[Ground-station] Call for Comment and Critique - KA9Q-SDR readme

Phil Karn karn at ka9q.net
Sat Apr 21 21:48:58 PDT 2018


On 4/21/18 14:36, Douglas Quagliana via Ground-Station wrote:
> Hi Michelle,
> 
> Here's my first pass. Suggested changes:
> 
> change "aquire" to "acquire"
> change "unecessarily" to "unnecessarily"
> change "Curently" to "Currently"
> change ""imabalance" to "imbalance"
> change "ony" to "only"
> change "demdulator" to "demodulator"
> change ""operating moded" to "operating mode" ?
> change "recordingq" to "recording"

Yeah, I didn't run a spell checker before I shipped it off.

> 
> For the sentence containing "...this noise is only
> noticeable in without antenna noise covering it up"
> remove the "in" or rewrite.
> 
> I would suggest a slightly different frequency for the example
> "147m435" (147.435 MHz) as "435" is frequently used in the
> context of 435 MHz (at least for satellite work) and this might
> cause some confusion.

I picked 147.435 as an in-joke for hams in southern California. It's the
output of the infamous "animal house" repeater in Los Angeles. But point
taken.

> 
> In written text, the FUNcube dongle is usually written as "FUNcube"
> with the first three letters capitalized (Source:
> http://www.funcubedongle.com/)

I was wondering about this. "Funcube dongle pro+" is a bit of a mouthful
but "Funcube" by itself refers to the satellite.

> 
> Is there a link to download the software?

There will be...

Phil

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