This is our disclaimer or terms of use in the plain and simple terms not written by lawyers. Understand this is a private broker built by Nova Radio Systems. We bought equipment and spent countless months, cups of coffee and energy drinks learning to code, configure servers and networking just to make this happen. With that being said, we control it. If you don’t like these terms, don’t use it. If it helps you out great!
Terms are pretty simple. Everyone here in the states is aware of free speech. That free speech ends when the speeches only intended to harass, annoy or cause alarm. NO HATE SPEECH! play nice with one another. Don’t engage in profanity, graphic or sexually explicit conversations. Many of our users are kids. We need a younger generation to take up this hobby because dudes like me aren’t getting any younger. This service is provided for free to you. Don’t use it to sell things or advertise. It is not intended for your personal gain. NO ILLEGAL ACTIVITY!
It’s recommended if you will be using our broker regularly, send us an email broker@novaradiosystems.com. Let us know what topic you hang out in and your node name and mac address. We won’t spam you or sell your email address to anyone. We may send a welcome email back but the main purpose is to update you on outages, scheduled maintenance, changes that effect your usage or violations of our agreement.
Nova Radio Systems reserves the right to terminate this service in part or whole. E.G. if a hurricane decimates Florida and communication is down, a group can find internet outside the effected area and use nodes inside the effect area to hop messages to loved ones or operational data to a EOC or TOC type place. We may terminate public service to provide all resources to assist in these types of events. Not to mention if we see a rash of Jackassery or things that violate these terms. Can one person spoil it for everyone? Yes they can. Don’t be that person.
About our Broker: This MQTT broker runs on Mosquitto software installed on private servers built and configured 100% by Nova Radio Systems. Yes, we believe in helping radio folks out so much that we did impossible tasks to make this happen! that being said, we are not professional computer wizards and are prone to make mistakes. We will do our best to keep the network up and running but we can not 100% guarantee a public safety grade network at all times. We have battery backups which charge from grid power, natural gas generators and if both of those fail, we have solar panels on the roof. With that being said, Public internet (Provided by Charter Communications) and public infrastructure (Cable lines and poles) can not be guaranteed (although we have cell back-up for that…). Equipment may fail not to mention disasters both natural and man made. You should not use this in life and death situations or where a failure in our communication system or equipment could result in bodily harm. Use at your own risk.
Also note: The data shared over this broker is public. All data including location, meta, telemetry and messages sent to this broker are 100% public. Even if you are running encryption on your node/mesh, when your node sends the data to the broker, it sends it open and another node subscribed to the topic will get the data and when it hops it onto it’s mesh, that may not be encrypted and it will send your data completely open over the air.
Sounds scary? Ham and GMRS operators potentially give there home address out over the air every time they say their callsign.
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