All About Starlink and Direct-To-Cell with

[@vicrod74]

I love when sysadmins and ham operators get together. You get the best of both worlds! Radio and Computers! Good Show!

[@Truthdriven40]

That’s Right brother! 73s

[@Bill-HRT]

Jason! J Cristina was one of my main places I did research when getting into Starlink. Thanks for the video. See you out there. 73 de Bill

[@HamRadio2]

Awesome

[@tomedgar4375]

Great collaboration with JCristina!

[@HamRadio2]

Glad you liked it!

[@Qflyer990]

Also don’t forget that with the newer iPhones you can send a free text message or location update for free via satellite. I used it yesterday to send a text while in the mountains, worked great!

[@CatDaddySteve]

On the newest phones You have almost zero privacy, so long as You don't mind your phone listening and tracking 24/ 7 😊

[@DevinAWhiting]

Knowledg sharing is key to helping USA.please start help getting the word out .we need like minded people.

[@RonN5HYH]

Good show, Found another channel to watch.

[@ericsolomon9522]

100% Watch Joe. GREAT information source. Has helped me Immensely. You 2 MUST do More of these! Thank You JASON - your channel 100% trained me for my HAM Exams. Now looking to upgrade to Extra. NEED A VIDEO for that !!!! W4EPS

[@HamRadio2]

Awesome

[@royrobinson4636]

Jason, this video just popped up tonight 12-24-24 8pm (California Time). I have two version 2 *Starlink systems, one RV/Roam ($150/month) and one Residential ($120/month). I've been following jcristina for the past 3+ years, Joseph is on top of everything *Starlink. 😎

[@HamRadio2]

@@royrobinson4636 yeah I interviewed him a couple of weeks ago, posting the interview this week

[@MikeNie1]

I watch you both!

[@HamRadio2]

Thanks

[@Truthdriven40]

I’M a ham radio operator and I’ve been one for about 12 or 13 years, but there is another way to communicate using a carrier wave high altitudes right above your head. There is 5000 W if you ever are at high altitude in a plane you can stick your hand out and you’ll get this buzz on your hand, but that’s the electricity that is up in the air so you can send a message Using less than 1/10 of a watt , and then the atmosphere amplify it up to anywhere in the world maybe it takes three or four minutes, but it does work. You don’t need a Cell Phone tower and you don’t need a satellite. A pastor I know I won’t mention the name but uses those for emergency communications between family members.. we’re a really big church family is all I will say !! God bless and 73s

[@hankfox4170]

Rodgers Comunication is Starlink DTC in Canada. Other countries include T-Mobile: The first and only US wireless provider to offer Starlink satellite service Optus: In Australia One New Zealand: In New Zealand KDDI: In Japan Salt: In Switzerland Entel: In Chile and Peru

[@timspero]

Jason, one thing to keep in mind is with your Starlink plan your uploads and downloads are de-prioritized compared to people that have a permanent plan. When I first signed up for starlink I had to get the Rv plan for my cabin, even though I was staying stationary my speeds especially upload would fluctuate a lot. Once my area opened up and I was able to become permanent and switch to residential without touching anything, my upload download and reliability increased. The other thing that was touched on is when you're in these off-grid places until all the satellites have lasers. Your pop may be really far away from where you're at

[@HamRadio2]

If they're de-prioritizing plans and accounts, that makes my point even more valid

[@RobertoRubio-ij3ms]

Maybe someone else mentioned this but jitter is more important than internet speed. Jitter is the average differential between network pings. So if your connection is fast but latency varies a lot (30ms, 60ms,40,ms,30ms again), that instaility makes your connection unusable. A ham radio analogy (maybe) is like having a great radio, 100 watts output but bad propagation.

[@RobertoRubio-ij3ms]

Starlink user and networks/server guy here. Starlink is my daily driver.

[@KE4NAB]

Im actually on time!!!

[@KB1UIF]

Just to save confusion. T-Mobile apparently refer to their Direct connect service as TDC, not DTC, but it connects to the DTC network.

[@HamRadio2]

www.starlink.com/business/direct-to-cell

[@KB1UIF]

@HamRadio2 This is the problem with using acronyms and not full names of tech.

[@dukejer3073]

Maybe I missed it but when J.Cristina talks about packet level redundancy over multiple channels where is the endpoint he is putting the packets back together at? Is this terminating on another raspberry pi somewhere else? AWS? or some other system geographically located elsewhere?

[@dukejer3073]

Can you do a program on using unlicensed ISM bands at the maximum power at each band? I know meshtastic uses 900 Mhz. I know there are people trying 4.6 mW at 22 meter but I would be interested with your input.

[@zolomolo-b1h]

What Ketchup has to do with Jason?

[@4TheRecord]

31:10 They're blackmailing Windows 10, users into paying for yearly End of Support Updates. I don't think anyone is going to care about the updates after November and will just continue using Windows 10, until they buy a new computer in their own time. There's still plenty of systems that have at least 5 to 7 years of life still in them. Windows 10, is going to be around for a while updates or not.

[@Ray.Marx.67]

He's wrong, you have to sign up to get it thru T-Mobile, you have to "ask" to be able to use it.

[@willross6468]

If he had it in airplane mode except for the 5g modem then how does he know the connection went through DTC and not 5g

[@Ray.Marx.67]

You're wrong, HAM license doesn't cover GMRS, it's a different license and CB, like MURS, doesn't require a license none of which does a HAM license cover, just that, depending on how many times you've paid them and passed their 35-50 question tests, depends on what frequencies they can broadcast on, for the most part.

[@Ray.Marx.67]

My complaint has always been, why, since radio's are digital these days, can't they make it legal to make a CB/MURS/GMRS radio, that you have to have a GMRS license to use, that can transmit at maximum power levels only on the individual frequencies, with the ability to change and using frequencies above human hearing, (or below,) there's plenty of bandwidth to do digital on GMRS too. (Frequencies can be turned on or off to allow transmit or not by the user, and come standard with the higher power turned off or the ability to use "GMRS" frequencies, resorting it to an FRS radio, without putting in your licence ID (WXYZ123 for ex.) and having it self-verify, via secured GPS transmission to FTC database to check if it's valid or not, as a one time check, unless the device is reset.)

[@HamRadio2]

Who's wrong?

[@ts440s]

Basically the final nail in the coffin for ham radio unless ham radio does a 180 and starts to get their head out of their hole and focus on one main digital network and make all mode high power mobile rigs because the chances of you not being able to connect or not having satellites functioning will be extremely rare.

[@tomedgar4375]

Just ordered a mini yesterday. In part, this was to support Elon for his service to our country with the new administration.

[@HamRadio2]

Agreed

[@robertm1672]

J.C. is the starlink goto. While your experience did not work perfectly, you were also working it on the fringe of its abilities, so of course you wouldn't have the best of performance. Kinda arrogant attitude you had about it when the real issue is user error. There is no cell service, no internet at all in my region for 45 miles. Starlink is the only way to make a call, in fact, we v/voip all calls, while streaming movies and other things simultaneously. Starlink works, when used as intended, within its parameters. Otherwise its like saying ham radio doesnt work because i cant get a signal from the local repeaters on the other side of the mountain range from my ranch. Granted ive put up linked repeaters since then to ger aeound it.

[@HamRadio2]

It sounds like you don't understand how satellites work. If your Starlink dish has clear line-of-sight to the sky, which mine did, it should work much better than it did. Tell me how that was user error. I'll wait...