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What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by hai@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jawa21@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

RTL-SDR is basically a way of using a digital device as a broadband radio. That is an oversimplification, but that is the idea. There are cheap USB devices out there that will turn a PC into a ham radio receiver (among a really wide range of other bands like weather satellites). I have no idea how they are doing it with Android, however. Maybe using the phone's antenna.

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oooh, how neat! Off to do web searches for more info I go!

[–] jawa21@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I almost hate to recommend it, but r/rtlsdr is the place to go.

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate that! & I totally understand. Unfortunately, they really cornered the market for quite a few niche little hobbies' communities that used to be more filled out with independent and individual forums and sites before they took over. Such is life, eh?

[–] jawa21@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Indeed, but everything you need is there. And I'll throw one in for free and it is awesome to get started: http://websdr.org/

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you want to start just listening right away, for free, there's WebSDRs accross the world at websdr.org

Firefox is recommended due to sound issues in Chrome on some web SDRs.

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Sweeeet! Thank you so much! That was super fun to play with and I'm looking forward to trying it out again another day :)