[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement

[Dave B]

Yes, it will probably work when everything else has failed, so long as 
power is still good.

But...   Here in the UK, HAMNET still has a LONG way to go, not because 
of any technical issue, but we are generally not allowed to carry third 
party (and certainly no non-HAM) traffic, and not interconnected with 
the public internet (or telephone) without a "Notice of variation" to 
our licences.  And they can be a pain to get.

HAMNET is a great idea,  but not the first.   The Eastern Europeans have 
had a high speed data backbone (10MBPS afaik) running up and down the 
Balkans for some years, using RF, WiFi and NIR systems.

Sadly, that will never happen in the UK, due to the monopoly of BT, and 
the lack of understanding of the RSGB, ETC and Ofcom.   However, small 
scale experiments have been conducted, and would appear to be 
successful.  Not that it helps any....

Shame.  One day perhaps, but not any-time soon, in the UK at least..

73.

Dave G0WBX.


On 19/06/16 20:20, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 11:30:39 -0700
> From:"kevinr at coho.net"  <kevinr at coho.net>
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> Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
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> Propagation has been poor to OK this week with noise levels dropping.
> Signal strength is slightly better than it was last week but mostly the
> lower noise has helped comms.
>
> I just read an interesting article in an unexpected place:
>
> <http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/when-everything-else-fails-amateur-radio-will-still-be-there-and-thriving/>
>
> I had not heard about the European HAMNET before.  16 million IP
> addresses available and it will still work when the Internet backbone is
> down.