Please welcome Steve @n8gnj to Mastodon.radio ! He is the editor of Zero Retries, a newsletter about technology innovation in amateur radio.

Issue 0073 of 2022-11-18:
https://zeroretries.substack.com/p/zero-retries-0073

Topics this week:

Terrestrial Amateur Packet Radio Network #TARPN

Reusing the Baofeng radio chip in projects, from Andreas #HB9BLA

Orv @w6bi wants you to test new #AREDN software

DX'ing Jupiter: radio astronomy (Popular Electronics, 1964) via @dlarc

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@wz0c I've looked at #TARPN and would love to try it. NTS is unfamiliar.

@wz0c @g0dub Okay, I've done some reading.

The best entry point seems to be #AREDN Services Overview (https://arednmesh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arednServicesGuide/services_overview.html) and subsequent pages, not the main website. Follow up with Networking Overview (https://arednmesh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arednNetworkDesign/networking_overview.html).

The #TARPN site has great stuff about net development. They have an active but hidden email list at https://groups.io/g/tarpn/.

Getting back to read more about #TARPN. I really like the "no automated traffic from other networks" ideal by #NCPACKET, _except_ that I think certain telemetry should be able to flow from the ham network to the Internet for purposes of status, discoverability, and promotion. http://ncpacket.net/north_carolina_packet_radio_network.html #hamradio #meshnetwork

@wz0c oops, #TARPN, not TAPR.