See it live at NEAR-Fest → near-fest.com
XCL.IS is amateur cellular — real ham radio LTE on ham bands. A project building practical ham-radio cellular (amateur LTE) and IMS on the amateur spectrum and licensing I can get my hands on.
I went to NEARFest on both days, Friday and Saturday, to demonstrate 4G LTE over ham radio frequencies, under ham radio rules.
On Thursday night the truck suspension snapped, so I didn’t get a chance to do my final dress rehearsal of the demo, and that ended up sinking me for most of the first day.
Then it rained. But it got better.
I was asked if I had any thoughts about spectrum for amateur experimentation on LTE.
Yes.
Five phones actually on the network
It’s been some time. Let’s do a real demo.
It operates under ham radio rules, on ham radio frequencies, for ham radio purposes, by ham radio operators. What else would it be?
Once the spectrum’s handled, the usual regulatory concerns are encryption and identification.
This is my demo setup for NEARfest April 2025.
Ham LTE is an accident of international spectrum allocations.
Amateur LTE has to comply with the regulations. Here I discuss the way a USA ham can get on the air.
This is the set of details for my LTE operations at NEARfest May 2nd and 3rd, 2025.
These are the remaining bits that I need to do before NEARFest in a week and some change.
Ham LTE needs a way to dial callsigns. Here you go!
We need a specification for ham radio use of LTE.
Here’s a first-draft, I’m versioning it as v1 rc.
Time for an update. Where are we today?
The following link describes a way to easily get a root shell on your Baicells Nova227 eNodeB.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I got you an amateur cellular network community, I hope you like it.