Episode Details

Interview With Bill, the ham radio guy

• Wikipedia's amateur radio article (also explains why it's called "ham")

• Civil Air Patrol

• Radiosport

• DXCC call sign nomenclature

• Chirp FOSS for radio programming

• Computer aided transciever

• flrig to control bigger devices

• CQRLOG a ham radio logger

• WSJT-X helps with weak-signal communication

• Irish Radio Transmitters Society

• European Radio Amateur's Organization

• The American National Association for Amateur Radio

• The global International Amateur Radio Union

• The Field Day event on 25 June in the US

• The Dublin maker's club

• Ham Radio Village at DEF CON 30

• ISM bands - radio bands reserved for industrial, scientific and medical purposes

• fldigi turns a sound card into a modem

• The Linux in the Ham Shack podcast

• Software defined radio

• RTL SDR

• SDR++

• SDRangel

• GNU Radio

• Hamvention, a big amateur radio conference

• HP Dev One HP laptop sold with Pop!_OS

Catch up with Bill

• On the waves he's known as NE4RD

• Twitter

• You can listen to him on the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast

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