Hamnet pop isn’t a radio repeater. It’s a pop for hamnet. We call the 44 net hamnet here and it runs on wireless links. 

It’s a complete wireless mesh network with many p2p links providing network connectivity to other hams/repeaters etc.

So just adding a subdomain before a callsign isn’t going to cut the needs.

73

PD3T

On 15 Jun 2024, at 14:27, Eric Johnson <micromashor@gmail.com> wrote:



Chris: Sounds good, thank you.

Terence,

I am not the most familiar with hamnet, although at some point, there has to be a ham involved, right? The way repeaters typically work here is that a ham or group of hams speaks to a building owner and asks for an agreement to host a repeater and a little bit of rooftop space. That repeater is then usually referred to by the callsign of the ham(s) who maintain it and have the agreement with the building owner.

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but does hamnet usually work in a similar way? If so, couldn't the site be named pi90ibm.pd3t.ampr.org, assuming you are the maintainer of that site?

If there isn't a ham involved at any step:

- How is it legal use of the amateur bands?

- Is it really a ham radio network at that point?

Eric AE0JE

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024, 6:01 AM Terence Theijn <terence@theijn.nl> wrote:

I see a lot of issues with hamnet pops without clubcallsings and are just commercial building owners willing to host the housing for a hamnet pop to extend the amprnet wireless network range.

You do want those site to be recognizable some of those sites can even host services like remote sdrs.

For example ibm is willing to host a pop for network coverage. To make it recognizable you can name it pi90ibm. This aint an official callsign. How is one going to verify that?

Did you think about those?

Regards

PD3T

On 15 Jun 2024, at 09:12, Chris via 44net <44net@mailman.ampr.org> wrote:

A copy of the official PDF download from the ULS site of the club’s call sign;