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.
Rob W4ZNG says
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.
David, K2DBK says
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!
Dan KB6NU says
Well, you’re not as cute as Isabella. :)