The SDR hardware sold online usually includes an antenna. These antenna are not suitable to pickup radio transmissions that are low powered or distant. Here is an example of NOAA weather radio that is transmitted about 15 miles from my location. This first image is with the standard antenna shipped with the SDR adapter. The signal noise ratio is narrow, meaning the noise floor is high and the signal ceiling is low. The audio is noisy and hard to hear….
Recently, someone I know purchased a network printer that was the same make and model as mine. They weren’t sure on how to setup the printer and asked for my help. The setup is not difficult, however the default settings leaves the printer open on its wireless interface. So there are more steps that are required to secure it. The challange facing us was distance, they live in another state. However, I was able to export my printer settings, which…
I saw these two videos about the Voyager spacecraft and the Golden Plate each of them contain and found they fit with the other material posted here. “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every…
A large part of phone automation uses DTMF signaling. DTMF stands for Dual Tone Multi Frequency and has been in place since the 1960s. Dialing a phone number before the advent of DTMF involved using a rotor. The spinning dial would generate a number of pulses that the phone company would interpret as a number. The phone company then placed each number in order and after a set number was reached, the phone company would place the call. We still…