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See Daniel Pocock's blog [[https://danielpocock.com/building-loop-antenna-sdr-shortwave-ham-oscal17|building an antenna and receiving ham and shortwave stations]] for a more detailed list of components and links to purchase them. See Daniel Pocock's blog [[http://web.archive.org/web/20200310102828/https://danielpocock.com/building-loop-antenna-sdr-shortwave-ham-oscal17/|building an antenna and receiving ham and shortwave stations]] for a more detailed list of components and links to purchase them.

Demo Ideas

These are ideas for giving a ham radio demo with Debian packages, either for a talk or operating a table at an event.

License required?

Topic

Packages

Hardware requirement

N

FM radio (music)

gqrx-sdr rtl-sdr

RTL-SDR dongle + small antenna

For transmit

Ham 2m or 70cm band

gqrx-sdr rtl-sdr

RTL-SDR dongle + small antenna

N

Shortwave broadcast (AM)

gqrx-sdr rtl-sdr

RTL-SDR dongle, upconverter, ATU, HF antenna

For transmit

Ham HF/shortwave (SSB)

gqrx-sdr rtl-sdr

RTL-SDR dongle, upconverter, ATU, HF antenna

N

Aircraft beacons (ADS-B)

What to bring

  • pre-install all Debian Hams Pure Blend packages?
  • a couple of USB sticks with the Debian Hams Live image, to run on borrowed laptops so you don't have to leave your own laptop at the booth
  • Kensington lock cables to secure equipment
  • spare laptop to leave at the booth
  • rigs with detachable microphones, so you can remove the microphone when no licensed ham is at the booth
  • use ?PowerPole for DC power at the booth, it is also used as a standard now by groups like WICEN, RACES and RAYNET-UK

  • RTL-SDR dongles
  • Ham-it-up or similar up-convertor
  • portable Antenna Tuning Unit (ATU), e.g. MFJ-971
  • shortwave / HF wire antenna
    • string for attaching the antenna
  • various RF patch leads with SMA, PL-259 and N type connections
  • portable VHF/UHF antenna, e.g. small discone
  • handheld transceiver
  • mobile/portable transceivers, e.g. Yaesu FT-857D
  • banners with your callsign and/or Debian Hams logo

See Daniel Pocock's blog building an antenna and receiving ham and shortwave stations for a more detailed list of components and links to purchase them.