Amateur radio: Not much going on, other than the motherfucking satellite

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > Amateur radio: Not much going on, other than the motherfucking satellite

Mantle: May 15, 2004

I'm looking to get licensed to play around with packet radio to relive 1990s BBS nostalgia, but it seems expensive to get a minimally viable setup with an HT + TNC.

I have some Arduinos lying around so would something like the ham shield get me connected to anything in my city?

https://inductivetwig.com/products/hamshield

If not, what about a cheap USB SDR?

I just want to "dial up" to a packet radio node at 1200 or 9600 baud and do text chat or BBS mail.

Long term I want to be able to do something like control a remote Arduino or Raspberry Pi device over packet radio commands.

Mantle fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Apr 28, 2020

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Mantle: May 15, 2004

Why does it have to be HF though? Won't I be able to use the same protocols over VHF or UHF?

Here's a group doing packet radio networks based on LinBPQ

http://tarpn.net/t/faq/faq_tarpn_features.html

Mantle fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Apr 28, 2020

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