Amateur Radio

I've got a few pocket nodes, got a solar node on my roof and just outside the range to transmit into a massive mesh we have around the city. But i hear all the chatter.

Honestly its far more boring than anything I've done with ham radio. No one is having conversations, there are no nets, no socializing using the technology. Just people pinging from random locations.

Where as with my ham license I have local repeaters where we have nets on different topics, including one at midnight for anyone who is up. I chat with people using DMR, EchoLink and Allstar to get out to places all over thw world with just an HT. I do HF work for contests, rag chewing SSB, CW and digital modes. I build hardware and antenna, work from parks, collect QSL cards.

And i also bought a $30 meahtastic radio that i occasionally get a "Ping from downtown, anyone hear me?"