Ola comrades. I posted this in the general chat, someone suggested I put it here:
On today’s episode of Street Fight there was a caller who got into ham radio and then found it was actually full of white supremacists meeting and being racist psychos.
According to her everybody on ham has to identify by their call sign or risk losing their ham radio license, but if you have someone’s call sign you can look up their name and address in a central database. She made it sound like fascists consider this a safe space and are not concerned with anybody IDing them. Sounds like if you could look up the name, address and phone number of any Chapo user by their username.
I don't know anything about this, but if you have a ham radio licence and are looking for some praxis in your life, maybe you could look into a new anti-fascist hobby of doxing ham radio fascists.
Let's lower it just a bit further. Here's some info on how to listen for free online:
https://www.hamradiosecrets.com/listen-to-ham-radio-online.html
Someone tweet this shit at a streamer
There are broadly two types of ham radio: VHF/UHF and HF. VHF/UHF are relatively short range. Think walkie-talkies on steroids. On the order of miles, or maybe topping out at tens of miles if someone has stuck a repeater on a tower or mountain. The easiest license to get only gets you VHF/UHF. And that's almost certainly what these people are using.
To listen to people near you, you'd either need to find one of those web receivers near you, or get your own. The rtl-sdr sticks are cheap and there's plenty of information online on how to use them.
I wonder if you could automate the process with voice recognition looking out for certain keywords