![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later-than-2013 versions, if they could be cobbled together, would allow me to use my A1261 and also bookmark signals I pick up (a feature which didn’t yet exist in the 2013 version), as well as letting me physically move about to find whether I could pick up a better signal (like, say, on a hilltop at a nearby city park).Īnyway, for less than, like, $70 spent over the course of a year, it’s amazing how much fun picking up distant radio can be on older gear. I’d much prefer to use a more recent version of gqrx on Snow Lepoard (more recent than, uh, 2013, as later versions began to rely on Qt5.5, which only works with Mountain Lion onward). ![]() To listen, I’m using the current build of gqrx (via Macports) on High Sierra, on my 2013 iMac. Even though the sound quality for the other two music broadcasts have been stronger signals, it’s more the music picks of this DJ which keep making me smile (what makes me smile isn’t always whether I like the song, but rather the way a DJ picks what they play and how well they keep you on your toes). The one I’m listening to, albeit faintly at the moment, is being covered in real time on another forum called HFunderground - a forum dedicated to clandestine radio transmissions. They’ve been doing this since the mid aughts, and so long as one has line of sight to one of the satellites (there are four), one can pick them up pretty loudly and clearly. Tonight, I’m spending my time trawling the megahertz stumbling across two different kinds of pirate radio: one kind is very much like the film, Pump Up the Volume, in which (so far) three different pirate feeds have been playing music and, earlier, listening to Brazilian dudes hijack geostationary US military satellites to re-transmit back to earth. The improvement in reception quality using the Youloop, and the reduction on background static noise, is incredible. I returned after levelling up from the RTL-SDR kit-included rabbit ear antennas to a cheap, but better antenna (running about USD$30) called a Youloop - named not after YT, but after a guy named Youssef who came up with the solution. I’m back on my BS (not B S, which is “big spam”) and returned to listening to distant radio on the RTL-SDR USB adapter I bought a year ago, after reading about the post exploring a cheap way to listen to shortwave and amateur radio. ![]()
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