The FCC ham license database is publicly available already, including name and location of the “station”.

Oh i knew this, evidentally he didn’t, old timer though. He tells me they’d flag down people if they were clogging their frequencies in the 90s… according to him lol

It’ll lose only one hop over the two routers

Sweet that’s just what I was hoping to hear. And those RAK units have sounded real promising, seems like the perfect time to start adopting local meshes

Yes on that second part, which really makes me wonder what purpose it serves, unless you had a bunch of HAMers in an area that want to set up a mesh… but they all already have HAM so whats the point almost 😅

Sweet, thank you. That’s basically what I figured, but the arcane rules may have had something else to say, especially things like the HAM encryption restriction, you never know 🤷‍♂️

I was wanting to touch into that… said friend didn’t know you could just pull his location from a map by name, and I’m not too keen on that myself