Evening friends of the gopherverse. I'm listening to cev's

	Evening friends of the gopherverse. I'm listening to cev's
	show tonight which always puts me into a good writing mood.
	Thanks, cev, for your show!

	You all thought I was going to not write this month, eh?
	Well, I thought about it. There's just a bunch of things
	happening all at once and it's overwhelming to tackle that
	and even write a modest few words here. The Zaibatsu has
	turned into quite the hopping place, and I'm impressed
	with the sheer talent housed here. I'm kinda ashamed of
	my crudely wordsmithed entries, finger pecking on the
	keyboard, not double clutching like I should. Furthermore,
	the Circumluniverse* [1] is growing, what with the Red
	Consensus [2] and Ryumin's Dome [3]. And then there's
	cosmic.voyage [4], run by tomasino of gopher.black fame.
	Exciting times, indeed!

	But I'm not here just to exchange formalities and all that,
	there's work to be done. And tonight's topic is dear to me.
	A couple months ago, cat mentioned about baudpunk [5], and
	described what the term meant. That really got the ol'
	cogitator chugging about some ideas I had but were lacking a
	term. So here's my attempt at adding to the lexicon, just to
	see if it sticks.

	Where baudpunk centered around modem culture of the 90s,
	funkpunk is the present and the future of leveraging radio
	technology for individual and communal self sufficiency.
	It's equal parts solarpunk and amateur radio, minus
	requesting governmental permission to operate. And in this
	era of increasing spectrum privatization, the public needs
	to maintain their claim on the little we have left, lest we
	cede the remainder only to be leased back to us.

	For the US, this means Part 15 is our playground. I have to
	acknowledge the efforts of freifunk [6] which is part of my
	inspiration. My todo list includes a point to point link
	with family about 1km away, and community mesh networking.
	WiFi libraries, pirateboxes, and SDR exploration are in on
	the fun too. But we aren't talking about just 2.4GHz+ ISM
	bands. I'd love to see something like FaradayRF [7] be
	Part 15 certified for 900MHz fun. Or how about some
	microbroadcasting via AM/FM?

	I could go on, but I think you get the idea. As solderpunk
	[8] says, "host something!" Maybe for funkpunk, it will be
	"Hey you! Transmit something!"

	[*] or should it be Circumlunarverse?

	Tags: #welcome #funkpunk

	[0] Text-only version
	[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/universe
	[2] gopher://consensus.circumlunar.space
	[3] gopher://dome.circumlunar.space
	[4] gopher://cosmic.voyage
	[5] gopher://baud.baby/0/phlog/fs20180909.txt
	[6] https://freifunk.net
	[7] https://faradayrf.com
	[8] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/hey-you-host-someth…