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Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)


Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

I found that a very exciting experience – trying to make so many new things really pushed me to leave my comfort zone, to be creative, and not to get sucked into rabbit holes too deep. We looked for it together for half an hour, jumping over small rivers and crawling through the woods, while he gave me a lot of tips related to hunting sondes. But I found a neat little program called “fldigi”: You can pipe audio to it (single side band modulation), and then if you pick the correct settings (see screenshot), it happily transcribes the messages!

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