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I see more and more people talking about meshtastic and their use as HAM radio operator…. Please don’t ! First meshtastic is most of the time in ISM band and not HAM band and also you use cryptography on the link which is absolutely forbidden for HAM radio. When some gvt will find that this use of meshtastic is a problem they will take opportunity to act against ham radio right too….
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Show threadMichał SP6MRJan 5

@natsfr I am not a fan of Meshtastic (I find Reticulum way more interesting), but there is an option to disable encryption and to make it work for licensed amateur radio operators: https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/user/#is-licensed-ham

And the "cryptography restriction" depends on jurisdiction. As far as I understand it's not illegal for example in Poland.

User Configuration | Meshtastic

Details on Long Name, Short Name, and Licensed operation.

Show threadJeromeJan 5
@sp6mr @natsfr The cryptography restriction is in Article 25.2A of the Radio Regulation, the international treaty defining amateur radio amongst other radio related stuff: "25.2A 1A) Transmissions between amateur stations of different countries shall not be encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except for control signals exchanged between earth command stations and space stations in the amateur-satellite service."
Indeed a country can decide otherwise, internally only.
Show threadMichał SP6MRJan 5
@dl2jml @natsfr Thanks, that's good to know, we will definitely need to take this into consideration as we're (slowly but surely) building hamnet in Poland.