Elecraft CW Net Announcement

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.

With all of our innovation we are able to stay competitive for the bands
we have been given.  Cool!

Please join us on:
     14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
      7045 kHz at 0100z Monday (6 PM PDT Sunday)

    73,
Kevin.  KD5ONS

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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.


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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.

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