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I have a QPSK & BPSK packet radio link to several other stations via the QO-100 satellite narrowband transponder, using a couple of Pluto SDRs and in some cases a mix/match of RTL SDR dongles and 70cm radios with transverters.

Only a small group (4 so far) doing it, but we can be heard on the WEBSDR hosted at Goonhilly Earth station[1]

Due to small dish sizes on RX (10GHz) we are keeping it simple and open at 1200 BPSK and QPSK 2400 with IL2P[2][3] for FEC+RS robustness, and not even close to the 2.7Khz max permitted bandwidth.

[1] https://eshail.batc.org.uk/nb/ - 10489630 USB

[2] https://tarpn.net/t/il2p/il2p.html

[3] https://eindhoven.space/il2p

Jester - Stardust Otamatonies https://youtu.be/dfFVxWEwhI0?si=r-ZtYmgF1ADp0k8e

Aww yiss. Nederkunst.

Thats amazing and also kinda wtf because drunken parties are the norm, so cultural alcoholism is a bonus.

The Modarchive[0] is still around, too. The reviewer’s (shared) password used to be since1996

[0]http://modarchive.org

(This message has been read 1 times so far in this BBS).

Path: !CX2SA!N6RME!KE6JJJ!KQ6UP!AA6HF!N2NOV!W4BFB!N0NJY!WA3WLH!W9GM!WA2UET! !K5DAT!W0ARP!KF5JRV!

We’re still using their cousins on amateur radio lol

I’ve felt this way for a considerable time too. In retrospect, it has now been ten years and yet still nothing has really changed, which I am kinda glad.

A friend of mine is building a Raspberry Pi ISA board so I’ll have to ping him on how it’s going.

I had one of these type of jackets and quickly found that they set off IR-controlled hand wash taps in the toilet facilities at a certain airport.

10/10, would recommend for very clean hands.

Stunning stuff. The dark sunspot in the foreground and the one behind the tangle of plasma is intruiging.

Keeping an eye on this http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/fullday/ for the effects on the HF radio band, it might be quite interesting.

I’ve created a portal in bash to allow HF access to emergency web content, here’s a demo of it going 900km loading HN.

https://youtu.be/5CN1nD_xciU

This is mild pedantry from me, sorry.

Fortunately, the 10m band these days has a reach of up to 11000km due to the solar activity. You are quite right that during LOS conditions it’s limited to the elevation of the antenna.

Its relatively small antenna needed (5m dipole) and can be used to access some distances, just not ones that might be in the same country as origin because of the skip dead zone from the ionospheric refraction angle. Which depending how it might be used, could be useful.

The general rule of thumb is to check the MUF Rating at the time of day collected from ionosondes such as that on https://prop.kc2g.com/

Digital Data Comms if needed:

Dial frequency 14.1023 USB

- at 1000Hz and 2000Hz for AFSK.300 (two channels for multiple access) - at 1500Hz for VARA or ARDOP OFDM

EMCOM Services available: Winlink RMS gateways, APRS HF Relays.

Manned Stations prepared on this frequency

IW2OHX - Italy Winlink EI2GYB-5 - Ireland - Winlink PE1RRR-8 - Netherlands - Winlink

It’s not much but it’s a network nexus with an insane number of backbone links for redundancy.

Software and setup tutorial:

https://eindhoven.space/radio-experiments/packet-radio/qtter...

My time to shine- this is for anyone concerned about ham operation in Ukraine

https://eindhoven.space/2022/10/08/ham-radio-usage-in-ukrain...

The programmer friends' idea, unfortunately, was beaten by modarchive.org many years ago.

Sorry about that :-) Glad the API has come I handy though, your thing looks very nice, but “mobile bad desktop good”? Get with the times ;)

This is mine:

https://github.com/pe1rrr/packet-scriptlets/tree/main/games

Mod4Win followed shortly, dazzling us with native audio output on our 3.1 windows boxes

The chip scene has indeed grown in scale since the 2000s began, I shared a few beers with the guy who did the Commodordion and he’s one of many reaching youth with what I think many have come to consider modern folk.

Battle of the Bits is a unique and wonderful community plugged to the core by chiptune. I do recall their logo nicely visible on the reddit r/place thing recently which says a lot about the number of participants chipping away!

Give a few days until the tsunami of hackerhearts abates and give signing up/in a shot and upload them.

The folks are always open looking for new crew too to help in the upkeep such as screening the upload queue etc. Drop a line to Saga_Musix, open to pretty much anyone. There’s a huge backlog still. Who doesn’t love listening to up and coming modscene stars. Especially their very first ones! ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)

This is essentially how I put together this gem: https://eindhoven.space/demoscene-stuff/joke-music/stardust-...

Achieved by deleting the lead instrument from the module and playing it with my own orchestra of otamatones.

In milkytracker FT2 clone it is possible to draw your own samples to create basic instruments, most of the stuff for instruments is indeed samples often ripped from other modules as is a common practice to get a library of sounds going.

Additionally old competitions used to provide packs of samples and 1 hour to make a composition on which it was then voted, another nice way to spend an evening and get some free instruments :)

Thanks for the hug of death HN :-)

Unfortunately the folks taking care of the hosting aren’t yet aware of the problem as it is sleepy time here in EU.

In the mid 2000s I built the majority of what you see now but it has generally been out of my hands for a number of years after Scenesat demoscene radio took on the hosting keeping it alive with their love and the generous public’s donations, so that I could pursue other interests.

After keeping the fires going for the better part of 20 years it is tradition to pass the baton.

It was nice to see it posted here- The former modarchive.com that I helped support until it’s admin moved on was slashdotted back in the day with similar effects. I’m personally pleased to see my incarnation also get the hugs.

There’s an awful Easter egg site re-theme on an ancient test page located https://modarchive.org/?mp3