and science. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, which is an unrelated suggestion about WiFi and dial-up gear for Egypt and does not mention this blog. The title suggests amateur radio ideas, but the comments say nothing about the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Experimentation seems lost in the hobby. This is my attempt to spread some new ideas and help enable those who want to explore something new..
What Hacker News says?
A suggestion for Anonymous: prepare WiFi and dial-up equipment packaged as one-step setup appliances and packaged for outdoor installation. These could be used to establish some sort of information infrastructure, then abandoned in hidden locations on rooftops. Having such equipment prepared and ready to ship out would make it much harder for regimes to cut their people off from the rest of the world. Equipment coul…
Comment linking /2010/09/diy-emergency-cell-tower.html
on “Help Egypt. Join the cloud”Submitted Listening to 700 MHz Simulcast public safety radio cheaply as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transmitter Fingerprinting as a story · 27 points
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