The Pluto receiver is useless without proper filters as it will receive everything at the same time. With filters, it works fine, I managed more than 800 km on FT8 with it last winter, I talked a little bit about it at SDRA.
Adrian On August 9, 2020 9:59:53 PM UTC, Steve <coupaydevi...@gmail.com> wrote: >When the Pluto came out, I had to have one. Playing with it kind of >left me saying "meh" because it didn't seem to have much RX gain. I >needed a beam to focus on the transmitter. > >I then tried the LimeSDR-Mini but that thing only lasted about a year >and then failed. Expensive junk. Comparably, the Pluto is much more >hobby oriented with the ability to run Linux. Still running after >several years. It's not cheap at $250 USD, but think of it as a Pi >combined with a radio. > >On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 1:29 AM Adrian Musceac <kanto...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >> Hi David, >> >> I've watched with interest your recent foray into FreeDV data >transmission. >> There's a new and interesting project called HNAP (https://hnap.de ) >which has the same goals (long distance IP links). The project is well >described in this year's SDRA talk by Lukas O. >> Inspired by both your project and theirs, I wrote a 4FSK data mode >which has the following characteristics: >> >> - 100 kbaud, 1/2 convolutional code >> - fits in a 200 kHz channel on the 70 cm and 23 cm bands (IARU region >1 allocations) >> - full duplex >> - works with 50 watt FM amplifiers >> - good SNR performance, 20 km point to point access distance tested >with small non-directional antennas >> - carries layer 2 (Ethernet) frames >> >> Do you have anything planned for VHF as well? >> >> Best regards, >> Adrian_______________________________________________ >> Freetel-codec2 mailing list >> Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 > > >_______________________________________________ >Freetel-codec2 mailing list >Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
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