Introverts / People with Social Anxiety: If the internet didn't exist, and the closest thing we got were Ham Radios, would you have the courage to use your voice and talk to people?
Introverts / People with Social Anxiety: If the internet didn't exist, and the closest thing we got were Ham Radios, would you have the courage to use your voice and talk to people?
For me... yea that's gonna be a challenge. I'm glad a text-based social platform exist, I hate talking. Maybe I'd just use morse code...?
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Ham Radio has APRS, which could be considered a "text based social platform".
FT8 for pretty maps and SSTV to xmit memes sounds pretty good. Winlink if I'm feeling adventurous.
What’s winlink?
email.
Oh damn so…what? It transmits the contents into a format that actually registers as email? Some sort of analog to digital conversion?
You're a couple layers off in the protocol stack, but yes. AFSK (Audio Frequency Shift Keying) is a method by which digital data can be encoded on a narrow audio stream. It's basically an old-school dial-up modem.
You can create and/or interpret those audio streams on a smartphone or computer via a headphone jack to pump them to/from the radio.
Ffffffff that’s pretty cool I don’t need a new hobby 😅