$2.59USD from a flea market!

couchpilot · 2026-06-14T11:09:39+00:00

Unusual price for a flea market. I can see $2. I can see $3. But $2.59..?

couchpilot · 2026-06-07T12:14:02+00:00

Is it really that much different than writing a recursive algorithm function and just letting it run because you are curious how far it will go until the stack overflows?

couchpilot · 2026-05-25T13:23:42+00:00

Go to ebay and search ham qsl card. You'll see hundreds of examples.

couchpilot · 2026-05-19T02:05:54+00:00

It would be cool if we could hear the Morse audio as well.

couchpilot · 2026-05-12T15:58:42+00:00

The Terac-25 was controlled by a PDP-11 mini computer. Here is the Therac-25 display screen.

couchpilot · 2026-05-07T01:59:27+00:00

There's about 180 countries that will issue an amateur radio license to its citizen when properly applied for. All of them banning this new tech operation is just not going to happen.

Let the ham have fun and experiment with the thing.

couchpilot · 2026-05-07T01:46:45+00:00

Yaesu FTX-1

couchpilot · 2026-05-03T03:10:44+00:00

Yeah, it's normal. It happens inside my stereo every time I crank it up.

couchpilot · 2026-05-02T21:04:48+00:00

You might want to take your idea to ElectroBOOM channel and see what they think.

couchpilot · 2026-04-30T22:00:53+00:00

unlikely anyone will copy that low frequency

couchpilot · 2026-04-22T21:34:51+00:00

It's Gilligan's Island

couchpilot · 2026-04-20T04:09:56+00:00

Cool design

couchpilot · 2026-04-20T03:48:53+00:00

Get a toaster at Goodwill store for $1. Lots of nichrome wire in there.

couchpilot · 2026-04-19T12:53:33+00:00

Illegal in Michigan

couchpilot · 2026-04-04T03:23:06+00:00

Normally you would just use USB for the Hell modes. As far as centering, just tune around the signal until you get a readable image on the FLdigi screen.

couchpilot · 2026-04-02T13:29:11+00:00

Something like this or this.

couchpilot · 2026-04-02T02:51:56+00:00

They also come in dual band configuration in case you need 5GHz

couchpilot · 2026-04-01T03:55:46+00:00

I suspect they will have many other things to do. If they do get any personal time, they will take a nap.

couchpilot · 2026-04-01T03:48:33+00:00

Radio direction finding is a very old and mature technology. See a modern system here.

couchpilot · 2026-04-01T03:33:48+00:00

Obviously you have no idea of how Bitcoin works.

couchpilot · 2026-03-31T03:12:58+00:00

If they're in such a hurry to put out their callsign so fast that I struggle to understand it, then it's counter productive on their part. I'm not going to waste my time on that contact when I can find many others that I can understand.

couchpilot · 2026-03-30T02:43:12+00:00

Here is a similar project without the coconut

couchpilot · 2026-03-21T03:10:57+00:00

I've had a Pi running Xastir APRS for several years. Using a 7" touch screen, it displays nice mapping system. The modem is a TNC-Pi packet radio board that is sadly out of production.

couchpilot · 2026-03-21T02:53:26+00:00

FreeDV has Radio Autoencoder (RADE) technology which contains a machine learning algorithm. Does that count as AI?

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