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...and second, although it is a satellite receiver and dish antenna setup, it is not a standard receiver. It is, or appears to be from the description (I could not find any schematics) instead what is called an SDR (Software Defined Receiver) so you can not simply cobble one together from standard parts."
Thanks! I attempted to look those three devices up now and only see the PCTV 461e from foreign sources. Expensive, too!
Outernet (discussion forum) Content Request: survival/preparedness resources
https://discuss.outernet.is/t/content-request-survival-preparedness-resources/1090
Looks like they're interested. It's all the rage.
The "Lantern" is slower, but it's cheap. Very slow but potentially useful, if nothing else were available.
I suppose that an occasional file TX (tech. info for a friend, for example) would be legal for amateur radio using appropriate parts of the permitted band plan, but only station-to-station or BBS with no advertising or QRM, of course. And mail carried the old fashioned way (paper, station to station...
Until then, it might be a good idea to each stash away our own tech. libraries...even print important tech. material to paper for storage.
Thanks for the reminder. I had thrown around a few concepts a few years back but put it on the back burner since I have so many other projects ongoing. Simply; hook up two modems on a couple of dedicated freqs as a simple LocalNet setup. Oh, you’d still have to fake the Tip, Ring, and Dialtone to get the modem functioning, but then again PBX software has been around a long time and it might be fun to play with that and get something reliable going between a group of Hams for example. At 56kB max you would not be able to quickly send a vid file, but for a general BBS or Chat setup I think it would be perfect.
Primarily for local use, some long-distance could be set up also if desired with appropriate planning.