Ed W8EMV @w8emv@radiosocial.org
Radio interests: AM DX, SDR, ADS-B, Skywarn.
Also @emv
- Location
- EN82dg
- Call sign
- W8EMV
Nice shout out to W8TAM in this amateur radio podcast about "elmering".
https://www.kb6nu.com/no-nonsense-amateur-radio-podcast-2-being-an-elmer/
from Dan KB6NU Ann Arbor and Tom KB5RF Austin.
Today is Field Day, an emergency preparedness exercise for amateur radio operators! The goal: set up a temporary station, and then make as many contacts as possible over 24 hours.
https://www.arrl.org/Field-Day/
Check the Field Day Locator to find a station near you. Many stations are set up like an "open house" and welcome visitors.
If you make contact with K2HAX, let them know that Rey said hello :)
Listening to 40 meters via the SDR run by KB8SPI in Farmington Hills, MI. Some atmospheric noise evident. No sign of #FieldDay2018 contesters yet, but you know they will be there before too long.
Found a group of people doing a nice long ragchew on 7150, and I can hear most of the conversation, some participants weaker than others.
Listening to R Havana Cuba on 6000 kHz via http://misdr.duckdns.org/?f=6000.00amz5 run by KB8SPI in Farmington Hills, MI. Good strong signal at 0604 UTC.
R Havana has always had good Cuban music and interesting news.
Looking forward to Field Day! in Ann Arbor, we're meeting at the airport. Potluck meal Saturday night with BBQ from Thom W8TAM. I think I'll bring my portable 1090 Mhz ADS-B monitoring setup and see what I can do with a clear view of the sky.
Links
* http://www.arrl.org/field-day
* https://w8rp.org/field-day-2018/
This is super interesting - "$100 broadcasters, how they do it" by James Cridland. All about various small-scale internet and digital radio projects run on tiny budgets with very simple hardware and usually open-source software.
https://www.radiomagonline.com/industry/100-broadcasters-how-they-do-it
Listening to the K8MDH repeater in Laurium, MI (Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.P.) via Broadcastify https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/13447
Severe rains and flooding in the western UP and more rain to come.
Area frequency list is http://kcra-mi.net/repeater/ . There are a few Echolink nodes listed there. Is there a protocol for remoting in to an emergency situation in progress.?Broadcastify is pretty nice for just monitoring.
Lots of Houghton public safety feeds offline.
I've got a signal here I can't figure out what it is, despite spending some quality time with sigidwiki.com :
https://www.nivex.net/images/tmp/mystery-signal-454337500.wav
Audio is recovered from FM demodulator.
Hoping @rey or some of the #hamradio folk might know what it is.
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I think I have the first draft of my slides for the Mastodon and the Federated Web presentation. Need to give it a day to rest so I can look at it fresh.
And then to present it on Tuesday at #mug.
Hope to see you there, either in person or online:
Learn more at http://mug.org
(And yes, this will be streamed)
A view of WCBN 88.3 FM streaming on my Mac through #gqrx from Alexandru OZ9AEC with rtl_tcp and a @Nooelec NESDR Mini 2 #sdr providing the spectrum from a Pi 3. Now playing, "Sounds of the Subcontinent".
My antenna is perfectly awful though, so the only stations that come through on broadcast FM are the very strongest ones.
Monitoring notes for the local monthly siren testing net.
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/w8emv/2018/06/monitoring-notes-washtenaw-siren-net-june-2-2018.html
A particularly useful site for public safety radio monitoring is Broadcastify, and their top feeds page at https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/top can point you to activity in progress.
I wish there were a way to filter the top list to only amateur radio. As it stands the most likely condition for using Broadcastify for ham band monitoring is during #skywarn nets.
There are three SDR's in Hawaii. I'm fond of the one at http://72.235.216.139:8073/ run by NH6XO.
Some of local AM stations play Hawaiian music, and a local sports station has LA Dodgers baseball.
