Antique radio receivers retain a significant charm, and though they do not carry huge value today they were often extremely high quality items that would have represented a significant investment for their original owners. This guy acquired just such a radio, a Philco 37-11 made in 1937, and since it was it[sic] a bit of a state he set about giving it some updated electronics. Stripping away the original electronics, he gave it a modern amplifier with Bluetooth capabilities, and a Raspberry Pi.
One of the coolest applications for a Pi I've seen.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:06PM (1 child)
Damn that is very cool. I would love to try something like that as an audio soft clipper. it sounds like the performance would be really good for transients which are a frequent headache.
Would you be interested in joining a chat system for a digital radio club? It's focused on getting fully qualified open source ham radio nerds together into one place in a way that's familiar for us. There's another guy there that does DSP professionally, a few competent programmers, and a couple power users / hobbiest programmers. It's a nice place to find people who have a clue to talk about topics exactly like your noise blanker. I know other people in there would go "that is really cool" and basically everyone in the club has big dreams of SDR. I can get you details outside of Soylent news if you like.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday July 09 2019, @10:39PM
Thanks for your kind words.
You can contact me by going to section 39 [ourtimelines.com] on that page. Edit your subject accordingly.
Might be fun to lurk a bit in your group. 😊
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