silman

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by silman 8y ago
Well i'm sold, can't wait for the QSX to be released so I can really start using my AE license! Thanks!
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by silman 8y ago
So would you recommend the QSX as a good way for a beginner to get to explore all the different bands/modes? Do you think this is a good replacement to - say - a hackRF? Or is the hackRF better for specific use cases like debugging bec
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by silman 8y ago
can you explain how QSX is different from the other SDRs being mentioned (ADALM-PLUTO, HackRF One, etc)? Is it just more transmit power than those other SDRs? I feel like i'm missing something.
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by silman 8y ago
I definitely will try to do that SSTV event. I don't think i "get" echolink. You hook up your radio to your computer (somehow? I don't know how i'd do this with a baofeng) and talk into it and then it uses the inter
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by silman 8y ago
So what lower-cost radio do you recommend to get started on non-voice bands? I see the bitX40 people made a new model called the µBITX. What bands and protocols will that open me up to? I also looked at the RTL-SDR but thats receive only an
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by silman 8y ago
As someone who went from nothing -> Amateur Extra when i was 23 (25 now) from a random spurt of inspiration to learn ham radio and then promptly did nothing with the license i agree with this. I don't know exactly what i was expecti
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by silman 8y ago
Huh i guess i made a bad assumption. Though i'm not surprised they make peripherals and work with the fabs, i just assumed it stayed away from it as much as it could. edited my comment, thanks for the info!
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by silman 8y ago
ARM designs processors, but just the processor. I̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶i̶p̶h̶e̶r̶a̶l̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶i̶t̶;̶ (also wrong here, apparently they make plenty of peripherals)., that's the job of the vendor who uses the processor
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by silman 8y ago
Been using a 2010 15" Macbook Pro since i found it in the dumpster in 2014 (yup...), it was my first ever time owning a macbook and using OSX (outside of some time on friends computers, etc) and i love that thing. I used linux before b
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by silman 9y ago
Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Robert F. Pierret was my go-to for undergraduate text. The diagrams speak a thousand words and Pierret is a funny dude. Builds everything up from basic quantum. Don't mistake it with his graduate te