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This is called DX-ing, it's very well alive, however I'm not sure how much of the equipment users still build themselves, if any.
by Nux 5y ago
This is called DX-ing, it's very well alive, however I'm not sure how much of the equipment users still build themselves, if any.
- dbcurtis 5y agoA lot of experimentation these days is SDRs. But people still build. The founders of Elecraft met at a club focused on building radios and decided to monetize their hobby.
- wdfx 5y agoI've just started getting into this using SDR. Although I cannot design and build such low cost high performance digital receivers, I do have a lot of control over: - software: I can make my own DSP pipelines for demodulation and filtering - antenna: building antennas is completely approachable, using bits of wire, terminal blocks and basic tools - RF input chain: analogue filters and amplifiers to cleanse the signal coming in