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Building a $60 Ham Radio Data Hotspot with Baofeng UV-5R and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W -- seen on nos.lol, relay.primal.net, relay.damus.io, alienos.libretechsystems.xyz, nostr.mom, thecitadel.nostr1.com, relay.nostr.band
  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Oh neat. I’ve been interested for a while in JS8CALL as a means of long range low power communications. That’s best with HF of course.

    The classic UV-5R needs 7.2 volt power if that matters to anyone (not the usual 5V USB brick) but I’m sure users can deal with that.