Hi All,
Strange question I am sure, but please bare with me.
I like to build a lot of my own gear, allows me to learn new things along the
way, it also saves a heap of money considering the prices some of the
interfaces are costing.
I have so far been using a soundcard and direct connection to
There's been some discussion about this on the linuxham list. If you buy a
small USB hub, a USB-serial adapter and a small USB audio codec, you could pack
them into a box with a single USB-B jack on one side for the computer, and a
DIN, DB9 or whatever else you have laying around on the other
Kevin,
Geeks.com, and maybe others, sells a USB sound adapter for $4.99 (
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HE-280Bcat=GDT ) which works great
here as the basis for an interface. Just make up an audio cable to your
transceiver microphone input and just use VOX for PTT. If the audio level
At 11:22 PM 12/21/2007, Andrew O'Brien wrote:
Does anyone know what frequency the XM or Sirius satellite services in
North America use ? I was thinking, if my radios had the frequency
range, that it might be interesting to hear their raw digital signal.
Andy K3UK
Satellite Digital Audio Radio
And terrestrial repeaters in the same range, a little-known fact:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM_Radio#Technology
There is also a little bit of info about the encodings and modulation
there, and in references.
73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 7:53 am, Michael Keane K1MK wrote:
At 11:22
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Joe Veldhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know about the availability or price of these components in
NZ, but in the US you can get it all from geeks.com for under $20.
-Joe, N8FQ
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:35:19 +1300
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Kevin,
An article was posted on eham.net last year that my interest you.
http://www.eham.net/articles/14023
This describes a simple interface using a small USB hub, a USB sound
card and a USB to serial converter. This could probably be
disassembled and repackaged into one small box.
Ed
