Category: Licence-Free Radio
Show us your boxes: the repeaters of CarinthiaMesh and the people behind them
Just before midnight on 22 August, a request went out in the Carinthian MeshCore channel: show us your repeaters. What came back is a stock-take in pictures: 37 active sites built from garden lamps, 18650 cells and a fair amount of climbing.
126.9 Kilometres on Half a Watt: How Carinthia's Mesh Network Grew to 32 Sites in Two Weeks
126.9 kilometres from the Koralpe into Slovenia, sent with half a watt. There is no provider and no mandate behind it, just eight people carrying boxes up mountains. A stocktake with numbers, and with what the numbers do not say.
MeshCore: Radio Without a Mobile Network. Now Is the Moment to Join In
There are moments when you can get in on a radio project early enough that your own participation still changes something. With MeshCore , that moment is now. The network is growing, the map still has…
FunkParcours: Radio Games for Everyone – Even with PMR, Tested at HTL Villach
Hello everyone, Ferdl here again. Today with something that genuinely delights me, because it brings together two things that rarely sit at the same table: real radio operation and a bit of fun and games .…
CB Radio in 2026: Written Off but Still Alive
CB radio — Citizens Band Radio — was a mass phenomenon in the 1970s and 80s. Millions of people worldwide were on the 27 MHz band long before mobile phones and the internet became ubiquitous. Today,…
Radio Awards for Everyone: Six Awards from Carinthia — Open to CB and PMR Too
Radio awards are a staple of amateur radio: collect contacts, meet certain conditions, earn a certificate. If you don't hold a ham licence, you're usually left out. A new award programme from Carinthia, Austria, takes a…
PMR vs. Meshtastic vs. CB Radio: Three Licence-Free Radio Systems Compared
3 January 2026, Berlin-Lichterfelde: an arson attack on the power grid knocked out 45,000 households – for days. Mobile phone towers went down, landlines dead, internet gone. Thousands of people were left with no way to…
PMR and CB Radio: No Licence Needed – A Guide to Licence-Free Radio
Not everyone has an amateur radio licence – and that's perfectly fine. Yet there are situations where radio communication is practical, useful, or even life-saving: on a hike in the mountains, skiing with the family, organising…
