8-year-old girl in Kent, England, has an out of this world story to tell her friends
This is a great story. Kjell Lindgren has been doing a great job on the ISS amateur radio station.
ICOM debuts SHF transceiver
Icom showed a mockup of this transceiver, capable of operation at up to 10 GHz at Dayton. Apparently, it got a good enough response that they’re going to start manufacturing it. How much would you pay for a rig like this?
$4 Logic Analyzer Based on Raspberry Pi Pico
In a recent EE Journal, Steven Leibson writes:
Here’s a truly inspired project. Dr. Agustín Gimenez Bernad, a Senior Developer in ServiZurich S.A. in Spain, has created one of the most brilliant hacks I’ve seen yet. He’s built a 24-bit logic analyzer that samples at 100 Msamples/sec and stores 32K samples from nothing more than a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board and some clever code. There’s a lot to learn from this project, which is posted with some very fine documentation on GitHub, but if you just need a $4 logic analyzer, there’s still a lot to be admired.
For four bucks, why wouldn’t you want to have a logic analyzer in your shack, especially if you do any microcontroller projects at all.
re the IC 905, I find this new radio fascinating. Unfortunately, there are few nearby hams and even fewer mountains here in N FL. 2m rules the roost here, simply because it has acceptable performance in muggy pine flatlands. I really want to try SHF though, and this looks like a relatively easy way to get there.
So to answer your question “How much would you pay for a rig like this?” Right now, I couldn’t really use it. However, if I plan another mountain bike trip through the Rockies, I’ll likely pick one up first if it’s in the sub-$1500-ish range. Any pre-production price estimates out there? I’m guessing no.
Gee, I made a contact with Kjell on the ISS using an HT and an Arrow antenna recently as well, and I didn’t make the news! :-)
All kidding aside, this is awesome, especially the part about how it’s inspiring her interest in space. Bravo to her dad!
Well, you’re not as cute as Isabella. :)