This is great. There must be unused dishes all over that could be
useful to amateurs and radio buffs.
https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2019-August/074520.html
From the link:
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A group of GNU Radio community members has permission to evaluate a dish
installation in Huntsville, AL near the Space Center. If you've ever been
to the Space Center (where the Saturn V is suspended from the ceiling) then
this dish is right outside the main entrance. Anyone attending Symposium
last year should recognize it!
Here's a set of photos:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1d_Oi3hrIi49JxmaoNuUA-pvUXOs7vSz1
We're looking for technical information, identification of what you
recognize in the photos, recommended next steps, and what to watch out for,
prioritize, or avoid. We already know we want to take the paint off all the
ID plates and see what's under there.
We want to see if we can get this working for *amateur radio operators to
access over the internet*, ideally with a GNU Radio flowgraph to control it
from an SDR. Our priority is to make this work for amateur satellite.
This type of setup is similar to what GNU Radio Foundation is working on
with the Allen Telescope Array. We have the go-ahead from the Space Center
curator to do this study and make recommendations.
I have fully restored several basket-case British sports cars and then
successfully raced them. My other team members have restored things even
more challenging. We are not dumb, naive, or easily deterred. We know this
may turn out to be something that requires way more work than we can do in
any time frame we can manage. Documenting that is still of great value, and
that is why we are asking for your help. Right now, no one knows much of
anything about it. This sort of installation, if available for amateur
radio, is well worth the effort.
Some of the people involved have been driving past this installation for 20
years and want to see it back in service at whatever level we can achieve.
It will be discussed at GNU Radio Conference, and everyone at the
conference will have the opportunity to see it up close and in person,
since it's literally across the parking lot from the venue.
Want to attend or find out more about GRCon?
https://www.gnuradio.org/grcon/grcon19/
If you know of someone off-list that might know details that will help,
then please pass this along!
-Michelle W5NYV + Corps of Operation Flashlight
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We have a new newsgroup: radiofreqs.radionews
This newgroup is an aggregation of radio related
news feeds. Currently, there are feeds for
ARRL
rtl-sdr.com
More are coming. Please reply and let us
know what your favorite feeds are, and what feeds should
be included.
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I am thinking of setting up a newsgroup for aggregating
blog and phlog posts from our members. Please let me
know if you are interested, and forward me your RSS
feed to include.
Not sure if anyone is making RSS feeds or their phlogs,
but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.
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Our Netnews groups and mail-lists are now bridged as follows:
Netnews Group Mail List
radiofreqs.general radiofreqs(a)lists.tildeverse.org
radiofreqs.ham hamradio(a)lists.tildeverse.org
Articles posted to the Netnews group will be automatically sent to
the mail list. And, posts to the mail list will be added to the
Netnews group.
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From: "Matthew (NB0X)" <nonlinear(a)radiofreqs.space>
Newsgroups: radiofreqs.general
Subject: rfassistant
User StarGazer has kindly contributed an electronics calculator
for our community's use:
> As I am an avid electronics experimenter and ham radio
> operator, I have written a light weight terminal based
> program called RF Circuit Assistant to perform a lot
> of the common calculations that come up in the ham radio
> hobby. It is written in C and the source code is freely
> available. It compiles to a single executable that can
> be placed in a common system wide path so that everyone
> can take advantage of it. The software and instructions
> can be downloaded from my github with the following URL:
>
> https://github.com/sfeek/rfassistant.git
>
> If anyone has ideas for additional functions let me know.
rfassistant has been installed and is available in
/usr/local/bin.
Thank you StarGazer.
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Hi all,
I have added a new wiki page on accessing the newsgroups/bulletin board.
https://wiki.radiofreqs.space/w/4-newsgroups
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Hi all,
I am looking for feedback on what on a few items
regarding radiofreqs.space:
1. What is the most effective way to make
announcements? MOTD, Newsgroups, Mail list?
2. What would you like to see/do with
RadioFreqs.space?
Any comments, questions, and other feedback
are welcome so that we can make this an
effective and fun community.
Thank you!
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Amateur radio - NB0X
Hi all,
I have installed YKFlog - yet another ham radio logbook
Just type 'yfk' at the prompt at enjoy.
Docs are at: http://fkurz.net/ham/yfklog/doc/
Let me know if there is any other software that would
be useful.
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