Monday, August 1, 2016

Emoji Gun Control

Because you can trace all gun violence back to the emoji?

Hamvention to Greene Co Fair and Expo Center

Makeshift TYT MD-380 Scanner

Detective work with the MD-380...

The End of a Hara

Hara Arena closing. New Hamvention location TBD.

How about this?


Ham Radio 2.0: Episode 51 - Unboxing the Alinco DR-735T Mobile Radio

Alinco DR-735T...

NooElec and AmateurRadio.com SDR Giveaway

Head over to AmateurRadio.com to have a chance to win one of fifty SDR receivers given away by NooElec.

Friday, July 29, 2016

SDR Limits

From the linked article:
The key feature of the LimeSDR, and all boards derived from Lime Micro’s tech is the LMS7002M. It’s a Field Programmable RF transceiver with coverage from 100kHz to 3.8GHz, a programmable IF filtering from 600kHz to 80MHz, and — this one is important — on-chip reconfigurable ‘signal processing’ and a fast USB 3.0 interface to a computer.

APRS: Xastir and Raspberry Pi

WZØW's Xastir on the Raspberry Pi:
"A while back I got interested in APRS. My only 2m radios were a Kenwood TM281A in my car, and a dual band HT. Neither had TNC capabilities built in, though, so the first order of business was to get a TNC that I could use on one or both of these radios. I had seen an article by Jerry Clement, VE6AB, in the May 2015 issue of QST about a bluetooth-capable TNC fromMobilinkd that works well with HT tranceivers and APRSDroid on Android smartphones. I decided to give it a try, and it worked well, as advertised. 
Then I started wondering, if I used a Bluetooth USB adapter on a Raspberry Pi, could I use Xastir to set up APRS on my base station. The punchline of the story is yes, I could."

Die Hard Reloaded

La Plus Ca Change

The more things change, the more they stay the same.