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Re: "I sent a photo of my cat 630 miles over the air"
Wheels are still round, in spite of what AI may suggest.
May 16 · 4 months ago
📡 Queen_City_Nerd [mod] · May 16 at 22:26:
here's something else for you to play with if you haven't seen it yet @addison.
https://swradiogram.net/ This is a group that sends a regular broadcast over just shorwave radio to decode with MFSK (FLDigi is a good program) Yeah, digital is the biggest thing to change I can think of for me. Even in our rigs, my TenTec is software defined, there's a little arduino clone in there doing the work. And since getting my ticket in 1993 it's been the sort of thing you can come and go from which makes it nice too. best 73!
I sent a photo of my cat 630 miles over the air — We used VarAC to transfer an 8kb image over the 20-meter band from Portland, OR to Salt Lake City, UT. My antenna is an inverted-vee dipole resonant at 14.1 MHz. It shares a feed point with a 10-meter inverted vee. The transfer took just under an hour. Given my antenna's thin, low-quality wire elements and the thunderstorm over the receiving station, I'm impressed that we were able to complete the transfer at all. I was transmitting at 45 Watts,...
💬 Addison [mod] · 8 comments · 4 likes · May 14 · 4 months ago
