Talk:HamRadio

Notes about the video meetings

Saturday 17 October 2020, 20:00 UTC

After some technical difficulties with Big Blue Button, we moved to Zoom and succeeded in doing the planned agenda:

• Brief walk-through of Simulation example: FSK

• Presentation of gr-RTTY-basics package

   https://github.com/duggabe/gr-RTTY-basics

   https://github.com/duggabe/gr-webserver

• Audio loopback demo
• Live Over-the-Air demo

The time (20:00 UTC) proved to be too late for participants East of Greenwich, so an earlier one was scheduled for 7 November.

Saturday 7 November 16:00 UTC

The meeting followed the agenda above. There was a minor audio difficulty with the loopback, but I proceeded to present the Over-the-Air demo successfully.

View the presentation on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HmbRk-UG8Q

Saturday 12 December 2020 16:00 UTC

Subject: Transmit / Receive switching and station control
Presenter: Gavin Jacobs VE7GSJ
Agenda:

• Requirements for TX/RX switching
• VE7GSJ Solution (hardware & GNURadio Companion)
• Demo on 2m repeater

Files:

• GRC flowgraph: Media:Nb-fm-voice.grc
• Presentation slides: Media:2020DEC12.pdf

Thanks to Gavin for an excellent talk. It can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTp6vQk5MqE

TBD January 2021 16:00 UTC

Subject: Using GRC to build radios

Presenter: John Petrich W7FU

Agenda:

• Getting started with GRC
• Basic flow graph workspace organization
• Flow graph details
• Data flow problem solving
• Practical odds and ends for real radios
• Group discussion

Files:

• Media:Using_GRC_to_Build_Radios.pdf
• Media:HF_VHF_CW_SSB_transceiver_GRC_3.7.grc
• Media:NBFM_Transceiver_GRC_3.7.grc
• Media:SSB-CW_receiver_DSP_-_GRC_3.8_(annotated).grc
• Media:SSB-CW_transmitter_DSP_-_GRC_3.8_(annotated).grc

Link to Zoom presentation: TBD

Questions and Suggestions for future meetings

Questions

• The Ham Radio chat room on Matrix is available for follow-up and continuing discussion.
  • server: https://chat.gnuradio.org
  • or via the Homeserver in a matrix app: gnuradio.matrix.ungleich.cloud
  • room: #HamRadio:gnuradio.org

• Questions about meetings also can be sent to "duggabe@dcsmail.net"

Suggested topics

• Transmit hardware to operate below 50 MHz.
• amateur radio satellite service
• FreeDV
• Contact ISS
• EME - moon bounce communications
• How to implement JS8, JS8-Call, and FT8 in GR
• An in-depth walkthrough of GQRX
• DMR or P25 in detail