I have been waiting in anticipation all weekend to catch a chance to receive some radio signals from the international Space Station in order to decode pictures the Russian cosmonauts are sending via SSTV (Slow Scan Television) Mode PD180 to commemorate 80th anniversary of the birth of first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Although they were delayed in getting[…]
SDR – What is it and Why? The three letters = Software Defined Radio. What can you do with it? The sky is pretty much the limit. Think of SDR as hardware capable of being programmed as a radio utilizing software instead of electronics although the SDR hardware has electronics that give you the capabilities to use[…]
I have recently been playing around with APRS / DPRS (D-STAR Gateway) using various applications with and without radio. From my phone (which is an Android phone running the APRSdroid App) to my IC-2820H D-STAR radio, to the VWSaprs add-on package that communicates to the APRS-IS gateway for my home weather station. It has been interesting[…]