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by tomswartz07 9y ago
I think your argument is sound, but what OP is trying to say is, it's a $30 radio- and so long as you don't expect it to perform as well as a $300 radio, then it's fine. I have three Baofengs and they all work spectacularly w
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
Any reason to use this over the officially supported IRC/XMPP gateway? https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
It would be a good proxy for those radios, but if you're licensed and are simply looking for an inexpensive transceiver, Baofeng UV-5R radios can be found on Amazon for ~$20 and will get you working right out of the box. If you try to
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
It's a very different architecture. The original LimeSDR was able to receive from 100kHz - 3.8GHz. The LimeSDR Mini can only do 10MHz - 3.5GHz. It also only supports about 1/2 the bandwidth and sample rate. The official page highl
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
It's important to point out that the two reviews listed from 2016 and 2017 are for the previous version of the LimeSDR, not the LimeSDR Mini which was just recently released.
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
The main CrowdSupply page has a very good comparison table: https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr-mini
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
If you're just using a standard RTL-SDR, then yes, an upconverter like HamItUp or SpyVerter would work. However, the LimeSDR Mini supports down to 10MHz out of the box, which is "good enough". If you really need to get the 16
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
Are you talking about using the repeater on the ISS, or contacting one of the astronauts on the ISS? Contacting one of the astronauts is fairly difficult, as they have no particular scheduled time where they listen it. It just happens to be
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
I have no idea if it's still an issue, but ~1.5 years ago, I was sorting through my email, and discovered that a small plain text message was taking up >3MB in my inbox. I dug in a bit, and it turns out that Grammarly was embedding
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
Additionally, to further point out, there's a giant, vibrant open source community around the SDR software. SoapySDR/Pothos do great work, as well as the fine guy behind GQRX, the open-source SDR gui.
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
Surely. https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ is a great site for updates on new hardware and software. Most commonly, I use my SDR for: - Listening to ham (amateur) bands - Receiving NOAA/Meteor satellite images - Airplane trackin
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
I've been using Software Defined Radios for the better part of 5 years now and it's amazing the types of things you can receive with them. The article here discusses a cheap (but slightly modified) SDR, but if you step up ever-so-
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
>in Asia I think you're misunderstanding. This is Puerto Rico, a US territory. The people in those images are United States citizens.
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
This is exactly the case. Further, the parent comment is ignoring certain companies and agencies that explicitly prohibit cell phones on site.
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
It's my personal opinion, but if I had 6 properties, I'd sell them. Why would I need more than one place to live?
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
That's fine if they refuse to sell, but as the article points out, there's an enormous demand for homes. Several of the people mentioned in the article own more than one property and are entirely unwilling to sell.
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
Understood, and agreed. :)
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
They do have an x64 build as of about a year or so ago. Maybe even a bit longer than that.
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
They have a native Linux version? Why running it under Wine?
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
`function weather() { curl " http://wttr.in/$1";}` Not sure why it needs to be more complicated than that.
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
Anyone have any info on the amount of data that was encoded? It looks like it was a low resolution image with 5 frames, so I expect it to be about 1 Kb, max?
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
The spoiler on Port 5432 is pretty intense. :)
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
There are a lot of mods that allow you to do exactly that. My favorite that does exactly as you mention is KOs (Kerbal OS). It's basically a programmers interface for it, allowing for really precise control. A YouTuber, Scott Manley, h
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
It's based on the antenna design. These 'jammer' devices aren't dish based; they're designed after Yagi-Uda style antennas, in the format of a 'rifle' that the user points at the drone. The radiation patte
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
The problem being that in order to effectively 'jam' a signal far away, antenna theory requires that a fairly significant proportion of that radio energy must be directed out the back of the 'antenna'/gun. Right int
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by tomswartz07 9y ago
I loved the ThinkPad T420s when I worked with it at me previous job. Extremely easy to upgrade, well built, difficult to damage, great battery life with minimal TLP configuration, and the slim form factor was great for mobility.
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by tomswartz07 10y ago
To further point out, the test that caused the incident was not a 'routine test'. They had purposely disabled a large number of safety catches in order to perform a risky and ill-advised test. The aim of this test was to determine
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by tomswartz07 10y ago
Here's the thing though: How is that any better or different than notifications that already exist on your system? GitLab has web browser notifications that trigger on CI builds. Literally every instant messaging service has notificati
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by tomswartz07 10y ago
An AD environment refers to Active Directory; typically a setup used in large corporations with 100's of users and accounts. This is wayyyyy overkill for a home user.
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by tomswartz07 10y ago
Besides the obvious trolling occurring here, I'll answer your question on behalf of OP. Arduino was (at one time) considered the holy grail of Makers. They had open source schematics[1] and were very easy to use while quickly prototypi

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