[amsat-bb] Well I've finally joined the 21st century.

[Howie DeFelice]

Welcome to the new century Vince. One of the first things you need to do with your  new smartphone is to get one of those shock absorbing cases to prevent the screen from cracking, not from dropping it but from throwing it in frustration 😊

I have used my Android phone (Blackberry Priv) with an RTL-SDR Dongle using both SDRoid and SDRTouch  and it works as good as when I use the dongle on any other computer. You need to make sure the phone supports USB On-The-Go so that he phone can act as a USB host. You will also need an OTG (On-The-Go) adapter cable. This plugs into the  micro USD port on the phone and provides a standard USB jack. It also has special connections on the USB micro connector to signal the phone to  swith to host mode. You can find these on ebay and other similar places for a few  dollars.

Howie
AB2S
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From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> on behalf of Mike Diehl <diehl.mike.a at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 3, 2018 10:59 PM
To: Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Well I've finally joined the 21st century.

If you’re going portable then look into Dioptra as well, it similar to Theodolite for iOS. Dioptra isn’t as feature rich as Theodolite but they both do the basics perfectly, they give you location data and you can judge minimum elevation in any direction you point it.

73,
Mike Diehl
W8LID/VE6LID

> On Aug 3, 2018, at 17:35, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL <vlfiscus at mcn.net> wrote:
>
> My 12 year old flip-phone went SK on me. I wanted
> another flip phone but they told me they would have
> to special order one. HA, so now I have an android
> smart phone. still trying to learn it.
>
> Just wondering, what apps are the favorites out there?
>
> Saw heavens above, Some PSK, SSTV, and RTTY apps. A neat
> looking audio spectrum analyzer app.
>
> Has anyone hooked up an SDR receiver to a smart phone? I
> think that is something I would like to try as everything is
> so portable, and I'd like to stay away from any app with ads.
>
> 73
> KB7ADL
>
>
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