Shortly before starting amateur radio, I became interested in Software Defined Radio (SDR) due to various expectations like being able to visualize signals in the air, essentially “seeing” the FM radio broadcasts I’d listened to for years while tuning in. Before long, I bought a Chinese RTL-SDR radio with a USB interface and started using […]
ABeS Aprs Beacon Sender Project
ABeS APRS Beacon Sender is a Python-based software project designed to automatically send the location of radio repeaters—or even individual operators—to APRS servers over the internet. The idea came to life while I was running an EchoLink system for the Turkish Amateur Radio Association Kapaklı Branch. Since the system was online 24/7 and functioned solely […]
Sending APRS to the International Space Station (ISS)
When I first saw Murat Şen‘s YouTube video titled “Make Your Voice Heard by the International Space Station” back in 2018 or 2019, I remember asking myself, “Could I do this too?” Even though the idea popped into my mind from time to time over the next 6–7 years, I couldn’t fully focus on it […]