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I've had an idea like this in my head for awhile now. One use case, you're at home and something just happened, large car accident, loud noise, etc and you want
by loader 10y ago
I've had an idea like this in my head for awhile now.
One use case, you're at home and something just happened, large car accident, loud noise, etc and you want to be able to chat with the people around you while sitting on your couch.
When stuff happens around me when I'm sitting at home I find twitter to be too slow to update and it has a lack of information anyways.
But then you're just dealing with the same network effects that twitter is having trouble with.
- twothamendment 10y agoHam radio works for me. The power went out a few weeks ago. In the time it took me to walk across the room and turn on the radio they were already talking about it. I didn't bother to transmit, I didn't need to ask. In the next few minutes I heard reports from across the area, who had power, who didn't. It was way faster than waiting for news on facebook. I had a similar experience when there was a large amount of smoke blowing through. Was it something close or from a neighboring state? Ham radio is pretty simple and you can get started for $50 (radio and test). What does it take? Check out http://hamstudy.org http://hamstudy.org (no affiliation, just a happy user).