It’s also slow AF. It’s potentially faster to have someone read you text than get it by packet over radio.
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Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoFor anyone reading this currently, it appears that regulation bans any form of encryption over HAM radio broadcasts. So I guess that’s one reason this won’t work.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MITM0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How would they find out ?
daq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A high powered antenna that transmits a lot of “static” would be a dead giveaway.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s not really static. It’s digital, the transmission scheme has structure. It’s only the transmitted data that is encrypted, but you’d have to first unpack the transmission to get to the data.
daq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I understand. I was replying to how gov agencies would find out. Any digital transmission is basically “static” to an analog receiver.
YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
True, you could send encrypted data via morse code. Nothing but a pure tone.