Comment on New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space

• ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s meshtastic?

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Community driven decentralized radio frequency communications network. Some state populations have started using it in-large for emergency comms in case of severe weather knocking out power. Some people just use it because it’s like $50 to build a node yourself and get into the cool hobby.

    meshtastic.org

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    • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds really cool actually. Does it require special licensing like ham radio does? 

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      • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it does not require a license!

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