52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2026 - Week 5: Use HAMNET!

Challenge for 2026-01-26 - 2026-02-01

Category: 🖥️ - Difficulty: 🟠

Use HAMNET!

Can you get access to the HAMNET? What services did you find useful? How did you get access?

Toots mentioning this challenge

DateUserUser ScoreStatusToot Summary & Link
January 12, 2026 20:32 UTCDJ5CW@social.darc.de3Working on it...#hamchallenge HC05 - Use HAMNET! This is something I should have done a long time ago already - especially since I have line of sight to the Olympiaturm in Munich, which hosts DB0TVM (picture shows the view from my flat). However, according to hamnetdb.net it is currently under renovation... https://hamnetdb.net/index.cgi?q=db0tvm - I will observe the status. Would be much nicer to access the hamnet via radio rather than some VPN... #hamradio #hamnet @hamchallenge
January 15, 2026 22:24 UTCchemichael@mastodon.hams.social5Working on it...Googled HAMNET…I suppose that doesn’t count as using? HC05 #HRWB @hamchallenge
January 26, 2026 19:48 UTCDJ5CW@social.darc.de3Success!#hamchallenge Week 5: Use HAMNET. OK, I don't know what I am doing, but it only took 5 minutes to get started on #hamnet with #wireguard thanks to https://vpn.hamnet.network/w/de/ @hamchallenge #HC05S
January 27, 2026 04:30 UTCmischk@bunt.social4Success!The nearest access point to Hamnet is only 1.6 km away as measured in a straight line, but i am on the second floor with many houses in between, so I am unable to establish a radio connection. I connected to Hamnet via VPN and browsed around a bit. The web part seems a bit like the early Internet, with many private or club sites and broken links. I wish I could add a personal website, hosted on a Pi, to Hamnet. HC05S @hamchallenge #hamchallenge #amateurradio
January 28, 2026 19:52 UTCDJ3CE@social.darc.de2Success!Since I saw this years #hamchallenge s I was awaiting this week: From my QTH I have a good LOS to DB0FLX and had set up a Ubiquity device together with a Raspberry Pi for routing into the Hamnet from my local network some time ago. For HC05S I looked at some tracroutes to see the involved links and used APRS, DX-cluster and MQTT via HAMNET(-Servers) and right now think about using MQTT as a chat… @hamchallenge

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