<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">oh yeah, there are plenty of us hams about and some of us are on a local mesh network.<div><br></div><div>now, all I need to do is find a DD-wrt capable router with removable twin antennas, make a beam or 2 and put it on air.</div><div><br></div><div>anyone got a suggestion on the best model to use?</div><div><br></div><div>I might also look at using my linux laptop as an interface here for local (inside the house) networking.</div><div><br></div><div>-eric</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:26 AM, subscriptions wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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sans-serif">Here is some hope!<br>
The solution is a grass-roots solution. <br>
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To counter central technology, we will use dispersed and
independent technology. If and when it becomes necessary or
expedient, a community WiFi network is entirely possible. Most
people have routers which can sustain a power input of one to
three watts. This certainly is enough power to reach several
neighbors across the street. This can be done with little more
than a three-inch antenna or only a built-in ("invisible")
antenna. <br>
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Check it out at your home. Look at how many personal networks
are available to you if only you had the password. Look at the
WiFi settings on your cell phone, tablet, notebook/laptop, or
even your desktop. Grass roots techies will rapidly inform the
participants in these networks how to improve WiFi reception and
reach, using aftermarket antennas or will even encourage the use
of wires and other metal objects as antennas to gain greater
coverage in the same manner as cell towers. These antennas can
be used in much the same was as the old-fashioned TV antennas,
in fact some of the newer (free-to-air) long distance antennas
might even work if (properly) connected to a router. There are
(sports) stadium style WiFi antennas available on ebay that will
give you awesome coverage.<br>
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The point is that we can build our own WiFi networks and use
them to communicate and share information with each other. We
can even share cached web information and help and organize each
other on a scale and with security that was not possible during
the last world war.<br>
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To interconnect communities, we will be able to use hill-top and
mountain-top repeater radios. Repeaters are small radio stations
set up and maintained by Radio Amateurs, aka Ham Radio
Operators. These radios can be used to connect distant WiFi
networks. I highly recommend to anyone who is even slightly
interested or concerned that they get their FCC Radio Amateur
license. It will not only make you a more useful citizen but
should our rogue government become less benign, it will give you
the ability to work for the common man and insure our individual
freedoms.<br>
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There are a number of organizations which can help you to get a
bonafide Radio Amateur license. Education can cost as little
as $35 (2016 prices) and the FCC license tests are given by
vetted licensees who volunteer to give their time to run the
tests. I paid $100 to get the education to pass the (currently)
highest available FCC Radio Amateur license in just a few
months. The testers are free to charge what they want within
reason, but it is so important to them to grow the Ham community
that they usually only charge expenses which is a token amount.
I had to take three tests and the total test fees turned out to
be only $10. Just as an example.<br>
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I can only say that the Ham community has a great bunch of
stand-up persons. I am extremely grateful to all my Ham
friends, some of whom I knew as a boy and some of whom are still
my friends. I encourage everyone who has even a remote survival
impulse to get at least a novice FCC Radio Amateur license.<br>
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And I should also mention that Hams help in rescue operations
during local and national disasters. That was the original
reason the the government created the Ham licensing. There was
a time during the 1920's that it was illegal for any to own or
operate an ordinary radio. <br>
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On 08/29/2016 12:06 AM, David Schwartz wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:9B064A65-DAEA-4510-AC7F-969D230C21A0@thetoolwiz.com" type="cite"><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">It seems like pretty
much everything in America started with the election of one
Barack Hussain Obama in 2008.</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I guess the world
will end when he steps down next January, eh?</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">-David Schwartz</font></p>
<blockquote><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">On Aug 28, 2016, at
6:58 PM, Keith Smith <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com"><techlists@phpcoderusa.com></a>
wrote:</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The article states
in part “Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be
overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its
antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already
proposed Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for
them to censor the internet globally. So much for the Obama
pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a
“government-led or an inter-governmental organization
solution.””.</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This could be
really bad.</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">What is the
solution?</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Keith</font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">---------------------------------------------------
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