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Come Visit the Ham Radio Village at DEF CON 30! We are located in the Flamingo Hotel on the 3rd floor conference center in Virginia City II.
DEF CON Schedule
Thursday, August 11th
"Ham Radio in a Day" Class
09:00 - 18:00 PT
Ham Radio Village Exams (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City I)
In this class, KB6NU will cover everything you need to know to pass the Technician Class license exam. The text we'll be using is KB6NU's No No Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide, which is available for free from KB6NU's website - https://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/. Sign-ups and waitlist for this class are full.
Dan, KB6NU, is the author of the No Nonsense amateur radio license study guides and is very proud of helping thousands of people get their licenses and upgrade their licenses. He also blogs about amateur radio (KB6NU.Com), appears on the ICQPodcast (icqpodcast.com), and is Communications Manager for ARDC (ampr.org).
Friday, August 12th
Village Opening Remarks
10:00 - 10:15 PT
Ham Radio Village (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Welcome to Ham Radio Village @ DEF CON 30
Ham Radio USA License Exams (In-Person)
13:00 - 16:00 PT
Ham Radio Village Exams (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City I)
Come stop by the Ham Radio Village to get your amateur radio license during our free license exams!
The Ham Radio Village will be offering free amateur radio exam session at DEF CON 30 for all attendees to come and take the amateur radio license exam!
Please note since April 19th 2022, the FCC has imposed a new $35 application fee for new licensees (and more). Once you pass your exam, you will receive an email from the FCC to pay the application fee within a one week window, at which point your application will be invalidated, and a new application will need to be filed (note, you will not need to re-take the exam provided you have your Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination from the session*).
Sign up here
We recommend using ham.study (https://ham.study) to study the exam. The technician and general (first two of three levels) exams are 35 question exams, with publicly available question pools. ham.study will help you study by running though the entire question bank.
One you're ready to go, sign up on our exam listings (link above), where you will fill out all the relevant information, and get your FRN if you do not already have one.
Your Amateur Radio License and You
11:30 - 12:00 PT
Ham Radio Village Exams (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Once you acquire an amateur radio license (otherwise known as ham radio), many are left to wonder what to do next. This presentation will cover some of the basic/fundamental topics to know once you get your amateur radio license and how to use it. Hopefully after you leave this presentation your may overcome that “mic fright” many hams get once they get their license, and their hands on a radio.
Justin (AKA "InkRF") is studying electrical engineering and is an amateur extra class ham radio operator. Since entering the hobby in 2020, he has been involved with many amateur radio orgizantions around the country and world, including serving on the board of the Ham Radio Village and on the HRV conference committee. While Justin enjoys operating a pileup, his main mission in the hobby is getting others to learn more about, and join the endless world that is amateur radio.
Hacking Ham Radio: Dropping Shells at 1200 Baud
15:00 - 16:00 PT
Ham Radio Village Exams (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Amateur radio can be used to communicate with operators all over the world using voice, Morse code, or even computers. When connected to a computer, our rigs can do anything from text messaging and email to sharing images and tracking weather balloons. There’s something magical about connecting to a device or person across the planet without the modern Internet, but can these connections be abused? Of course, they can! This presentation will review a memory corruption exploit developed to obtain remote code execution via ham radio. The presentation will briefly describe packet radio and APRS before moving on to target selection, fuzzing, reverse engineering, shellcode development, and exploitation. Prior understanding of basic exploit techniques such as simple buffer overflows and SEH overwrites is helpful, but not strictly required.
"Rick has been an enthusiastic penetration tester since 2015, and has been involved with the security community since 2005. As a Principal Security Consultant at Coalfire, Rick conducts application and API tests, cloud testing, network penetration tests, and wireless tests. He has also completed multiple security-related research and development projects.
Rick dove into information security in 2005, enrolling in a university program specifically designed around network security. He has experience as a Linux system engineer, security analyst, and penetration tester. Rick has volunteered at both Blackhat and Defcon, and co-founded two non-profit hackerspaces: HeatSync Labs in Arizona, and Eugene Maker Space in Oregon. Rick interests include radio and electronics, which are sometimes combined with security projects. He has also written for the popular security-related blog hackaday.com."
Saturday, August 13th
Ham Radio USA License Exams (In-Person)
11:00 - 17:00 PT
Ham Radio Village Exams (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City I)
Come stop by the Ham Radio Village to get your amateur radio license during our free license exams!
The Ham Radio Village will be offering free amateur radio exam session at DEF CON 30 for all attendees to come and take the amateur radio license exam!
Please note since April 19th 2022, the FCC has imposed a new $35 application fee for new licensees (and more). Once you pass your exam, you will receive an email from the FCC to pay the application fee within a one week window, at which point your application will be invalidated, and a new application will need to be filed (note, you will not need to re-take the exam provided you have your Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination from the session*).
Sign up here
We recommend using ham.study (https://ham.study) to study the exam. The technician and general (first two of three levels) exams are 35 question exams, with publicly available question pools. ham.study will help you study by running though the entire question bank.
One you're ready to go, sign up on our exam listings (link above), where you will fill out all the relevant information, and get your FRN if you do not already have one.
Ham Nets 101
11:30 - 12:00 PT
Ham Radio Village (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Ham Nets 101 - An introduction to ham nets for operators of all experience levels. Nets are an easy way to get on the air, talk to other hams, and be part of the ham community. Ham nets operate on all bands and often even on local repeaters. If you have a brand new Technician license, or a dusty old Extra, come learn all about what ham nets are and how to participate.
Jon is a product manager at Viking Cloud with a true passion for information security. Jon is an amateur radio operator, lockpicker, phreaker, repairer of all things, and maker.
Getting on the air: My experiences with Ham radio QRP
13:00 - 13:30 PT
Ham Radio Village (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Have a FCC amateur radio license or thinking about getting one? There are some easy quick ways to get on the air, and yes all it takes is some wire, balun, and a radio (this can be a raspberry pi). I'll share a few quick examples of my own.
Jeremy Hong is a Hardware Hacker, Amateur Extra Class Ham Radio Operator (KD8TUO), and Reverse Engineer at Cromulence. He has been featured on ARRL's QST and On The Air Publications.
Panel: Ask-a-ham
15:00 - 15:30 PT
Ham Radio Village Exams (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Do you have any questions for those that have been involved in the amateur radio hobby? Now is the time to "Ask-A-Ham"!
Sunday, August 8th
Ham Radio USA License Exams (In-Person)
11:00 - 14:00 PT
Ham Radio Village Exams (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City I)
Come stop by the Ham Radio Village to get your amateur radio license during our free license exams!
The Ham Radio Village will be offering free amateur radio exam session at DEF CON 30 for all attendees to come and take the amateur radio license exam!
Please note since April 19th 2022, the FCC has imposed a new $35 application fee for new licensees (and more). Once you pass your exam, you will receive an email from the FCC to pay the application fee within a one week window, at which point your application will be invalidated, and a new application will need to be filed (note, you will not need to re-take the exam provided you have your Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination from the session*).
Sign up here
We recommend using ham.study (https://ham.study) to study the exam. The technician and general (first two of three levels) exams are 35 question exams, with publicly available question pools. ham.study will help you study by running though the entire question bank.
One you're ready to go, sign up on our exam listings (link above), where you will fill out all the relevant information, and get your FRN if you do not already have one.
Oli: A Simpler Pi-Star Replacement
11:00 - 11:30 PT
Ham Radio Village (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Oli: A Pi-Star replacement rewritten from scratch. DMR, Dstar, and other digital voice modes have long been the exclusive domain of Pi-Star. While a workhorse, there are many complicated settings to navigate before being able to make the first contact. This talk will discuss Oli, a project built from the ground up to be fast and pleasant to use. This will be a live demo and tool release.
Danny Quist is an extra class amateur radio operator. He was first licensed in 1994 and enjoys CW, FT8, DMR, Dstar, and YSF operations. Aside from radio, Danny is a reverse engineer. He has spoken at Blackhat, Defcon, Shmoocon, Recon, and other conferences about reverse engineering topics.
Off the grid - Supplying your own power
12:30 - 13:00 PT
Ham Radio Village (Flamingo Hotel, Virginia City II)
Ever want to take your rig off-grid powered by only the sun an a variety of batteries? This talk will discuss how to operate low power off the grid indefinitely as well as considerations to make on batteries. We'll talk power, cables, batteries, crimping and more. Every ham has unique use cases, and this talk will allow you to tailor your kit to your off-grid needs!
Eric is a seasoned pentester and a Security Principal Consultant at Secureworks. On a daily basis he attempts to compromise large enterprise networks to test their physical, human, network and wireless security. He has successfully compromised companies from all sectors of business including: Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Entertainment, Amusement Parks, Banking, Finance, Technology, Insurance, Retail, Food Distribution, Government, Education, Transportation, Energy and Industrial Manufacturing.
His team consecutively won first place at DEF CON 23, 24, and 25's Wireless CTF, snagging a black badge along the way. Forcibly retired from competing in the Wireless CTF, he now helps create challenges!
Village Closing Commentary
14:00 - 14:15 PT
Ham Radio Village
As our village wraps up for this year, a huge thank you to everyone for participating!