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Here are a few pictures some might find interesting. BTW - I'm running Debian Linux (Buster), the instructions that came with the SignaLink USB did not cover Linux - only Winblows. It worked fine with Buster :-)

Have not tried WSPR yet but plan to. Just got my interface setup and after some TX testing on a quite part of 40 meters (7070) I moved up to 7074 and gave FT-8 a try mostly to see if everything was working and sure enough made some contacts. Next I went to pskreporter.info and was stunned to...

Good point on the locked TX! When I leave the house I turn off the rig. May leave the computer on but not the rig.

Hi all, decided to get back on HF and picked up a nice basic ICOM IC-718. Not planing on putting up much of an antenna so weak signal is important. Some of the digital HF modes do very well on weak signal and one of the new modes that caught my eye was FT8. While I'm not sure I will use it for...

No doubt ham radio is changing as is just about everything in electronics. The components are getting so small many require special equipment and techniques to work with. There still is a lot to mess around with and learn. One of my recent projects that turned out to be a lot of fun and a great...

Line of sight reception? I think this one counts ;-) Was taken with a point and shoot under poor lighting. Want to try again with the DSLR, better lens and better lighting.

Just checked and found it's busy here too for a Sunday. Check out the top one on the close up screenshot. Could hear it indoors :) Not loud as it is running low throttle and noise abatement but still making wind, flaps and landing gear deployment sounds.

I'm just north of the VOR station at KORL. It marks the end of the 2500 foot minimum on the approach to KMCO so all the big planes are at 2700 > 2500 feet overhead when landing to the south. Don't need the binoculars for these ;-) The VOR is also used by aircraft in route to other locations...

It does now, took a while for me to figure out how to set my location. The Flightaware control page has what looks like an edit link but only works if it is clicked on. Does nothing on rollover so I missed it.

Update - just checked my stats page 9-26-20 and see I had 4 positions reports from the 200 > 250 mile range. All due north. Maybe a better gap in the trees to the north? Perhaps another reason I don't get many that far out is there is a lot of activity at my location. Have seen up to 260 reports...

I never really had much success hitting any of the local repeaters using a HT. That's part of what caught my interesting in setting up the hotspot. Would really like to be able to walk around the back yard with the HT and not have to be tied to the base running 20 watts or so just to use the...

Here is what the control panel for the pi-star running on the Raspberry Pi zero looks like. Think I have it ready to go. Just waiting on my new DMR HT to come in.

Hi all, curious if anyone on the forum has been messing around with DMR and the Pi-star hotspot? One of my hobbies is I love messing around with the Raspberry Pi and when I recently learned that a DMR hotspot can be setup on the Pi zero using Pi-star software and an inexpensive MMDVM hat that...

That's excellent range. I'm not seeing that far, not sure if it's the dongle - no built in amp for 1090MHz or the tall oaks all around. Still getting more then enough as I'm directly under the ILS for KMCO. The other day during a hard rain storm I was still tracking the big boys coming in during...

It's the FlightAware collinear 26 inch for 1090 MHz. It's been working great. 6700 from 100 > 150 and 203 150 > 200 miles on my last stats check. BTW - I'm using a standard Nooelec mini 2+ (no built in amp for 1090) If you want to give it a go try the lite version of Raspberry OS (no window...

Hi all decided to re-configure my ADS-B station. It is now running on a Raspberry Pi Zero mounted remote at the new FlightAware 1090 antenna. I have a FTA Ku band dish mounted up above roof level on a mast that is the perfect spot for a small light antenna. Only problem was the dish was in...

Perhaps the best (easy) link for installing and lots more info is: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/install Below is what 1090 MHz looks like on GQRX.

Hi all, having more fun with the little Raspberry Pi remote mounted at the discone antenna. I live right under the approach to Orlando International Airport (MCO) and thought it would fun and interesting to see if I could get Dump1090 running on the Raspberry Pi. Not sure I went about it in...

Thanks for the info. Still trying to figure out how all this encoded digital stuff got onto the 70cm amateur radio band. It's been a long time since I took my licence test but I thought closed propriety codecs were not suppose to be used for amateur radio. Clearly encryption is not to be used so...

Hi all, anybody tried decoding some of the digital amateur radio on the 70cm band? I have GQRX running on a Debian 10 desktop connecting to a Raspberry Pi 3+ at the antenna using TCP. Trying to figure out what might be the best and least complex way to do this. Really like GQRX and would...

A while back I had a HTPC with a satellite card mounted in it. Played around with WireShark (packet sniffer) on one of the data transponders. Tons of packets showed up. Seems like a SDR might be a lot of fun to play around with. Not sure what you might find - just a wide data band or maybe some...

Just mounted the Raspberry at the Discone antenna, really pulling in the signals now. I cut a piece of scrap chip board to fit on top of the bracket holding the antenna mask just under the roof eave (should be a nice dry place). Check out the roll of coax I was able to cut out, will reduce loss...

Thanks, now that I have it working really well I think I may go back and burn a new SD card with Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit) Lite (no desktop display) and make a step by step how to. (just the tricky part of Gqrx on the desktop and the driver for the USB dongle.) Everything else on the Raspberry is...

It's picking up the WX station with a jumper for an antenna. It's going to really start to find stuff when I hook it up to the discone. Being able to shorten the coax should help on the high frequencies (less loss).

Setting the Raspberry up this way does not require for it to run the X-server (display manager) so I decided to free up some memory on the little Raspberry. First screenshot shows the stats running X-server and playing a FM radio station. Second shows the stats after disabling the X-server...