[POLITICAL] [ARDUINO] [OPENWRT] [LINUX] What are you building?

[Dave]

   The URL should be <hamradionow.tv>

Dave - WB6DHW
<http://wb6dhw.com>

On 1/25/2013 10:00 PM, Dave wrote:
>    I am going through the <hamradionow.org>.  All of the talks from 
> this years DCC are there.  One is on Codec2 - an open source 
> narrowbnd(1.2 KHz) digital codec designed for HF use.  4 other videos 
> were on GNU Radio.  Very interesting and would be for all the young 
> computer hackers.
>
> Dave - WB6DHW
> <http://wb6dhw.com>
>
> On 1/25/2013 7:54 PM, Jeff Scaparra wrote:
>> I am a newer ham and I wanted to voice my opinion on combining new 
>> technologies with ham radio. These are solely my opinion based on my 
>> experience in ham radio and other communities.
>>
>> I agree completely with recruiting new programmers, makers, security 
>> professionals. I am probably one of the younger people in Ham Radio 
>> and I am 28. I have tried to get some of my friends into it but 
>> talking on a radio doesn't really interest them (I realize there is 
>> more to it than that but that is the perception). The only way to 
>> really bring these people in is to increase digital experimentation. 
>> Embrace open standards that allow the "hacker" community to play 
>> (Hacker in the inventor sense and not malicious). I think D-Star is 
>> an awesome idea with one fatal flaw. A proprietary voice codec. I 
>> have a USRP and it is a great software defined radio but I can't 
>> really write code to play with DSTAR because of the codec issue. I 
>> could probably buy the dongle and make it work but then I can't 
>> modify it or try something new very easily. I am encourage  by the 
>> codec2 work.
>>
>> We should encourage people to create new digital modes and find ways 
>> to link radio, computers, internet, robotics, etc.. I believe that 
>> this would attract more people. I also know that some of these things 
>> are going on. I think that it is important for the people leading 
>> these efforts to not only explain their importance to other HAMs but 
>> to present them to the maker, and hacker communities. By showing the 
>> interesting technologies and how they could be applied it will 
>> encourage people to get licensed and start tinkering. There are also 
>> some FCC rules that hinder our abilities to "tinker". Personally I 
>> would like hams able to operate in any publicly published mode so 
>> long that it fits in x-bandwidth inside of band-y. I believe that 
>> this would allow for the most innovation and bring more technological 
>> advances to our community. However this goes against tradition and 
>> maybe hard to get support for. I would also like to see more emphasis 
>> on building equipment v. buying it. It will take all kinds of people 
>> to do the things I am talking about, visionaries, programmers, 
>> electronic engineers, robotics engineers, etc...
>>
>> My 2 cents
>>
>>
>
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