Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio Over the past nine months or so I've been working on a project that I've called Bald Yak. If you're unfamiliar, the Bald Yak project aims to create a modular, bidirectional and distributed signal processing and control system that leverages GNU Radio. One of the, admittedly many, challenges I've set myself is getting data from a radio receiver into GNU Radio across the network, preferably the Internet. Today I can report a small step in the right direction and frankly I can't contain my excitement. Now, I need to acknowledge that I'm geeking out here. It's hard to contain excitement when you find something that seems to speak your language. It also means that I realise that I run the very real risk that I'm going to lose you before you get to why this is a milestone, so let's put that up front before I explain why. To whet your appetite, yes, you can access a KiwiSDR across the Internet and record raw data from it and control the process externally. This is a very big chunk of