Building a $60 Ham Radio Data Hotspot with Baofeng UV-5R and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (njump.me)
from n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 16:55
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Toes@ani.social on 20 Oct 17:37 next collapse

What a crazy looking url.

lnxtx@sopuli.xyz on 20 Oct 23:01 collapse

Because:

njump is a HTTP Nostr gateway that allows you to browse profiles, notes and relays. It is an easy way to preview a resource and open it with your preferred client. The typical use of njump is to share content outside the Nostr world, where the nostr: schema is not yet recognized.

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solrize@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 20:49 next collapse

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 on 20 Oct 23:27 collapse

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 on 21 Oct 00:02 collapse

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.

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 21 Oct 00:37 collapse

This explains surprisingly little. How does it compare to something like meshtastic or reticulum?