Emails Over Radio
Emails Over Radio
The modern cellular network is a marvel of technological advancement that we often take for granted now. With 5G service it’s easy to do plenty of things on-the-go that would have been diffic…
I like this! I’ve been thinking about backup slow trickle internet infrastructure; https://sturlabragason.github.io/blog/2023/05/11/RadioNet.html
This seems to be similar to what the Reticulum network is, it is a peer to peer network stack designed to work over any medium including lora, packet radio, wifi and anything else you can think of.
That’s awesome!❤️ Didn’t know they existed. It’s awesome that they have a fully functional (beta) version of this! Thanks. 👍
Is this different than meshtastic?
Yes this uses normal ham radio and not LoRa like Meshtastic.
I’ve wanted to play with packet radio for a while now. It’s a shame the article pimps a Cloudflare site (winlink). It’s fitting in a sense though because there is a ban on using encryption over the ham radio bands. So the emails over packet radio must inherently be exposed to the world anyway.
What laptop is that in the photo?
Apparently, the Gateway Computer brand was brought out of retirement a few years ago. They’re rebranded Acer laptops sold exclusively at Walmart. Crazy to see that old logo make a comeback.
Funny how that started
