Windstorm took down my EFHW (one of the plastic ties broke, imagine that). Thankfully, the balun survived without touching the ground and I had to fish it out (yay Decathlon fishing pole, most useful ham tool) from a juniper tree. Put it back up, shortened a little the 80m tail (after the coil) aaand ……(Continue Reading)
Category: SDR
Things related to software defined radio.
FT8 2021.06.29
FT8 2021.06.27
Bring out the big(gish) gun π
FT8 2020.12.04
More FT8 monitoring on 40m with a SDR and the balcony corner magloop. Since I’m sure my reception is not that good, the bands must be picking up!
FT8 2020.12.02
Well, the poor magloop isn’t doing too bad on receiving, even if it’s stuck in a balcony corner and blocked by buildings.
WSPR 2020.10.23
Monitoring WSPR for ~12 hours during the day with the same 20m EFHW. VK3MO‘s setup doesn’t count, it’s way too impressive π
FT8 2020.10.22
Monitoring FT8 on 20m for 24 hours with a Raspberry Pi, Gqrx, an SDR stick and the crappiest possible installation for a 20m EFHW antenna.
FT8 2020.08.15
KN34, 20-10 EFHW on a fishing pole (used a SDR on it as well).
Monitoring airplanes with dump_1090
Monitoring airplane traffic with a RTL-SDR and dump_1090.
Monitoring with rtl_433
Let’s see what a rtl_sdr can catch around the public 433 MHz frequency, where many devices operate.
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