Hi,
This is outstanding! I can see that there should be a lot of interest in the blind hams community around this. I¡¯m definitely not radio poor myself, I¡¯ve got a couple of them, but I¡¯m absolutely interested. I¡¯m thinking a pretty low-cost, modest station consisting of a SBitX with one of the N7DBC designed automatic antenna tuners would be a nice station. Exciting stuff. I¡¯m in.
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On Jul 7, 2022, at 8:08 PM, Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox@...> wrote:
Buddy,
I have tried making the radio eyes free to the extent that I can do everything from the keyboard, except to read back the settings. That will happen soon enough.
The commands code is right now a big pot of entangled top ramen noodles (ie along if-then-else switch). Once we go gold on the sbitx v1, I will refactor the code to make it more readable.
We will also have to add scripting feature to this.
My idea is that one should be able to telnet to the radio and use the digital modes.
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2022, 11:41 PM Buddy Brannan <buddy@...> wrote:
So I¡¯ve started reading the manual, and this looks very exciting. For one thing, the possibility of rolling an eyes-free interface, with already available TTS or morse readout, is pretty exciting. Since everything can be controlled with a keyboard (numeric keypad maybe?) and mouse (ick¡I¡¯ll forego that!), and it¡¯s all GNU/Linux underneath, well, that lends itself to a lot of possibilities. So, glad to see this is getting closer. When I first saw the $500 projected cost, I was a little hesitant, thinking¡oh¡for an HF only QRP radio, that might be a bit more than I want to spend, but¡am I reading this correctly? 50 watts? If so, I can see this as definitely more attractive for more people. 50 watts isn¡¯t far off the usual 100 watts for all practical purposes anyway.
Exciting stuff!
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Email: buddy@...
Mobile: (814) 431-0962
On Jul 7, 2022, at 12:47 PM, Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox@...> wrote:
I see no point in using an eprom. Rpi is a computer running linux. We just open and write to a file on the sd card.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022, 10:07 PM Doug W <dougwilner@...> wrote:
I have not tried it myself but I have read of others using an AT24C256 chip to add eeprom. There is even an I2C module if you don't want to roll your own
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