Hi kristoff,
Thank you for your thoughts. I am curious about your saying that "I have
been hesitant to post here in the GR list as it's more about
signal-process then about GNU Radio." Have you tried and not gotten good
responses, or have you just assumed it was not the appropriate place? I
hope we have not discouraged people from asking valid questions here.
As an alternate to creating another mailing list, we have a Ham Radio
chat room which grew out of a GRCon20 Breakout session. It can be
accessed by Matrix using the Element (previously Riot) desktop or phone app.
server: gnuradio.matrix.ungleich.cloud
room: #HamRadio:gnuradio.org
you also can join the #gnuradio:gnuradio.org room for the more specific
GR questions.
I will soon be posting a news item here and on the gnuradio.org home
page about our first video meeting.
73,
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Barry Duggan KV4FV
https://github.com/duggabe
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:24:49 +0200, kristoff wrote:
Hi Barry,
Concerning the separate GR-ham mailing-list, I don't know if it really
needs to be a "GR ham-radio" list, but what I think would be useful is
a separate mailing-list to discuss signal-processing (that happen to use
GNU Radio), separate of the 'discuss-gnuradio' list that is more related
to questions on GNU Radio itself.
I am also still learning SDR, and I have a number of question on how to
decode signals (e.g. "I want to decode RTTY with 1.5 stop-bits, what's
the best way to handle that half a bit at the end without impacting the
clock-recovery block?") here I have been hesitant to post here in the GR
list as it's more about signal-process then about GNU Radio. When
talking to fellow hams who tried GNU Radio, a lot of them have the same
problem: how to create a working flowgraph? What blocks to use? What do
all the parameters of that block really do and what do I value should I
put in there?
So, yes, a separate list would be nice. .. but I don't know if a "GR Ham
Radio" is the best combination.
- Why only Ham radio?
SDR and GNU Radio seams to me one of the best tools to promotion
amateur-radio, especially if you target people from the open-source /
hackerspace / maker scene. Focussing to much on amateur-radio will -I
think- might mean you lose this opportunity.
- For the amateur-radio community, focussing to much on GNU Radio might
not be ideal neither. For me, the main topic here is SDR,
signal-processing, DSP and data-communication, ... GNU Radio is only
part (be it, a very big and important part) of that. Most hams start out
with a simple RTL-SDR dongle and just *use* it for some project: APRS
receiver, beacon receiver, to track HABs to listen to
weather-satellites, listen to QO100, ... It's usually only in a later
stage that they move to GNU Radio, when they are comfortable with using
SDR and are interesting going the next step: learn how SDR works
internally and develop SDR applications themselves.
73
kristoff - ON1ARF
