Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Call for Participation FOSDEM & pre-FOSDEM Hackfest

[Kristoff]

Hi all,


First of all, thanks to Andrey for organising this.


I like to announce that, also as part of the "byteweek" event at hsbxl, 
there will also be an "amateur radio" day in hsbxl. This will be 
organised on Thursday 31/1.

The goal is the same as the "ham-radio infobooth" at FOSDEM itself: 
trying to bridge the gap between the amateur-radio community and the 
maker/hacker/open-source community. (*)

Currently planned are
- a presentation "amateur radio for hackers"
- an HF-station to demonstrate amateur radio (mainly digimodes)
- two workshops:


The two workshops try to bridge the amateur-radio community, working 
from the two directions:

- one workshop about the RTL-dongle and building a small antenna. This 
is because the RTL-dongle is for most people their first steps into 
exploring radio .

- for the other workshop, I would like to have a workshop "gnuradio for 
hams", i.e. an introduction for gnuradio for hams.
For that workshop, I am looking for somebody of the gnuradio community 
who can help with that.

I've talked to a number of other radio-amateurs about gnuradio, and 
quite a few have tried it (or at least watched videos about it), but 
most of them have quite a problem with getting started.

There is quite a few videos and other resources on gnuradio, but very 
few of them approach it from a amateur-radio perspective. Most hams I 
talked to have a problem to "transpose" their knowledge of radio and 
transceivers as "hardware" and electronic circuits into the pure 
software domain.

So, if somebody of gnuradio is interested in helping to organise this 
workshop (and help people get started to "learn to think in SDR"), that 
would be great!

From a practical side, for hardware needed for the workshop, we 
currently have a hackRF, a plutoSDR, a number of RTL-dongles and ... a 
flexradio 6500! (the station we will be using to demonstrate 
amateur-radio). (**)


Thanks in advance!


Cheerio! Kr. Bonne (ON1ARF)



(*) Also this year, we will be present at FOSDEM with a amateur-radio 
infobooth. If the location is similar to last year, it will be located 
in the AW building, just next to the entrance of where the SDR devroom 
is held)

(**) for the flexradio 6500, I found out there is a golang 
software-module to drive that tranceiver from gnuradio. Hence, it would 
be interesting for try to get gnuradio working with that rig! 100 Watt 
HF / 6 meter.




On 4/12/18 14:40, Andrej Rode wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> merely two months are left until we gather SDR hackers and friends in the Free
> Software Radio Devroom in Brussels at FOSDEM. Please submit more
> talks/events for the Devroom until December 7th here [0].
>
> For everyone who is able to attend and is arriving early (or has the
> possibility to do so): We want to invite you to the GNU Radio Hackfest
> taking place at the Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL) on *Jan 31st & Feb 1st '19*.
> The hackfest will be part of a series called "Byteweek" which
> is a yearly event organized by HSBXL in a byte-long week before
> FOSDEM. The events' page can be found here [1].
>
> Please feel free to add more ideas to the Hackfests' wiki page and if
> you are able to attend you can add yourself to the list of participants
> so we have rough idea who will be there. [2]
>
> Cheers
> Andrej (noc0lour)
>
> [0] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19
> [1] https://hsbxl.be/events/byteweek/2019/
> [2] https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Hackfest1902
>
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