The signal to noise ratio was way to low so I built this circuit around the mic.

I used the only resistors I had so my circuit has 300 ohm ones where the diagram has 10 kohm ones.

I had a pile of crap behind me in my tiny shack. I decided to make use of the space instead! I made a video too, of course.

A Panadapter is know by many names. The most scientific and correct might be “radio spectrum scope”, but the most common in the ham sphere is “panadapter” or “pan-adaptor” in my short experience. Basically, it’s a wide panoramic view of a radio spectrum. For a ham, it’s normally used in conjunction with a transceiver or a set of transceivers. It’s also common that the computer doing the spectrum visualization is connected to the transceiver via CAT or similar, so that a click in the spectrum view tunes the transceiver to the desired frequency.

Tonight I had my first QSO that wasn’t planned on Facebook! SA6CKL broke in when me and SA6ANW were talking about sound cards for websdr and had a quick chat with us. I’m so happy!

With bonus stuffs! 🙂

A cluttered desktop is no desktop for the tinkerer. Therefore; Shelves.