On Thursday, September 11, 2025 4:25:59 PM Central Daylight Time dep via tde- users wrote: > Not only could but does. Where I live, out in the woods, the power goes off > fairly freqently, as it did for about four hours the day before yesterday. > Which is why many of us have generators wired in to the house circuitry in > a way that doesn't energize the power lines -- the power company sends a > blast down the line to kill any generators in the circuit, because they're > tired of getting killed by improperly attached generators. So there is a > neighborhood radio network, which is a short-range class of broadcasting. > I have a ham friend who is after me all the time to join it, which I've so > far resisted out of fear and self knowledge: I might get into it and spend > more money than I should cooking up an amazing rig. But I can see its > utility, especially on those occasions when the power has gone out because > of 18 inches of snow. HF has been used together with UUCP before, and that provides a means for store-and-forward email at least. Here's some discussion that I found: https://groups.io/g/BITX20/message/108630 I recall that HF UUCP was pressed into service in Africa to replace UUCP via hard drive. A drive with the UUCP spool would be physically delivered containing emails for the site. The site would then send outbound email via physically delivered hard drives. Talk about store and forward. To do UUCP over HF, you would have to find someone on the other end to peer your UUCP connection with though. You also have to get an amateur radio license. Oh, and by the way encrypting over amateur radio is illegal in most circumstances, though there are some carve-outs for space operations. I'm an amateur radio operator, but I've never done UUCP over HF. I can't tell you much more about it. I did run UUCP mail back in the 1990s over 2400 baud modems. That's the closest I ever got. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
