Ham Radio for Hackers at HOPE XV

Some people consider ham radio operators to be the original hackers. In this talk, Dan Romanchik, KB6NU, will discuss some of the cool development projects that ham radio hackers are working on and talk about how you can get your own hacker, errrrr ham radio license.1

This talk was presented at HOPE XV at St. John’s University in New York City on July 12, 2024.

The slides from this talk are published in KB6NU’s There is HOPE for amateur radio blog post.

You can check out all the talks from HOPE XV on the 2600’s YouTube channel. The channel has videos from all of the HOPE conferences dating back to 1994.2


  1. “HOPE XV (2024): Ham Radio for Hackers (Download)”, 2600, Accessed November 24 2024, https://store.2600.com/products/hope-xv-2024-ham-radio-for-hackers-download↩︎

  2. “Video: Ham Radio for Hackers at HOPE XV”, KB6NU’s Ham Radio Blog, Accessed November 24 2024, https://www.kb6nu.com/video-ham-radio-for-hackers-at-hope-xv/↩︎