alt Hacker NewsThere are many cheap shanzhai android phones with walkie talkie ptt functions (around 400MHz iirc) for about a decade. We tried to convince manufactures to open up the software stack to no avail, while being bullied at local hackerspaces (“this is illegal!”). I am licensed.
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lichenwarp • yesterday at 8:00 PM
Why is it that pretty much every ham operator I've met has been a complete jackass.
It's mindblowing to me how modern cell phones have worse broadcast and P2P capabilities than what we had decades ago (when feature phones often featured FM receivers and could share photos via Bluetooth across manufacturers and OSes).
Airdrop was the closest thing we had, and even that has been intentionally nerfed for non-contact senders.
It's absurd that modern phones can talk to satellites hundreds of kilometers above, but not to other phones a few meters away in the same room, airplane cabin, train car etc.