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Building a $60 Ham Radio Data Hotspot with Baofeng UV-5R and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W -- seen on nos.lol, relay.primal.net, relay.damus.io, alienos.libretechsystems.xyz, nostr.mom, thecitadel.nostr1.com, relay.nostr.band
  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    This is interesting but FT8/JS8CALL on an FM transceiver sounds puzzling and I didn’t know anyone used those modes on those bands.

    • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      The software distro was intended for any type of ham radio, so it does ft8 and just about everything else. Not intended for just V/UHF. Im guessing the author just name-dropped the one mode that people have heard of.

      • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Oh neat. I’ve been interested for a while in JS8CALL as a means of long range low power communications. That’s best with HF of course.

        The classic UV-5R needs 7.2 volt power if that matters to anyone (not the usual 5V USB brick) but I’m sure users can deal with that.