Subj : Re: Well, I've done it...
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : Indrid Cold
Date : Sun Oct 23 2016 09:49:00

Good morning to all, first - I'm the last arrived, I see - glad to be here.

 PF> Ordered one of those BaoFeng dual-band handhelds on Amazon, should have
 PF> it in 2 days.

I've 1.000 passions, one of these is radio hacking. I can tell you that I'm
happy owner of a Baofeng UV-5R+, and it is cheap, nice-looking - I've the
yellow mod one - and pretty powerful for its price range. Just remember to
build / buy the cable to program and memorize stations to more easily browse
the common ones in your zone. I often listen to local private police, etc.

A few weeks ago I've bought a portable CB 27, HUGE but in good conditions,
and boxed. On 27 band here there's really little interesting, more than other
transportations, etc. I've got too a couple of that CB 27 portable toys from
80-90s, 'Sky Speakers' - just a toy, but the interesting thing is that in the
past, many people have modified and modded toys like this to other scopes and
frequencies.

Last thing, maybe interesting and cheap to anyone who want to try, I've setup
my remote SDR radio server on my balcony - just take one Raspberry, I'm using
the same model of the other one hosting my BBS, the 1 B - buy a cheap VHF
antenna like a discone 25-1300, a DVB USB dongle that can be used as radio
receiver with proper software on Linux and rtl_tcp daemon running on the
little board. You'll have in this way a remote, cheap and minimal consumption
listening remote radio station, that will stream VHF radio to other client
with for example SDRSharp client - for the more interesting HF, you can add
upconverter boards to shift to those bands, after buying a better antenna.
I'm a noob yet, but this world is so fascinating... I've had another SDR
station who log and track airplanes ADS-B packets, all around the place I'm
living.

 ¯¯ Indrid Cold ®®

"What do you look like?"
"It depends on who is looking."

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