Originally Posted by KC2UGV
Absolutely. There's no new bad news under the sun. History may not repeat itself, but it has a definite stutter. My rumination is not about the end of the world or who's to blame for this hell of a fix. Just asking how, if needed, hams might hack past and present to homebrew an alternate internet -- a wireless iMancipated IndyWeb so to speak -- fractionally hosted by its users, everywhere and all but nowhere. Could such a thing be done and defended? Yes, I'm talking through Major Amos Hoople's fez. Will gladly entertain informed dismissals or details sweated amongst yourselves.
I'm an appliance operator who never built anything more than an Ocean Hopper kit and a bunch of little oscillators, amplifiers and simple receivers from scavanged parts. Many of my ham friends have done and do much more. Most all of us, regardless of technical ability or operating prowess, carry on the tradition in great and small ways. Look past the DX pile ups and ten thousand dollar radios, the whackermobiles and all that silly stuff other hams do that we don't. There's a civilized gee-whiz core to our hobby that attracted me in the first place, long before I could begin to explain its appeal. Joining up was like becoming a Junior Faraday, Ohm, Ampere, Henry, part of something that went back centuries and led into, at the time, lower Earth orbit. That's still exciting to me, and might well be sustaining, in a stealthy way, for one and all.
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