ROOPHLOCH

Today's post is a little bit different. It will be followed by another post with more detail, as this is painfully slow.

I am writing to meet the ROOPHLOCH challenge. For the uninformed, as I was, it means the Remote Outdoor Off-Grid Phlogging Challenge. I think they need to revisit their letters in their name, but they call it ROOPHLOCH. The goal is to get outside. The secondary goal is to make your usual gemini or gopher blog post while using some unusual or atypical method. When my brother, LibreHacker, told me about it, I was like: "I'm in."

Now everybody has done this while using wifi in their back yard. Too easy.

Some have apparently tried Bluetooth, pen and paper transcription, and a few other "unusual" methods. Not techy enough for me.

So, this *may* have been done before, but looking at *some* of the old entries I didn't see this. So I thought I'd try it, and if you are reading this, it worked.

I am a ham radio operator. So, I set up two 2 meter radios, two signalink USB devices, direwolf, tncattach, and established an ethernet connection over the airwaves at 147.2 MHz and a baud rate of 1200 b/s between my pickup truck radio and the home ham radio computer. Yes, that is 1.2 kb/s. As in way less than a mb/s. As in, feel the pain of slowness as I keep writing about how painfully slow this connection is.

Completely disregarding all sense of cyber safety, I made a dummy account and opened telnet between the two, then using ssh keys could ssh from one computer to the next in my home network and type this on the server remotely. It is all I can do to keep this painfully slow internet connection live, but I used it to make this post.

Stay tuned for a future post with way more detail, written from the sanity of the internet conections in the mb/s speeds.

Linux - keep it simple.

EDITOR'S NOTE: There is nothing wrong with the "simple" or "Easy" way others have approached this challenge. It just wasn't a challenge unless it was technical for me. Also, I edited this post after the fact because it was too hard to edit over the slow internet connection I was using.