https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/18/fifty-things-you-can-do-with-a-software-defined-radio/
It's radio Jim but not as we know it…
It seems that Meshtastic is really taking off in South East London with a cluster of nodes appearing between Greenwich and Croydon.
It’s caught the attention of G1HIG and 2E0ULA along with quite a few others in the area as you can see from the screenshot !
Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!
A one-stop-shop for information about SSTV !
this should be phun !
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The gummint is buying us a 5G/6G satellite network to play with !
Useful little tool for offgrid.
PAT is a winclient like email system which can work over the ax.25 protocol.
https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx?tab=readme-ov-file#about-rpitx
I have it on good authority that if you connect a piece of wire to pin 4 of the gpio connector (length of wire determined by frequency of course) your Pi can transmit.
This Github link will take you to the software and the video in the previous post shows you how to install and run it on a Raspberry Pi
Have fun !
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