Ham Radio

When I attended the Teacher's Institute ad the ARRL, one of the items included in our swag bag was an Software Defined Receiver, specifically the SDRPlay RSP1A. Binaries for Windows and Mac OSX typically work "out of the box", but not so with the Linux version. The SDRPlay folks posted an excellent video tutorial covering the process of installing the necessary drivers and libraries, and building CubicSDR from source. Here's a summary.

I've been a licensed amateur radio operator since 2015, and Mac user since 1997. The combination of these two meant that when I was looking for a logging application for my ham radio contacts, my options were limited, which is fine since MacLoggerDX is such a great application.

So this is fun.

I use the present tense because it's already been a fairly long-term project and the end isn't quite within sight. I've been working with Arduino microcontrollers for a few years now. Becoming a licensed ham radio operator has opened up a whole new world of applications for these little gems. I even bought the book "Arduino for Ham Radio", published by ARRL and authoerd by George Popiel, KW5GP. This is a guy after my own heart.