Tuesday, August 2, 2016

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."