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How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era(www.zdnet.com)

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theatomictruth@lemmy.world
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Used to work with a radio enthusiast on sailing ships, he’d make posts to social media and check his email literally 1000 miles out to sea via radio.

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rezz@lemmy.world
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Where do I start for this rabbit hole? That sounds mind blowingly cool.

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Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
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I believe it would have been winlink or amprnet. I think winlink really only does low bandwidth things like email and weather bulletins. Not sure about amprnet

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