@ki4otk I'm going to hijack your comment a bit. I wish the FCC would explicitly allow encryption. I'm not even against a requirement that you make your key public so it can be decrypted. I believe that that is technically permitted now, but too many people argue that is is completely off limits. Lots of people would benefit from knowing how encryption in radios works.

@ki4otk You're probably better putting a small speaker inside the interior cloth trim, either near the A or B pillar.

@vk6flab Rolling your own does nothing to address abusive admins that will ban entire instances because they don't like the color blue and you do.

@vk6flab I'm not saying it's the case here, but the fediverse isn't much/any better. I understand it's decentralized and people can run their own servers, but people like to use an axe instead of a scalpel. One person or an admin doesn't like you or your server and they'll blacklist your entire server, preventing *any* of their users from seeing or interacting with your posts. The #fediban hashtag is a great example of people blocking to block without regard for users.

I did recently order some #Meshtastic devices to mess with. We'll see how that goes and if I need to get some for the ham bands.