[Noisebridge-discuss] CQ CQ CQ de KA6RCQ

[Michael Shiloh]

ham radio today is this very bizarre mix of totally up-to-date and 
cutting edge technology, along with 30, 50, and even 100 year old 
practices. for instance, many ham websites are abominable (of course 
many general websites are the same). some software is MS-DOS only.

then you have projects like gnuradio, doing cutting-edge dsp processing 
of raw RF data to create radios in software.

i haven't quite been able to wrap my head around these incredible 
inconsistencies. part of the charm, i guess.



Christie Dudley wrote:
> I had a summer job when I was in school making ham radio antennas.  
> (MOR-GAIN - they're probably long out of business, as they declared 
> bankruptcy at the end of that summer.) I always thought about picking it 
> up, but the relevance seemed kind of low.  I think with the stuff Mitch 
> brings up, it sounds more worthwhile these days.
> 
> Christie
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com 
> <mailto:josh at joshisanerd.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:39:24PM -0800, Mitch Altman wrote:
> 
>      > Starting a Noisebridge ham class might generate a bunch of interest
> 
>     I'd definitely be interested in coming; I've had the first Radio Shack
>     licensing book kicking around for a few years now, but still haven't
>     gotten into it.
> 
>     Relevant tangent: the first thing I built at noisebridge was an
>     arduino sketch that decodes Morse code to ASCII and stuffs it into a
>     buffer.  It then looks for a password match in there, and drives a
>     digital output when it finds .
> 
>     The relevance: I have a good starting point on an arduino-based morse
>     trainer, if anyone would be interested in collaborating.  My morse is
>     awful, and I don't really know how fast to make dits/dahs, etc.
>     Having someone who is fluent in morse and knows what they'd want in a
>     trainer would be really helpful.  Any of the hams interested?
>     --
>     Josh Myer   650.248.3796
>      josh at joshisanerd.com <mailto:josh at joshisanerd.com>
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