Re: [PLUG] FOSSCON communication ops

[Jim Fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org>]

So sorry I haven't kept up with reading this list.

Rich, I would have let you touch an HT at FOSSCON. I hope your just
looking might have inspired you to re-consider getting a license.

Also, the one laptop in front of the HT's was running an SDR app for
ADSB using an SDR dongle.

I was using a new live image, skywave linux, but probably more
interesting to you is that the Pentoo distro has many SDR apps
builtin. At least the ones that meet their philosophical requirements.

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/skywave-linux-new-linux-ubuntu-distribution-made-for-software-defined-radio/

http://www.pentoo.ch/

tons of good sdr info: http://sdr.ninja/

On 8/16/15, John Kreno <john.kreno@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not very involved in the community here, but I might pop into this. I
> was very un-aware there were this many hams lurking in this community.
>
> 73 to all of you out there
>
> -John N3XKD
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Jim Fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org> wrote:
>> > Last year was my first FOSSCON as an amateur.
>> >
>> > We went, what some thought was a little 'ham heavy'.
>> >
>>
>> I think the topics are somewhat related (just as things like 3D
>> printing), but I'd focus on the areas that are most closely related.
>> If somebody did a talk on Linux-based SDR that would be a great
>> tie-in.  Etc.
>>
>> If I see somebody walking around with a radio I'll have to get caught
>> up on how things have changed.  Back in the early 90s I was
>> considering getting a license.  I see they dropped the code
>> requirements, and that was the main thing holding me back (I was
>> really trying to go for the novice license and not the technician one
>> at the time).  I had a pretty good teacher in my father (who was
>> transmitting CW while driving long before texting was in fashion), but
>> it was still a lot to learn.
>>
>> --
>> Rich
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>
>
> --
> John Kreno
>
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> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
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