I've found that ham radio is a decent hobby that robots might like.
>$25 VHF/UHF radio
>$15 study guide for ham exam
>$15 exam fee
So you can get started for around $55 dollars.
You meet lots of people who like to build stuff but don't have the SJW drama like they do at hackerspaces.
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Or maybe get an SDR, make it into an IMSI catcher, and harass people with it.
Recall trying this a long long time ago. I can't hold a conversation for shit though, eventually it always land in quiet awkwardness.
On another note, once I ended up listening to a radio conversation between two truckers going down the highway on my clock radio.
why do you need to pay money to use a radio
>I can't hold a conversation for shit though, eventually it always land in quiet awkwardness.
You can go on a "net", which is a meeting of people where they take turns and generally they have a topic where you can talk but not have to talk too long. It's like having a group of people you hang out with regularly.
>why do you need to pay money to use a radio
You don't need to pay to listen. But there's limited bandwidth and corporations are willing to pay a lot to use portions of the spectrum so I'm happy that they let me use part of it for relatively next to nothing. The ham license lasts for 10 years before you have to renew it.
>ham exam
not needed, the radio functions as intended out of the box.
Thought about it, even that exact radio in Ur jpg, But I live in the UK, police communications are encrypted, and most radio shit switched to digital or even worse encrypted digital effectively putting an end to a once gret hobby of snooping on nearby niggas and 5.0 before they bust your door down in a dawn weed den raid.
Fucking Orwellian.
Those little baofengs are the shit for the price.
>tfw have been thinking of getting a license since years
>tfw still havent done it because no money to purchase those high end equipments
Digital modes will attract more attention from robots, op. FT-8.
If you are caught with a transmitter without a license it will be confiscated.
I dont even think the average robot is autistic enough to get into this shit
ITT most anons missing the point- the license is a key to a door which literally opens up possibility for you to be a useful person, but by extension usually never have to step up to do anything real like disaster relief- so ideal for a robot in that it gives them legitimate access to mess with the fabric of the universe if they so wish as radio experimentation is what brought us GSM, UMTS, WCDMA, Bluetooth, RFID, to name a few things. Started with amateur experiments.
The FCC Auxiliary may hunt you down for sport. They do it for free.
I snoop on a women's clothing boutique near me, funny as fuck how predatory they are in their sales tactics.
what about analog television?
since the national shutdown, all of those frequencies are unused.
maybe any robots with a camera and with a bit of engineering skill can build a low power analog transmitter (or converter) and start a little show?
im a fucking idiot and i dont know how this works desu
>>On another note, once I ended up listening to a radio conversation between two truckers going down the highway on my clock radio.
That sounds like it would be rather comfy to listen to. I used to tune into a teamspeak of a dogfighting server of a flight sim and listen to all the chatter going on while people were calling for help, telling their whereabouts, saying what they were attacking, ect. It was strangely cosy.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to do it unless you're licensed, and if you are, you can't talk about ANYTHING because there are rules about it and the SJW HAM people report you for anything.
My hobby is fucking around with Android devices.
It's really easy to get your license.
It's all multiple-choice questions and they legit let you see the entire question bank to study from. They pick 35 questions out of the 400+ in the bank.
how do you harass with your IMSI?
Radio direction finding is an excellent pursuit. Whether be it as fox or hunter.
Burners (linear amplifiers) and grotesque output harmonics.
>CB
>can't hold a conversation for shit
Digital modes or just listen. I do a lot of the latter.
websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/m.html
4625 KHz
AM
websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/m.html
6425 KHz AM
Woah, I really like this idea
You can do it with an amateur radio license and not get busted: