RF Village Village

Welcome

The intent is to help people experience various wireless communications projects/services available to makers, hackers across the Radio Frequency (RF) Spectrum. Whether you have a (Amateur Radio) license or not, you can enjoy ways of sending and receiving RF signals. All activities are targeted at the beginner and intermediate level.

Activities

Exploring RF with SDR for the Absolute Beginner

Tuesday: 1600 EDT/2000 UTC (One Hour)

A guide on the bare minimum information required for you to quickly experience capturing, listening, and processing (decoding) signals with open source and off the shelf SDR resources. Hardware of choice will be the RTL-SDR v3.

Capture the Signal for the Absolute Beginner

Tuesday through Sunday

Arming yourself with at minimum a cheap Software Defined Radio (SDR) kit, a modest outside wire antenna, and some open source software we will post a series of challenges that involve you capturing a signal and deciphering the message to unlock the next challenge. We will focus on live signals on the HF bands and look to complement with some recorded signals for those who may not have a station setup.

Show and Tell

Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 1600 EDT/2000 UTC (One Hour)

Do you have an Open Source RF project you would like to share? You chance for 15 minutes of fame as we open the floor to hear four projects over the hour. Contact us to slot you some time at rfvillage AT cupano DOT com

HOPE 2020 Radio Net

TBD

HOPE XI is the first year we ran an Amateur Radio repeater encouraging licensed attendees to make new contacts. We tried adding an Echolink node so we could have global reach but it did not work out. This year we will look to run a one hour net.

• *HF 20m NET:* Some of us are proposing a Single Sideband Phone HF Net on 20m, possibly at 0000Z (8pm EDT, 5pm PDT).
• Look for an announcement soon. --strick

W2H Operating Schedule

To ensure maximum opportunity, we will have multiple stations across the US operating as W2H this week according to the schedule below.

Each cell indicates the Amateur Radio Bands and mode we will be using.

Digital modes (DIG) may be any number of modes. Voice will be LSB for 80 and 40 meters and USB for 20 through 10 Meters.

Successfully contact us or send date/time/band/mode you heard us and you will receive a electronic verification postcard (aka eQSL.) EMAIL your report to rfvillage AT cupano DOT com

Check this schedule often is it will be updated daily.

Time (UTC)	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 8	Day 9
0001 - 0059	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0100 - 0159	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0200 - 0259	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0300 - 0359	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0400 - 0459	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0500 - 0559	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0600 - 0659	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0700 - 0759	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0800 - 0859	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
0900 - 0959	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
1000 - 1059	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
1100 - 1159	- - -	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG	40M DIG
1200 - 1259	- - -	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG
1300 - 1359	- - -	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG
1400 - 1459	- - -	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG
1500 - 1559	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG
1600 - 1659	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG
1700 - 1759	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	- - -
1800 - 1859	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	- - -
1900 - 1959	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	- - -
2000 - 2059	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	- - -
2100 - 2159	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	- - -
2200 - 2259	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	- - -
2300 - 2359	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	20M DIG	- - -

FAQ

Don't have a radio?

No problem. Check out these freely accessible online SDRs.

What can I use to decode digital modes

Recommended cross-platform software includes FLdigi and WSJT-X. Will be updating this page on how to use the software with a radio or piping from audio from an online SDR.

Can I still decode digital signals if I am using an online SDR?

Yes. Using virtual audio cable you can pipe output of online SDR to input of digital decode software.

Questions?

Any questions, ideas, can be directed to rfvillage AT cupano DOT com