Ben Cotton

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Lafayette, Indiana

Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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Bandwidth increases with increasing frequency (at the expense of range). A lot of ham radio operators use the "high frequency" bands (<50 MHz) for long distance communication. However, APRS is commonly used on the 144-148MHz bands, which is the most commonly-used band for local (e.g. metro area) communication.

That's something I've never really considered being an en-US user. If you're willing, I'd love for you to write an article about this for Opensource.com. Email me (bcotton AT opensource DOT com) if you're interested.