I would love to join this Martin Spears VE3AGS
Sent from my BlackBerry — the most secure mobile device — via the Bell Network From: krist...@skypro.be Sent: September 22, 2020 4:26 PM To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: Thoughts on forming a GNU Radio Amateur Radio monthly meeting group Hi Barry, Concerning the separate GR-ham mailing-list, I don't know if it really needs to be a "GR ham-radio" list, but what I think would be useful is a separate mailing-list to discuss signal-processing (that happen to use GNU Radio), separate of the 'discuss-gnuradio' list that is more related to questions on GNU Radio itself. I am also still learning SDR, and I have a number of question on how to decode signals (e.g. "I want to decode RTTY with 1.5 stop-bits, what's the best way to handle that half a bit at the end without impacting the clock-recovery block?") here I have been hesitant to post here in the GR list as it's more about signal-process then about GNU Radio. When talking to fellow hams who tried GNU Radio, a lot of them have the same problem: how to create a working flowgraph? What blocks to use? What do all the parameters of that block really do and what do I value should I put in there? So, yes, a separate list would be nice. .. but I don't know if a "GR Ham Radio" is the best combination. - Why only Ham radio? SDR and GNU Radio seams to me one of the best tools to promotion amateur-radio, especially if you target people from the open-source / hackerspace / maker scene. Focussing to much on amateur-radio will -I think- might mean you lose this opportunity. - For the amateur-radio community, focussing to much on GNU Radio might not be ideal neither. For me, the main topic here is SDR, signal-processing, DSP and data-communication, ... GNU Radio is only part (be it, a very big and important part) of that. Most hams start out with a simple RTL-SDR dongle and just *use* it for some project: APRS receiver, beacon receiver, to track HABs to listen to weather-satellites, listen to QO100, ... It's usually only in a later stage that they move to GNU Radio, when they are comfortable with using SDR and are interesting going the next step: learn how SDR works internally and develop SDR applications themselves. 73 kristoff - ON1ARF On 22/09/2020 14:30, Barry Duggan wrote: > Thank you for your feedback! It looks like we have a viable idea. > > Here are some additional items to consider: > > ** use BigBlueButton or Zoom > > ** have a host / moderator present a topic with a demonstration > > ** limit to one hour (especially if using BigBlueButton) > > ** a time on the weekend might be better - something like 20:00 UTC? > > ** I will put out a news entry on the gnuradio.org homepage as soon as > a kickoff seems feasible. Marcus will help "as much as he can" > > ** possibly start a GR Ham Radio mailing list like discuss-gnuradio > > Thank you for your continued interest and ideas. > > 73 and stay safe, > --- > Barry Duggan KV4FV > https://github.com/duggabe > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:13:29 +0200, Marcus Müller wrote: > > Hello Barry, hi everyone, > > I just wanted to say I was very impressed with all the activity in the > breakout session, and how productive everything was. > > I'd find it super interesting if aside from the social benefit of > ragchewing (no matter whether that happens on a video conference, via > pure voice comms, or in a text chat), people had would also take the > chance to give a short "impulse" presentation on what they think would > be interesting for the rest; for example, I think Barry's digital > modulations tutorials would be extremely interesting for a lot of people. > > But also, a bit on stuff like (brainstorming here) "how to make use of > the new digital predistortion module to get the most out of my system", > "I've invented a digital mode, and you'll never guess what happened > next", "how it took me a month to figure out why I wasn't seeing any > satellites and why I hate storks", "SDR in club education settings", …. > > Nothing that takes 2 hours, but something to get discussion off the > ground, and then if discussion shows people like where things are going, > go deeper into it. > > Cheers, > Marcus >