Comment on Building a $60 Ham Radio Data Hotspot with Baofeng UV-5R and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
solrize@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
This is interesting but FT8/JS8CALL on an FM transceiver sounds puzzling and I didn’t know anyone used those modes on those bands.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
The software distro was intended for any type of ham radio, so it does ft8 and just about everything else. Not intended for just V/UHF. Im guessing the author just name-dropped the one mode that people have heard of.
solrize@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Oh neat. I’ve been interested for a while in JS8CALL as a means of long range low power communications. That’s best with HF of course.
The classic UV-5R needs 7.2 volt power if that matters to anyone (not the usual 5V USB brick) but I’m sure users can deal with that.