Learn by Hamming

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  • Cool (non-ham) Project: Easy LoRa Node

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    I started my foray into the world of LoRa with a Heltec device in 2024. Very soon after, a friend gave me a commercial 900MHz antenna, so I started looking for an excuse to build another one. This generated a solar weather-indicating node which acts as a repeater, based on the RAK19007. It turns out…

  • HamClock for Your Shack

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    Many hams salivate over the Geochron, a mechanical world clock which shows light and dark areas of the world map based on the time of day in that part of the world. That type of Geochron is very expensive (I configured a Boardroom at 4,050 USD!), but the Geochron company also sell a dongle that…

  • Build a Take-It-Anywhere SDR Receiver: Part 2 – SDRPlay

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    Install SDRConnect In the VNC window into your Pi, open up a browser and go to https://www.sdrplay.com/sdrconnect/. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and download SDRConnect for Linux arm64 (arm64 is the type of processor the Raspberry Pi uses). When it finishes downloading, go to your Downloads folder, right-click on the .run file…

  • Build a Take-it-Anywhere SDR Receiver: Part 1 – The Build

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    I won an SDRPlay RSP1B software-defined radio receiver at a recent ham radio club meeting. The RSP1B is a really cool receiver which will receive signals from 1kHz through 2GHz. Not only that, but it’s about 3 inches square, and only about an inch tall (and looking inside the enclosure, SDRPlay probably could have made…