This ENCRYPTED Off Grid Communicator Is Totally Private! 

Great day rog!

You're lucky to have a friend like Andy who will participate in stuff like this. I don't have any local friends that will play radios with me.

I can't be the only one who had anxiety at you putting your radio gear on the railing over the water.

I never noticed before how much you both look like the police when you're together and playing with radios :)

I had flashbacks of my blackberry mouse ball thing going out lol

Having a large amount of commercial experience with deploying LoRaWAN myself, this is hugely interesting to me and I will definitely be checking Ripple out.

I absolutely enjoy watching you together testing out radios and other radio tech. Please make more videos together thank you 👍👍

the problem with this is that its easy to detect because it doesnt change the frequency, theres one radio that jumps 20ms which makes it hard to locate. thats good because in a lot of countries its illegal as encrypted and without license. its definitely better than normal ham radio but its still not optimal for shtf scenarios. Great video, i love to educate myself on ways to communicate with new devices and software, great video!

When the baseline drops 🕺

Thanks Lewis, very interesting. Also interesting: appearing particularly during the outro, is the Millennium Mills building. It's in Orbital's video for The Box from... 1996?

great to see both yours and Andy's perspectives on the same topic

Your 3D printing is 80s/90s sci-fi hand prop cool! I love that look.

Nice experimentation video. Happy Easter, God bless.

Thanks 👍 I love Andy's channel, too ❣

I did my Work Experience at Peter Chilvers' windsurfing centre, which was on the slipway of Royal Victoria Docks. It was a blast. This was late 80's, it has changed pretty dramatically since then! I bet you don't see massive rats hanging out near the cranes these days.

dude thats a business 😊 be blessed sir ❤

That's cool, better to have e-ink display use much less battery to make the unit smaller

I love this channel every episode has something interesting but I especially like the episodes with other people in them like this one. Off to watch Andy's video now 👍

Great video footage of London btw, especially the planes landing at (city?) airport. Makes me want to go back for my next UK holiday 🥰

Wow! Andy Kirby did a video on exactly this subject. What a coincidence, man!

This is pretty cool. Another great video in the books

That's it.. make HIM do all the walking .... ROFLMAO!! :)

Interesting...i have a ham myself, and keep it in an emp bag (just in case, i guess). Looks like something i might add to the collection

77:44 Andy was giving you the finger for making him walk so far.😂

These are neat!

I did my dissertation on building something similar, pretty cool :)

Need a wrist lanyard on that. I was panicking every time you waved it around.

Cheers, going to have to do a lot of watching now….. newbie question mate, so I can limit how much to watch, does this work similarity to how you’ve described meshtastic’s ‘nodes’ forwarding thingy-me-bob tech? In the video you referred to meshtastic, as if it was different (hence my ignorant confusion)

I've got one of these, currently running meshtastic, it does need a major rework to utilise the T-Deck hardware, Ripple looks interesting

Getting Session onto Lora Mesh would be great. Session messaging is one of the free open source truly disposable conversations.

It’s always nice to have a friend who you can go out with and do tests it’s a shame there are not as many young women in the hobbie like myself

Yeeeesssssss meshatstic!!!

Yeah. I would happily pay like $300 or more for a polished plug and play product that could do just that. That’s cool. Still working on wrapping my head around all of the stuff I can do within just ham right now, but that’s an interesting concept for sure.

Im still trying to get to grips with Meshtastic. Is this just a text messaging device❓ Is it the number of nodes determines how far a message can be sent or not❓ What is the max distance you can send from one node to another❓ So if there are many other nodes placed out there can you send a text message sitting at home❓ How do you know which node you are sending to and in what direction❓

There's a large case on Makerworld that will accomodate the 6000mAh battery

Very cool! Would other Ripple hardware out there necessarily function as repeaters, to pass private messages between folks who've gotten out of direct range of each other?

It is often said encryption is against the spirit of ham radio. I personally don't subscribe to this perspective, but while doing research on DMR encryption I read a lot of vitriol for the whole concept of using encryption in amateur settings. I'm assuming this particular implementation is at least legal (most countries ban amateur encryption), but would be curious if any similar conversations are happening around it

Ha ha this was like the DVD Director's Commentary of Andy's vid!

Great stuff. Those glow in the dark cases could be handy for emergency comms. I really like you green case. Very military. 73 M7TUD

Looks similar to Alley Cat's case - a nice wee case. glow in the dark filament might need purchased lol

That's a bloody good zoom on your camera, Lewis. Half a mile away, and sharp as a pin. Impressive. May I ask what camera and lens you use?

HI! this is a very good video but the CDMA&868 frequency can be generally blocked by jammers right is there any other alternative for this

Clicked on random vid from this channel today (Russian pirate one) and subbed because it was interesting, this came up soon after and not disappointed!

You should do a follow up video with more case options and get it sponsored by PCBway with your friend so we can purchase it internationally

You can still collect thoes signals and intercept them 😅

Can you display the RSSI value?

isnt that a straight up Blackberry keyboard? i could feel the texture 😂

Very cool and secure enough for many applications, but what are those aye

Have you seen the sneak preview of the new Meshtastic firmware for the T-Deck that IS all self-contained? They showed it on an Instagram post... It looks preeeettttyyyyy great...!

Have you a link to the Lily Go board and that so people can buy them?

I'd wait a bit before trusting my life on it and see how secure it is in practice. It won't be the first time an encryption scheme got broken by some side-channel or implementation vulnerability. Even if the individual messages are strong encrypted attackers could find a way around that by messing with the communications and protocol and read along anyway.

@RingwayManchester >>> Great video...👍

do you know how to add buzzer to HELTEC® LoRa 32 V3?

So can it still use an intermediate relay like meshtastic or are you limited to t-deck to t-deck range

What's your opinion on the CardPuter? They have a project to turn the CardPuter into a Ripple device but not a Meshtastic device (yet)

Which printer do you have, Lewis?

I'm a bit concerned, I've been hearing and reading a lot about unsafe RF levels off the mesh boards, especially the cheaper ones. I haven't heard you talk about this yet, any thoughts?

how do i get those 😊

What is the full range of frequencies you can use ? Is 915 mhz the upper limit ? Is 868 the low limit ? What is the power output ?

this looks suspiciously like a blackberry curve 🤔

what camera and lens did you use for the zoom?

I'm guessing Ripple is a similar network to Meshtastic? I've not heard of it before, to be honest!

No guessing who supplied the sound track 😁😁

Are these communicating directly to eachother, or do they relay via meshtastic?

So unlike Meshtastic do the devices need to be paired before they can communicate with each other?

Encrochat on a different level.

The screens way to dark and reflective, needs an upgrade, Ripple has potential tho..

neat but with limited range it's kinda eh... need to be able to reach at least 10-15 miles.

FYI: I think DMs over Meshtastic are currently encrypted with the PSK of the channel that both users share. If the only channel is the LongFast then the message is encrypted with AQ== which anyone can decrypt.

If I was to pump a dismal 20 watts of noise on 868 meg how will the local MeshTastic net cope?

Great vid but cant see the link for the software?

Be good if you can do two way audio as well as text

Looked at the thumbnail and instantly thought Blackberry. Click on the video, and that's one fat Blackberry lol.

My Heltec V3 isn't getting any signals or messages aren't being received! I'm in NW London and meshtastic24/7 map says otherwise.. Any help? using stock antenna.

Can you retrieve old messages with this system. And can’t wait for open spaces trial

One time tables generated by a true random source are to my knowledge the only form of encryption that is by definition also genrating a random sequence of values in all asoects egually as random as the table as long as the no prior information between the two parties was exchanged in private and in person and only between two parties at most. No part if the table can be reusused.ever. This means that also this encryption method is undecipherable by any means possible, quantum or infinite time will bot help. It will merely give all possible messages/sequences. And thoae inclufe the full works ifbshakesspeare the bibble and Pi to arbitrary precision. Nullyfyjng the attempt to gain usefull unfo. Also after being used up, it must be physically be destroyed. Not merely erased or writen over with other info as that still leaves some info about the original table. Nowadays datastorage is not that costly anymore, even if in a form of laser etching into fragile materials sacrificing thre data density for certainty of being the completely get rid if the used up info. For plain texts, a llillte table goes a long way. And meetups once in a while are a must anyway.

Lilly go T deck sold out , cases sold out esp sold out sold out everything 😮😂

These devices are very similar to Blackberry phones

Spleenware/Ripple seems to be a one or two man band unlike Meshtastic. Also many of their Github files are 4 years old, so project seems to be semi anbandoned?

Close friend it's better than mate. But come on 😆👍

Oh please don’t give me an excuse to buy another t deck.

Well that's a first On meshtastic, a guy replied to me saying he was over Bridgend at 35,000 feet Turns out he's on a plane, even got the flight number in his username

Can you send messages to email or android apps

its so obscure and private you have no one to talk to 😅

Why dont they just sell this?... like text Walkie Talkies

🤐🍿.... naval history speaks otherwise to rf com's security.... and nowdays the heavy lifting portion can be offloaded to a cloud instance or dedicated hardware, or check any of the recent vids/papers on encryption breaking/modifying being published,

Drug dealers in cities are gonna love this!

What the heck is a "spreading factor"?

Produced by NSA

lol, "a primarily 868mhz" except for all the countries that use 915mhz and 433mhz.

Anyone having issues with T-deck not able to scroll down. I can only scroll left….

Meshtastic is *EASILY TRACKABLE*

I have a slightly jaundiced view of secure comms tech in that it is an open invitation to those who mean no good to stay below the radar. We live in a very dangerous world at many different levels with law enforcement and the security services struggling against a lack of resources and an ever increasing workload. As a law abiding citizen I have never felt a compelling need to be off grid. Just saying.

Nothing suspicious here. Sneaking around city hall with radios and strange communicators :) How often do you get attention from the cops doing stuff like this?

It's all a bit... low tech isn't it? VHF radios for emergency comms, I can get that, but this... All fun and games, but not where I'll put my money.

868 Mhz ?

Criminals be like 👀

basicly useless in a city... and would be also useless in nature all the stones, trees. few miles and it's gone. nice to play for the kids in the garden... this kind of stuff should not be produced. all waste of time.

No technology is truly private. Someone will (or likely probably has) fiund ways to intercept and decrypt messages.

Totally private! Come on. I love this channel but there's an entire industry of encryption professionals out there. Literally one shady human on the mesh defeats the privacy of this system with minimal code. These are toys at best. Edit: apologies for the snarky last line I deleted. But the rest I'm keeping.