Not for personal communications, no. But the emergency communications space is still very much a thing. In my city, Portland, the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management has amateur radio operators set up to provide comms support in the event of an emergency (most likely an earthquake). It’s a hobby for most people, but it’s also a community service.
Oh, for sure. Though it would still be nice. We were told during training to be very careful what we say over radio transmissions. The idea is we don’t want someone to learn that a friend or family member died via the news because someone was listening in on our conversation.
Amateur radio doesn’t really exist for the purpose of personal communications anymore. It’s just an art/hobby/fun times at this point.
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Not for personal communications, no. But the emergency communications space is still very much a thing. In my city, Portland, the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management has amateur radio operators set up to provide comms support in the event of an emergency (most likely an earthquake). It’s a hobby for most people, but it’s also a community service.
Yes, but in that case you don’t really require much of an encryption
Oh, for sure. Though it would still be nice. We were told during training to be very careful what we say over radio transmissions. The idea is we don’t want someone to learn that a friend or family member died via the news because someone was listening in on our conversation.