Friday, May 12, 2017

gqrx stuff

with gqrx as my main demodulator, my load average hovers around 7.50
and im missing packets from the netsdr as a result.
with spectravue under Wine emulation i never had load averages that high, at least the system is usable.
dont know if the volk test helped.
ive spent a vast majority of my time lately on getting to know gqrx, and i have figured out how to import a frequency list into its bookmarks, complete with color highlighting.
more logs this weekend.

Thursday, May 11, 2017

small hiatus for a few days, kali upgrade broke wine so spectravue wont work, using gqrx

trying to code up a remote control utility so i can finally have a scanner run on an SDR.

'expect' is stalling, 'nc' wont deal with carriage returns well.

Friday, May 5, 2017

6905 new guy "gabby" 5 may 0058utc

really leans the mic and goes on and on.
he is now Gabby. s6, minor fading. the other guy? who knows, i was stoked to nail a new contestant. gabby has a tell in his transmission. at the end before he unkeys the mic theres a mid-pitched warble in the audio before terminating.
other guy id'd as Humberto!!



local overpwered pesskie seen on 7150 in a fun turn of events -- 5 -5-17 1700utc

felipe hits the ham bands typical s9+20, no callsign, what could i expect. he mentioned he was mobile, btw. that much power in a car or truck. yeesh.

Saturday, April 22, 2017

6945 portuguese (brazilian) outbanders 042217 0050UTC

2 guys, yet unid'd.
adding them to the catalog.
guy 1, very brazilian, s8-ish, good punchy audio, call him Punchy Gracie.
guy 2, s3, flat audio. portuguese, not so much brazilian as Punchy is, lets call him Flat Pat.
they both key over each other, apparently not knowing radio etiquette. must be new, not much "roger" or "cambio" to signal the other with to say "go ahead, im done".

felipe s8 big signal on 6950L, 0029

looking to chat, calling "hoooola, hoooola" at 0029