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$50 RTLSDR Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD7558GT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD7558GT I got this to play around with what's on the air, and now I'm a full
by bb88 9mo ago
$50 RTLSDR Kit
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD7558GT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD7558GT
I got this to play around with what's on the air, and now I'm a full blown extra.
- jasondigitized 9mo agoWhat's a full blown extra. I have wanted to pull the trigger on this for a while.
- bb88 9mo agoHam radio Amateur Extra. The license after Technician and then General. The RTLSDR is an easy way to see if you'd like radio or not.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoNice! There's not many new hams these days. When I was young it was basically what everyone technical was into.
- bb88 9mo agoThanks, it's an interesting hobby. Technically interesting, but unfortunately I think a lot of the politics of it turn people off.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoThat happens in every hobby. There's always people declaring themselves king of some hill and making things toxic. I've been in a lot of hobby organisations and it's always the same. In a commercial organisation these people get reported to HR and kicked out but volunteer orgs are much less likely to throw out someone who does a lot of work for free. I've seen it in ham clubs, makerspaces, etc. It's just what happens. The best thing is having a rock solid code of conduct. And yeah it's technically interesting though I really miss it being on the bleeding edge. That hasn't been the case for decades. The commercial world can send a gigabit per second to a phone but we're stuck with 9600 baud APRS (or 1200 even sometimes)
- mikewarot 9mo agoHave you tried using it with GNU Radio? It's pretty cool to build a signal flow graph, then have it just work, with output to your speakers
- bb88 9mo agoI've been meaning to come up with my own digital voice signaling system.