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Steve Stroh
Personal blog · zeroretries.orghardwarescience
Steve Stroh writes Zero Retries, a personal blog at zeroretries.org about hardware and science. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for coverage of open-source radio and mesh networking, including critiques of projects like Meshtastic and hardware such as the open.space phased array.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An independent newsletter about technological innovation in Amateur Radio, promoting Amateur Radio as (literally) a license to experiment with and learn about radio technology.
What Hacker News says?
The open.space phased array is a similar power, but an electronically steerable all-digital beamformer. Was covered on zr: https://www.zeroretries.org/p/zero-retries-0224?#%C2%A7opens... Looks beautiful on a tripod.
Comment linking /p/zero-retries-0224
on “Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon”Submitted Communications in the Hurricane Helene Aftermath as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not OP, but there's a lot of criticism of meshtastic from people knowledgable about mesh networks. I also have been critical of meshtastic on this site. Here's an example of a good criticism: https://www.zeroretries.org/p/zero-retries-0215 I have no experience with the community, but if they couldn't have been bothered with understanding AlohaNet from several decades previous, than maybe it's not surprising. I m…
Comment linking /p/zero-retries-0215
on “My First Meshtastic Network”