Maintaining SUK computer communications in a grid-down world

[Lightspeed]

[TOF]

Now that, has to be one of the best ideas I've heard regarding comms, ever. It would seem to simplify and increase communication power by some considerable means. It just gets my goat that this sort of stuff is yet again, restricted to HAM use only.
Anything that is half useful seems to require a licence! Grrrr

[BeardyMan]

Now that, has to be one of the best ideas I've heard regarding comms, ever. It would seem to simplify and increase communication power by some considerable means. It just gets my goat that this sort of stuff is yet again, restricted to HAM use only.
Anything that is half useful seems to require a licence! Grrrr

So use it to receive before SHTF, then afterwards you can do whatever you want.

Or just use it regardless, I would imagine that if you're not a heavy user you won't get caught.

[Scythe13]

Not Mac Compatible...no program to open it. I'll keep searching for those Apple fans.

[BeardyMan]

@S13 - use an emulator

[Scythe13]

Tried mate. Not working.

[Jonas]

Another advantage of PSK31 is you can broadcast on much lower power and a much narrower bandwidth. It makes you a whole lot harder to find!

[Lightspeed]

Hi Scythe,

Maybe Digipan will not work on Apple, but I'm sutre you'd be able to find a PSK31 program that would.

PSK31 is the standard, it doesn't matter who makes the interface software, it all talks to one another, provided the transmitters and frequencies are matched.

For my low power portable station I have an old netbook running Windows Mobile OS and that does fine

Jonas:

Good point, narrow bandwidth and lower power is the stealthy way to operate.

[OpSecRadio]

You can get PSK31 programmes for Android and Iphone smart phones. I use it on my Sony Experia mobile phone, hooked up to my handheld radio. We've held communications over several miles from HT to HT using this method, when there was no chance of voice communication.

[Lightspeed]

OR

That's an excellent use of mobile phone legacy capability in a post SHTF world.

I'd forgotten your post abouit using PSK to increase range of FM Mode hand held radios. Were you using mobile phone based coding and decoding in your tests?