OK, we do not speak about same users : you speak about population and I about emcomm teams. For sure, emcomm teams have to listen to population (I think about PMR446, LPD433, CB27, E channel…) in voice mode, but they need to build internal radio infrastructure to share information. Ribbit could be a brick of this solution :

• easy to deploy
• without specific hardware (compatible with what every amateur radio already has)
• high density of information transmitted by spectrum used
• logging messages
• geolocation of messages
• no internet connection needed

Actually, EmComm, in many situations, is based on licenced software such as VARA running only on Windows with a bought key. I think it’s time to try open source software.

SOTA/POTA is generally short and sweet QSOs

Completely agree! SOTA/POTA are the best chat: short but very polite.

Very impressed by your 10GHz result !

My best DX on 2m was 362km in FT8.

I used my HF setup (FTdx10 + a Raspberry Pi) with a transverter (28 > 144 MHz) outing 15 watts and a power amplifier to push signal to 50 watts.

On 6m band, I’ve reached 1600km

I think my longest distance is 17,000 km (10,500 miles) between QRA and FK8HM in New Caledonia.

It was in FT8 with 80 watts.

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