JDKelley
Just call me "Sparks." Or "Lucky."
That I should probably post this by way of an introduction to everyone. Call me "Sparks" - it's a military thing...
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I'm coming from PRO-2006 units, and old Air Force radio tech (just call me "Sparks." I was an Air Force radioman in a previous life, and it stuck as a hobby. Gotta get my ham ticket, tho, I'm just a scannist and SWL'er - and have been for about 45 years, going back to a 10-channel Bearcat and a handful of crystals...)
I've been perusing the fora here, got quite a few tabs open, and most of them will end up as .pdfs or .rtf docs, depends on whether they have graphics in or not (probably .rtf docs, they'll be smaller.) And, thence, part of my "master manual." Yah - I'm also the guy that was looking for the official Sentinel manual.
I'm figuring this thing out alongside another embedded SDR toy - the Malahit, that I got out of Russia - www.malahiteam.com. It's an interesting little piece, and Georgiy has been helpful about answering my stupid questions - and I've been perusing that manual rather heavily as well. It's a well-made little bit of kit, he ships it with "final assembly" undone (you need to install batteries - 18650 - and screw it together) to make it easier to get through Customs.) It answers different purposes than the SDS does, I think, which is why I have both - and a TinySA to round out the kit, for signal-sniffing.
But, it is still very much a learning curve. I'll try to not ask too many stupid questions without looking for the answers first!![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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I'm not up on the new tech, and I'm still figuring out SDR-type stuff, but I'm still willing to help in any way I can - even if it's something like going through threads and collating information to make instruction sheets or something like that. (I'm used to doing tutorials, I'm told I can take abstruse subject and knock them down to accessible terms, and I'm semi-retired, so I've got time. I don't get hired to break into places anywhere near as much as I used to.
I've stopped advertising, I just work for a very select set of clients now. Either interesting jobs, or jobs that require that I travel to places I'd like to go.)
(ADD'L - The Malahit fills a somewhat different role than the SDS100, so I don't regret getting both. How much does it cost? Depends on how the ruble is doing against hte dollar when you buy it. He makes these to order, so it takes a bit to get the thing. The audio processor is a different story, apparently, that's more difficult to source a few things for, or there's a minimum quantity, or something, so he waits until there's interest in enough units, then he takes & fulfills orders en masse.)
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I'm coming from PRO-2006 units, and old Air Force radio tech (just call me "Sparks." I was an Air Force radioman in a previous life, and it stuck as a hobby. Gotta get my ham ticket, tho, I'm just a scannist and SWL'er - and have been for about 45 years, going back to a 10-channel Bearcat and a handful of crystals...)
I've been perusing the fora here, got quite a few tabs open, and most of them will end up as .pdfs or .rtf docs, depends on whether they have graphics in or not (probably .rtf docs, they'll be smaller.) And, thence, part of my "master manual." Yah - I'm also the guy that was looking for the official Sentinel manual.
I'm figuring this thing out alongside another embedded SDR toy - the Malahit, that I got out of Russia - www.malahiteam.com. It's an interesting little piece, and Georgiy has been helpful about answering my stupid questions - and I've been perusing that manual rather heavily as well. It's a well-made little bit of kit, he ships it with "final assembly" undone (you need to install batteries - 18650 - and screw it together) to make it easier to get through Customs.) It answers different purposes than the SDS does, I think, which is why I have both - and a TinySA to round out the kit, for signal-sniffing.
But, it is still very much a learning curve. I'll try to not ask too many stupid questions without looking for the answers first!
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I'm not up on the new tech, and I'm still figuring out SDR-type stuff, but I'm still willing to help in any way I can - even if it's something like going through threads and collating information to make instruction sheets or something like that. (I'm used to doing tutorials, I'm told I can take abstruse subject and knock them down to accessible terms, and I'm semi-retired, so I've got time. I don't get hired to break into places anywhere near as much as I used to.
(ADD'L - The Malahit fills a somewhat different role than the SDS100, so I don't regret getting both. How much does it cost? Depends on how the ruble is doing against hte dollar when you buy it. He makes these to order, so it takes a bit to get the thing. The audio processor is a different story, apparently, that's more difficult to source a few things for, or there's a minimum quantity, or something, so he waits until there's interest in enough units, then he takes & fulfills orders en masse.)