chris
Chris has had no Ham license for decades, mostly because there always was something else eating up his time. But next congress, definitely.
Chris does not expect the fall of civilisation and would not consider himself a prepper, but being able to communicate if centralised infrastructure is not available for a while seems like a good idea and the real treasure are the friends we make on the way.
Contact:
Matrix: @chris:strafpla.net
Mastodon: @chris@strafpla.net
https://mail.strafpla.net
Session
We meet indoors at CDC Circle and go outside to launch some comms infrastructure on a tethered balloon.
As every Star Trek fan knows, humans are "ugly bags of mostly water" [S1E18] so RF communication in areas densely packed with humans - or their infrastructure made of metal and stone - is problematic.
We'll explore ideas to overcome or mitigate this problem, ideas that are possible due to miniaturisation of RF devices and their constraints.