i wonder if i'll ever get back to ham radio
it's sucks that callsigns are doxxing
@amphetamine
right!?
but if i told you my callsign you'd have my full deadname and home address
@catoutofbed @amphetamine you _can_ register to a different address, and i want to say it can be a P.O. box
but yeah, it’s hilariously bad
@r4v5 @amphetamine
tbh it's the fact it's forever linked to a name i no longer wish to be called
@catoutofbed Wait, they are? I thought you just made them up.
@witchfynder_finder
nope
federally assigned
the strings themselves identify roughly where you're from and you can just look them up online
@catoutofbed Oh wow. I had no idea. Is there like a way to figure out what yours would be online or is there, like, A Whole Process? I'm kinda curious about mine now.
@witchfynder_finder
they're just like licence ids basicly
so like if you had
kd1xyz
k is one of the united states prefixs (the other being n i think)
d is block d
1 says new england
xyz is just a sequential id
@catoutofbed @witchfynder_finder IIRC there is a provision for vanity call signs though
@queerhackerwitch @witchfynder_finder
yup
whole set of stuff around that
@queerhackerwitch @witchfynder_finder @catoutofbed yup, i've got a 1x3 myself, just took a lot of waiting because digital applications wait until any conflicting mail applications are given time to make their way to the FCC.
@mallaidh @catoutofbed @witchfynder_finder Maybe after I get my license straightened out I’ll see if I can get it changed to something ending in FOX
@catoutofbed rather wish there were a different way to use the citizen's radio bands. like, a BBS you tune in to xD
@kara
i mean
cb still exists
no one uses it but
and you don't need a licence to recieve
@catoutofbed oh, I mean, like, with actual serial transmission of data, not having to deal with the argot of radio (voice or code or whatever)
@kara
ah
packet radio?
that has pretty wide support
@catoutofbed that's garbage, it should be like mech pilot names