So what SDR did you buy for $8? I was one of the attendees of Bryan's talk. To me the one sad part of the talk is that he daid the Elonics E4000 based sdr ... err DVB reciever which was about $10 (thus the talk title 'hacking radio for under $10), but once people figured out the DVB reciever was a great SDR the price gradually rose to now being near $200.
And of course technically this has nothing to do with ham radio, just SWL-ing (short wave listening), No license required. Although maybe a lawyer is required to navigate the rules. So, when you get or SDR and configure gnu-radio to talk to it, your going to do a plug presentation! While clearly this is a linux related talk, it can't be done without talking about the interesting legal issues, such as certain communications could be easily protected with encryption, instead the USA decided to make it illegal to listen to those frequencies. steve, aka [email protected] Michael Dexter wrote: > On 8/9/14 9:43 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: >> One of the things I am always looking for is ham radio apps for my Android >> boxen. As that is what I carry on the road now. I am going to try to get me >> something lighter than my X200 so I can go back to carrying a Linux box too. > I am not sure who caught Bryan Smith's OSCON talk on software defined > radio (SDR) but I overheard, "that was the best talk of OSCON." The part > about your tire pressure gauges emitting unique IDs AND being subject to > "you have a flat tire" attacks was eye opening. > > My $8 SRD receivers should arrive in a week or two and I loaded up on > the latest magazines and some certification info at Ham Radio Outlet > yesterday. I last looked into this when WX radio allowed you to download > nearly unintelligible weather images and clearly things have come a long > way. FreeBSD users are welcome to test the updated GNUradio port: > > http://www.db.net/downloads/ > > For a taste of all this: > > http://superkuh.com/rtlsdr.html > http://www.hamradioscience.com/the-rtl2832u-elonics-e4000-sdr-radio-aka-the-20-sdr/ > > And, it seems Ham Nation is still active: > > http://twit.tv/hn > > Anyone prepared to give a talk on this? Russell? > > Michael Dexter > PLUG Volunteer > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
