What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?

i feel like this is a descent question i guess.

  • discodoubloon@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Check out SDR dongles if you are on PC. I’d say it’s the most interesting $20 I’ve ever spent. It uses an HDTV tuner and you can use CubicSDR (or similar) to visually see all of the signals out there.

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      2 years ago

      Agreed! I bought an SDR dongle on a whim, set it up on a raspberry pi and built a homemade spider antenna with some PVC pipe and old coax I had on hand. I started tracking aircraft with it using an easy walkthrough for setup from FlightAware. I can see and track planes from 220 miles away.

      The fact I got that setup impressed myself, so I bought another SDR dongle, built a second antenna and am tracking boats/ships with it.