To: DoughtyOne
I had a neighbor who was into Ham radio big time. Built his own stuff. 30 years ago he had a gizmo that would listen to specially encoded signals and write out the text. Slow as hell but it worked.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
RTTY Radio Teletype.
Run the IF of your radio into any soundcard on a computer, download the free software and viola!
Texting via airwave.
Pictures and video may be sent as well.
37 posted on
10/25/2014 10:09:22 AM PDT by
mylife
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
42 posted on
10/25/2014 10:15:38 AM PDT by
mylife
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
45 posted on
10/25/2014 10:23:03 AM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie; mylife
RTTY, 45.5 Baud, slow and power hungry. Now there are some faster digital modes being used over ham radio (and I was heavily in to them in the ‘80s & ‘90s). But low bandwidth, low power modes are king of the hill and the beauty is they work with just about any radio, and there are apps that will encode and decode them with just an Android phone as the interface device so you don't even need a PC anymore.
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