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Hello hamthread. I just got my Technician license two weeks ago, a Yaesu FT-4x, an NA-771 antenna. Local listenings around Christmastime was an audibly-ancient gentleman talking about cleaning candy machines for 60 years and how "you have to heat them up real good to get all the stuff out" and the sheer  factor has me absolutely in love with keying into the invisible world.I don't know what broke in my brain, I think I just wanted to listen to P25 phase II in the area, saw how much digital transceivers cost and their limitations, couldn't decide if I wanted to use a mobile or handheld transciever, and here I am now, but let me introduce you to a project I'm calling Vine Room. Basically a low-cost portable SDR I have okay knowledge of wiring electronics, soldering, etc. I bought a Raspberry pi, touchscreen, and RTL dongle and in the works are an RTC (CMOS battery), audio board, battery/charging board, speakers, and fans. I know fuckall about Python but I'm learning, and it seems that things that already exist like RTL-SDR Scanner, OP25, and Gqrx are good things to piggyback off of and frankenstein together to get the functionality I want--portable, Rx-only scanner that goes from 26-470mHz (the frequencies my antennas catch) and plays whatever it stops on. Maybe add FM2TXT for fun? The UI design is the easiest part since that's what I partially do for a living, but learning Python, debian-based linux, SDR, breaking apart code, wiring stuff up, is really invigorating. I really miss the non-SMD days of electronics where soldering didn't involve a jeweler's loupe. I got RTL-SDR scanner working on the Pi already, which is super promising. I'm brand new at this so anything working at all is a huge win. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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spankmeister posted:I'm sure those interfaces all make perfect sense if you were huffing lead fumes in the 70's Or were frozen in amber in 2002
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Feb 3, 2021 20:19
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echinopsis posted:tbh all of this is super interesting to me.. right up until the talking to people part. I have basically no intention to talk to anyone, I just like listening in on whatever random poo poo people are broadcasting. I'm the audio equivalent of a lookie-loo. A listen-loo. During the power outages/snow in Texas where I'm at, I had finally gotten OP25 set up and running on my little project (yay!) and got a live stream of cops trying to move stuck vehicles, and linemen having frighteningly low awareness of where things were located at substations ("uh I'm on the uh east side and there's no transformers as drawn, uh, verify") I had power the whole time so it was cool passing along intel on progress of power restoration to my coworkers during WFH time
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Mar 5, 2021 16:52
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echinopsis posted:idk how you mega nerds have done it but im finally hey tell your dentist 9#3_sh 0b2_a5 4xt_28 
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Mar 5, 2021 23:33
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Jonny 290 posted:nope. it was built in '99 and thats the way we like it god drat it ham_radio.txt
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Mar 14, 2021 16:26
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Crusader posted:fyi The gently caress outta here with that. I'm clinging to my old versions for dear life until a decent fork arrives
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I've mostly been hanging out on SW these days and finding a bunch of hams doing a trivia night was a fun surprise. Other fun surprises was the guys who apparently got into an altercation at something called the Merry Hour, have strong opinions about their district attorney, and the other one who believes chemtrails are greenhouse gases and was deeply and audibly divorced. Being a SWL listen-loo on equipment from the 80s is extremely cool. E: here's a question, I keep encountering unlisted frequencies playing what I can only describe as theramin concerts--it sounds a bit like those recordings of planets, or maybe digital transmissions not encoded correctly. Anyone have any idea what that's about?
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