Hacking a Ham Radio

hackaday.com 28 Feb '13, 7pm

Hacking a Ham Radio

Perhaps type acceptance would be an issue. As hams the FCC does allow us to build or modify our own devices but we aren’t allowed to market them without type acceptance. I’m thinking you would have to take a two-micro approach. One controls the transmit vfo/power while the other is the user interface. The user-interface one is open and can be hacked at will by the owner. No matter what values it sends on to the transmitter controler micro though it will not do anything outside of certain parameters. Something I have been thinking about though is an open protocol for controling a radio via computer, micorcontroler, etc… As part of the protocol the radio would ‘tell’ the computer what controls it has, what their ranges are, etc… It wouldn’e exactly define a user interface but it would tell that this control is volume, this one controls a vfo, etc… If connecting to a computer...

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@Amateurradio » 05 Mar '13, 10pm
RT @sethlavinder: [link]
@VE4BBWARC » 05 Mar '13, 3am
[link] #hamr
@LA3ZA » 03 Mar '13, 9pm
Out with the native controller of a Baofeng UV5R handheld U/VHF and in with an Arduino [link] [link]
@joey_stanford » 02 Mar '13, 4am
Hacking a Ham Radio [link] via @zite
@kb6nu » 02 Mar '13, 12am
This is very cool. RT @Radio_2_Radio: Amateur Radio: Hacking a Ham Radio [link]
@geeknik » 01 Mar '13, 11am
Hacking a cheap Baofeng UV5R #hamradio [link]
@wa5ray » 01 Mar '13, 7am
Hacking a Ham Radio: For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn't have an amateur radio lice... [link]
@moreaboutart10 » 01 Mar '13, 4am
Hacking a Ham Radio: For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn't have an amateur radio licens... [link]
@Hamradio_Ticker » 28 Feb '13, 8pm
RT @M0ZAI: Hacking the Baofeng uv - 5r - [link] #hamr
@M0ZAI » 28 Feb '13, 8pm
Hacking the Baofeng uv - 5r - [link] #hamr
@IoTFeed » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
Hacking a Ham Radio: For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn’t have an amateur radi... [link] #iot
@GeekHugger » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
Hacking a Ham Radio [link] via @hackaday
@MossadBlackWolf » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
Hacking a Ham Radio: For Christmas, [Lior] received a Baofeng UV5R radio. He didn’t have an amateur radio lic... [link]
@SchmartBoard » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
For you Hams out there: [link] [link]
@hackaday » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
New post: Hacking a Ham Radio [link]
@equinoxefr_org » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
"Hacking a Ham Radio" [link]
@robofun » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
Hacking a Ham Radio [link]
@NT7S » 28 Feb '13, 7pm
Hacking a Ham Radio [link]