How to attract new hams (was Whitebox Handheld Software Radio Kit)

[Karl W4KRL]

Maitland,

Thanks for these interesting links. Aside from Chris Testa's impressive
technical accomplishment, his explanation of why he got interested in ham
radio is very instructive. He starts around minute 6 in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrbmlP1M1AI

There are lessons to be learned here on how we can attract new hams. Kits
are important and so is Internet access.

73 Karl W4KRL

-----Original Message-----
From: Maitland Bottoms [mailto:aa4hs at amrad.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:45 PM
To: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Whitebox Handheld Software Radio Kit

I'm hoping everyone on Tacos has been working hard on a "homebrew
battery-powered radio computer project". KD2BMH has - check out these links:

>From humble beginnings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnZtlUWK7dg

Talk at DCC2012: Practical Handheld SDR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrbmlP1M1AI

If you didn't see Chris Testa's presentation at Dayton, slides at:
http://www.slideshare.net/testac/whitebox-hamvention2013

His project is being developed in public:
https://github.com/testaco/whitebox/

At Dayton he had several disassembled cell phones and a power meter on his
circuit board as props to talk about low power and device architectures.

-Maitland