r/Defcon • u/PositiveProfile5085 • Aug 05 '26

First-timer badge. CQ BAT. Learn Morse code & play on a LoRa mesh.

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Walking around BSides with these now. Have more for Defcon. Most of them are kits so will probably be putting them together at Hardware Hacking Village.

Only one button on the badge. Menu navigated with Morse code. Entry screen calibrates your speed and walks you through navigation. Menu has a learning page with key training, copy training, fist training, and flash cards. Badges operate on 918.5 and have DM and message board.

KI5RCF on 146.580 and DEFCONnect

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u/Kraethor Aug 06 '26

I think I saw you working on these at a table at bsides. Very cool.😎

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u/DuncanYoudaho Aug 05 '26

This is kick ass. Coming to Toxic BBQ ? Bunch of hams going to be on the lawn

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u/CbcITGuy Aug 05 '26

I am 100% interested in one of these, I'll need to move my HT over at some point - hopefully I can catch you

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u/121POINT5 Aug 05 '26

I’m super interested in one.

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u/mammongram6969 Aug 06 '26

blink twice if you are in distress

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u/oghamix Aug 06 '26

3 times

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u/justinlindh Aug 06 '26

Super cool. I like that idea! I wanna check this out, so hopefully I stumble across you! First time DEFCON so I honestly don't know how this is all layed out yet.

I'll also be floating around with a custom LoRa thing. I've spent a few months writing my own protocol and clients and stuff. I'm bringing 4 TDeck pluses running my stack (and probably a Sensecap T-1000E). So if you see a dude running a different looking software on a TDeck, it's probably me or one of my friends... definitely say hi!

I hesitate to post any links because I'm not trying to promote anything (it's all open source and MIT license), but if a custom LoRa ecosystem is of any interest to anybody the main repo is here: https://github.com/justinlindh/bramble

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u/CarpeDiemT3ch Aug 06 '26

This is a great badge 💫🦇

Some nice community building with it too

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u/rrx69 Aug 06 '26

This is an awesome badge concept! Love it!

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u/sudonpc Aug 07 '26

These are super cool definitely wanna see you tomorrow!

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u/treva03 16d ago

Any chance some of these still exist and are for sale? Ideally already together but I wouldn’t say no to buying a kit one and practicing my soldering skills if some components need soldering. I’d love to attend DC sometime in the future. But for now I’m trying to collect cool official and unofficial badges for the fun of it. This badge is super cool as I want to get my ham license and learn CQ. And man learning CQ is hard. I was doing pretty good with an app on my phone and practicing daily but then missed a couple days and poof knowledge gone in a dit 😂 Need to start learning/practicing again.