Terry "shoot3r" Schanno (NV0O)

Andrew "livitup" Ohnstad (N3OCQ)

Saturday 1300 Gramercy Park: Hackers and amateur radio operators have more in common than either group tends to admit. One speaker came up through 1990s hacker culture - attending 2600 meetings and contributing to 2600: The Hacker Quarterly long before becoming a licensed amateur radio operator. The other has spent decades in amateur radio, only to discover through DEF CON that the hacker mindset had been there all along. Through the story of the "Can It Ham?" contest - where participants build working antennas from unconventional materials - this talk explores how RF experimentation, system-level curiosity, and hands-on exploration form a shared foundation between hackers and hams. This is a story about rediscovery, perception, and what happens when you remove labels and just start building.