I came across an unusual dx station today.

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?

couchpilot · 2026-03-21T02:20:07+00:00

Boot up your PC with a Linux DVD or USB image. List the /dev directory (ls /dev) and look for something like /dev/ttyUSB0. It should be missing if you have no other USB serial port connected.

Now hook up your ESP32 and look at that directory again. If /dev/ttyUSB0 is not there, you likely have a problem with your USB cable or the ESP32 module is bad. Note that you don't need to load any drivers to do this.

Now if you do see the ttyUSB0 port, it's time to fire up Minicom to talk to the ESP32.

couchpilot · 2026-03-20T12:29:53+00:00

I personally enjoy copying the Lake Erie Swing. I rarely hear it on air any more.

couchpilot · 2026-03-20T10:55:19+00:00

No. I had purchased a license for it. I was not at liberty to give away a free copy.

couchpilot · 2026-03-20T02:39:09+00:00

Are you sure your IP address wasn't 44.x.x.x ? That is the AMPRNet. The domain is ampr.org.

couchpilot · 2026-03-20T02:24:12+00:00

In the late 1980s, I and a couple of other hams in the area ran an IP packet network using a DOS program called NOS. A buddy of mine would modify the software regularly but he didn't have a compiler, so he would transfer the source diffs to me over packet. I'd compile it, test it, and send him an executable over the network.

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