diff --git a/content/fedihams.md b/content/fedihams.md index 71d36c8..b76750b 100644 --- a/content/fedihams.md +++ b/content/fedihams.md @@ -12,12 +12,22 @@ This digital voice network is intended as a place to hang out for all the Fedive # What is this? This project combines different digital voice technologies with the aim of creating a virtual space for voice communication between like-minded people. In the end, it should not matter which technologies individual participants use. It is also intended to provide access to those who do not own a special radio and can connect with their smartphone or computer instead. +The FediHams network is neither topic nor location based. All can jump in, have a chat, make this their home. + +# What you can do with this + +You can + * meet nice people you might already know from Mastodon. + * have a cross-mode and/or cross-network conversation with other people, e.g. you can talk with your DMR HT through the Brandmeister network with three "non-DMR" friends: One has a Yaesu radio, one is on the TGIF DMR network and the other has no digital radio at all but uses Peanut or Echolink. + * have a daily/weekly/monthly net here with your friends/club (please see below). + # Rules * A valid amateur radio license is needed to participate. * Be a decent person or try to behave like one. * The general amateur radio rules apply: No politics, religion etc. - you know the drill. * Please wait at least 5 seconds between key-ups because there is some delay due to the bridging between technologies. This also helps break stations to get through. + * Please don't bridge this network to anywhere else before asking both sides. I'd be happy to e.g. bridge this network via AllStarLink to a real RF repeater or into the D-Star network - but please talk to all involved parties beforehand. # How to connect At the current time it consists of the following reflectors/TGs/nodes: diff --git a/content/post/fedihams.md b/content/post/fedihams.md index ff0e4ef..aebb08d 100644 --- a/content/post/fedihams.md +++ b/content/post/fedihams.md @@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ From the [FediHams page on this website](/fedihams/): "This project combines different digital voice technologies with the aim of creating a virtual space for voice communication between like-minded people. In the end, it should not matter which technologies individual participants use. It is also intended to provide access to those who do not own a special radio and can connect with their smartphone or computer instead." Ed W8EMV wrote a great [post on his adventures with FediHams](https://vielmetti.typepad.com/w8emv/2022/10/fedihams-a-multiprotocol-digital-voice-interconnect-from-dk1mi-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse.html) + +Read more about FediHams [here](/fedihams/).