Author: skullkey
The ZS6BVR “End-fed” “SlimJim” as receiving Antenna for the SDR Receiver
This antenna is designed to give you 3dB gain over a dipole and its omni-directional for use with your SDR receiver Its so easy to make antennas with different lengths I used Banana sockets so you can make many antennas of different lengths for the different bands giving you gain as well as a frequency…
Read MoreRound 2 of 3d printer builds kicks off today
Peter has been working day and night to prepare for round 2 of the 3d printer builds. The first round saw most people completing PrintrBots and it seems that the Ecksbot has found some favour in this round. There is also a couple of custom builts and hackers were given these four options when enrolling:…
Read MoreRTLSDR
We ordered these Videomate U620F through PC Palace (ask for Pierre) in a group buy – 16 units for R180 per unit. In order to receive Tuks FM 107.2 MHz using gnuradio, I followed these steps: Installed gnuradio using this script: wget http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio && chmod a+x ./build-gnuradio && ./build-gnuradio Then followed the instructions here: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr…
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