• Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    For 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
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      4 hours ago

      It’s also slow AF. It’s potentially faster to have someone read you text than get it by packet over radio.

      • daq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14 hours ago

        A high powered antenna that transmits a lot of “static” would be a dead giveaway.

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          12 hours 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
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            3 hours ago

            I understand. I was replying to how gov agencies would find out. Any digital transmission is basically “static” to an analog receiver.