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Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails (www.wired.com)
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[–] gothic_lemons 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait I can get a fucking radio and a license and fucking talk to astronauts in fucking space?!?

[–] MrShankles 4 points 1 month ago

Sure can. You can also download weather images from overhead-passing NOAA Satellites. There's actually a lot of cool stuff you can do with radio, in general

[–] zigmus64 1 points 1 month ago

Yup… never read up on how to actually do it, but I know it’s a thing.