29 Jul
2021
29 Jul
'21
12:29 a.m.
On 7/28/21 7:13 PM, Antonios Chariton (daknob) via 44Net wrote:
I also understand the people that really can’t pay
$100 or want to add more cables and make a mess in their living room. I have friends in
the hobby where even a purchase of $25 can require months of savings and making sure that
what you buy is the right thing. And this is typically underrepresented groups, or young
people. The same groups we want to bring onboard, and we complain are absent and “not
interested”.
There are adults today that never had a computer in their life. They only had tablets and
most commonly phones. We should definitely allow them to use our network.
Sure but for that you don't need to renumber.
You only need to make available some common services like OpenVPN access to the network.
We have been doing so for years here and it works.
You ask for and get an IP address allocated, receive a .ovpn file, install OpenVPN
software, click on it and go.
Routing to the entire AMPRnet, via your existing ISP, no matter if that is via an ISP
router or via 4G or whatever.
When even that is too difficult, you are not the type of person we should try to get on
board the network.
For sure it does not cost any money other than what is required to buy a computer and have
internet.
That also is the reason why we must be careful to set that as our goal: it has nothing to
do with amateur radio,
other than that the applicant needs to have an amateur radio callsign.
Locally we prefer it when people at least do something amateur radio related.
Rob