Presented at
HOPE Number Six (2006),
July 22, 2006, 10 a.m.
(60 minutes)
Sometimes cell phones, telephone lines, and Internet connectivity just aren't good choices for communications. Whether those networks are down, unreliable, too expensive, or you just don't trust carriers or ISPs to not hand over all your communications records to Big Brother's data-mining program, there ARE alternatives. Amateur (ham) radio, GMRS, FRS, MURS, Part 15, and other technologies can provide free and effective short-range or even global voice/data communications. This panel will explain how you can use the magic of radio to take control over your communications.
Presenters:
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Skip Arey
Skip Arey is the author of Radio Monitoring: The How-To Guide. He is regularly published in various radio hobby communications magazines. Skip is a life member of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and holds an extra class amateur (ham) radio license and a commercial FCC general radio operator's license. He is particularly interested in QRP - the art and science of communicating great distances via amateur radio using extremely low power.
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Joseph Battaglia
Joseph Battaglia aka "Redbird," is a regular on the Off The Hook radio show and has been involved in the New York City hacker community for several years. Last year, he presented at the European hacker conferences What The Hack! and the Chaos Communication Congress. His interest in technology is diverse and includes the fields of RF engineering, open source software, and security. Joseph currently holds an extra class amateur radio license and is active within the ham radio community. He is working in information security this summer for a Fortune 100 company. Joseph is entering his junior year pursuing an electrical engineering degree at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Bernie S.
as bernieS
bernieS has been hacking telephones, radios, computers, and government authorities for far too long - sometimes pushing the envelope too far. In 1995 he was imprisoned for a year and a half by the Secret Service for merely possessing communications hardware and software they claimed was "dangerous" - and for blowing the cover of some of their special agents. Eventually the government admitted "there were no victims in the offense" and that they were more concerned about his exposing their covert activities. Bernie continues to investigate and report on communications technologies and on government activities the authorities would rather keep hidden.
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LinH
LinH has held an amateur radio license since 1990 but has been involved in radio in various forms since the age of five. He has worked with a BSRG repeater group that maintains 11 repeaters as well as atlantafreenet.org. Lin also cowrote the 900mhz band plan for the South Eastern Repeater Association. This band plan has been adopted in whole or in part by 70 percent of the repeater coordinating bodies in the U.S.
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