Whoah that's awesome I had no idea you could just pick this stuff up with consumer equipment
Truly amazing! This inspired me to buy some electronics from goodwill for a totally different kind of project.
HAM is fun. My neighbor keeps trying to get me into it. He helps run one of the local meetup groups.
He does radio astronomy remotely from a radio telescope he built on some family property in the high desert and is part of the local emergency communication system for earthquakes.
This awesome and I think more leftists need to learn to do shit like this (along with quadcopters and hacking) in case things... happen.
I've never played the game, but probably. I mean, we acknowledge that we live in the Imperial core, but ignore the responsibility while stanning John Brown.
Nice! I've fooled around a bit with some digital radio (mostly APRS and FT8). I try to RX SSTV when the ISS is doing events, so I've got a little experience working the birds. I've wanted to get an SDR and work some of these weather satellites for a while now. It would also be cool to monitor the electric company's trunking system when the power goes out, but my laptop battery lasts like 15 minutes so I'd have other problems to deal with.
That’s super cool
I had to do a tiny bit of (very pretend) antenna design last semester, using this EZNEC software which was a total trip, big “I am a radio guy who learned precisely enough coding to let you simulate antennas” vibes.
It’d be cool to do it for real, and it sounds like you don’t need tons and tons of physical shit to do it. But you do have to piece together a ton of stuff from all over the place, it seems
It was an academic thing in a subfield I wasn’t planning to go into, so it was a brief introduction to simulation with no building
I don’t know the first thing about what happens to the antenna signal once it enters the coax, and that seems like where most of the action is!
thats cool as hell. ive been interested in radio for a while but never got around to messing with it
That's fuckin badass, I'd love to learn more about how you do that.
