Alright boat-comm here. Still pinching my arm. Being put in the spotlight by one of my UA-cam heroes. Beats all my expectations after making my first UA-cam video. I had the recreational boater in mind as target audience, but it's nice to see that the HAM community likes it as well. I hope it can inspire HAMs to do an SDR software project of their own. It's not like super easy, but it can be done for sure!
We have a radio beacon nearby on 338 KHz but nothing on 518. I wonder why he made the software installation so complicated? That's going to deter a lot of people from trying it so he should have just made an app for Windows!
Thanks for a super interesting video. Unfortunately I felt asleep when the Linux part was there and I hope it will be available on Win or Mac OS in the future as the "world of prompt" is to much yesterday - so to speak 🙂
@bjarkekorsgaard Mac OS is based on UNIX, just as Linux is. (Think of them as cousins rather than brothers.) So if you are trying to be snarky, you just snarked yourself. And I won't even start on Wincrap.
Porting to MacOS is probably not a very big step. Win, don't know. I have no intention myself of attempting either of them. The thing is that I tried to design a system for real use on a real boat. I can assure you that if you're on a sailing yacht making a UK-BE crossing in 20kn of wind at a close reach, the last thing you want to do is to go inside and sit in front of your laptop screen.
@@boatcomm You are doing that so well and I understand how an incoming storm at sea is scary and all the things that must be taking care of before and under the storm. I deeply respect that - you must never doubt my friend 🙂 I definetely like your project big time and thanks for showing the details and sharing your thoughts!
Alright boat-comm here. Still pinching my arm. Being put in the spotlight by one of my UA-cam heroes. Beats all my expectations after making my first UA-cam video.
I had the recreational boater in mind as target audience, but it's nice to see that the HAM community likes it as well.
I hope it can inspire HAMs to do an SDR software project of their own. It's not like super easy, but it can be done for sure!
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love to see navtex still alive and useful
EOT
@Techmindsi had one if these receivers years ago but it was a ticket printer
Why not OpenWebRX?
Why?
Okay so if it is MF and 518 khz, can an esp32 sample it without rtl sdr all by itself? So can I just use esp32 and an antenna?
Oh cool. I thought NavTex was shut down last decade.
We have a radio beacon nearby on 338 KHz but nothing on 518. I wonder why he made the software installation so complicated? That's going to deter a lot of people from trying it so he should have just made an app for Windows!
I guess you have never written any software yourself ? Maybe you should give it a go and show us!
On Windows just use FLDigi.
@@slincolne Nope, I'm a network admin, not a programmer. I'll leave that to the code monkeys!
Thats what i wanted to do as a project for a while but i dont want to buy expensive stuff like rtl sdr :(
RTL SDR are about 25$/€ plus antenna
@ in first world countries with no stupid processing fees, yeah. Too precious for me though, I can’t just buy it over the internet.
@@hoteny I guess you're here to complain about any and everything. What is the purpose of your comments? Cam you even answer that question yourself ?
@@campandcook3118 Does RTL-SDR go down to 518 kHz without an external converter? I have understood, maybe incorrectly, that its lowest freq is 25 MHz.
@@campandcook3118 it uses the sdrplay api, so not possible (yet ?) with an rtl-sdr.
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Thanks for a super interesting video. Unfortunately I felt asleep when the Linux part was there and I hope it will be available on Win or Mac OS in the future as the "world of prompt" is to much yesterday - so to speak 🙂
@bjarkekorsgaard
Mac OS is based on UNIX, just as Linux is. (Think of them as cousins rather than brothers.)
So if you are trying to be snarky, you just snarked yourself.
And I won't even start on Wincrap.
Porting to MacOS is probably not a very big step. Win, don't know.
I have no intention myself of attempting either of them. The thing is that I tried to design a system for real use on a real boat. I can assure you that if you're on a sailing yacht making a UK-BE crossing in 20kn of wind at a close reach, the last thing you want to do is to go inside and sit in front of your laptop screen.
@@boatcomm You are doing that so well and I understand how an incoming storm at sea is scary and all the things that must be taking care of before and under the storm. I deeply respect that - you must never doubt my friend 🙂
I definetely like your project big time and thanks for showing the details and sharing your thoughts!
macOS and Windows have prompts, too.
@@almightyEsquilax Who didn't know that?