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an RTL-SDR kit that's $40 USD in the states is $120 CAD in the great white north, *gently caress*
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I’m moving from a basement suite to a nice second floor apartment and there’s nothing in my lease agreement about putting a modest antenna on my balcony time to get my ham license
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Apr 11, 2021 01:46
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well now I want to find a cheap SDR stick and maybe an upconverter so I can listen to stuff under 25 MHz
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Jun 11, 2021 06:15
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now that we've openerup'd and have somehow managed to not immediately jump back up in cases outside of the deep chudlands I guess radio license exams will be back on soon should probably get a study guide
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Jul 26, 2021 04:53
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yeah I'm canadian so the exams are different and we haven't done any online stuff at all since all the exam hosts tend to be old dudes with suburban mcmansions running them out of their boomer mancaves. iirc if you get 80% or higher on the basic exam, you immediately get your advanced cert without needing to do the advanced exam so you can use sub-30 MHz frequencies and another couple kilowatts of transmit power
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Jul 26, 2021 05:07
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while I'm studying for my license I'd like to at least get used to pulling poo poo out of the aether and listening to it, and it looks like RTL-SDR dongles are *deeply* on sale on amazon.ca right now but not the full antenna kits. is there a recommended type of antenna or anything for those or is any ol' antenna with an SMA connector on it fine?
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Aug 2, 2021 07:52
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got an RTL-SDR and dual-band antenna on the way, should arrive Friday at the latest  looking forward to listening to the sounds of the LUMINIFEROUS AETHER
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my RTL-SDR V.3 and antenna showed up today so now I've got the VHF antenna next to the window and I'm skipping through various bands trying to find interesting stuff. found my first weird thing, a station at 169.440 MHz that was sending out regular, short pulses like so: then it stopped for a bit before sending out a few long pulses at various intervals. it doesn't sound like anything on AM and sounds kind of like a mechanical ratchety sound on DSB -- zoomed in they look like this:  my guess is that this is a digital signal and that I need to find a plugin for SDR# that'll do DMR e: currently listening to a bunch of old dudes on a repeater chatting about fuel injection. the air waves are fascinating Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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Aug 7, 2021 04:45
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drat that's sick. I have a little two foot long antenna that sits in my living room window and I can listen to the local ham guys on VHF and the VE7RPT repeater through it good conversation last night about maintaining turbodiesels, wish I had my license and could participate
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Aug 23, 2021 06:03
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today I learned about VE7KFM can't believe I share a province with this rear end in a top hat. also surprised no one's complained to Industry Canada enough to have his license revoked, though I suspect he'd keep blasting nonsense into the aether without one
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Dec 31, 2021 13:33
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paging dr. 290, dr. 290 to the insane shortwave poo poo ward ukrainian radio pirates have intermittently taken over the Buzzer (UZB-76)'s frequency and have been blasting music and anti-Putin slogans over it. it's back to buzzing now but a couple minutes ago they were playing Red Hot Chili Peppers lmao
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Jan 20, 2022 02:34
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since the invasion began there have been Russian speakers in the websdr chat live translating Russian military comms cutting edge warfare: it’s pretty lmao
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Mar 2, 2022 02:47
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I need to find a way to get an inconspicuous antenna set up on my apartment balcony. technically my lease agreement only says no satellite dishes so I bet I could disguise it as christmas lights or something and put it along my railing but that does leave the question of how to get the lead to it actually inside I don't have a license yet so I'm not going to be keying up or anything but I wouldn't mind listening to the aether from time to time
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Jonny 290 posted:It's not a thing on VHF/UHF repeater stuff, but yeah OM and YL are still in use today on HF quite a bit. Lot of older ladyhams don't mind it. popular womens' net called the YL Net runs to this day etc. ...extra young lady? didn't know a ring gave you shirt size powers in the ham space
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