Tuesday, 30 November 2010

HF Lite and Faros

It seems as though the idea of connecting an HF Lite to a small linux box running a custom beacon monitoring program has already been done by JN1SDD. Now that someone far cleverer than me has managed to do it I'm thinking I might be able to replicate (er I mean copy) what he has done. This was something that I fancied doing but after talking to a developer of windows applications, warning me that it 'Isn't going to be easy', I had taken his advice and just kept asking / googling to see if had been done.  So there you have it.

My own personal reasons are for nothing other than it could be a fun project to build a HF lite kit and electrically switched BPF and to couple that together with a small, arm based (read cheap) computer that could be used to monitor beacons whilst using less than 60 watts of power with a laptop  or netbook and tieing up a rig that I use for HF.

Time for me to make a tidy job of wiring up the HF Lite I built last year and hope that JN1SDD is feeling generous with his secrets. Good thing is it saves me having to save up for a more expensive receiver too:-)

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