• partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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      10 days 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.

      https://meshtastic.org/

      • ageedizzle@piefed.ca
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        10 days ago

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