Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] edits to HamRadio wiki page

[Daniel Pocock]

On 04/01/16 01:04, Martin Braun wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> thanks for editing the wiki! One thing (unrelated to the fact that this
> is a page for hams) is that there's a lot of overlap with other pages.
> The installation, for example, is covered elsewhere and I'm not sure why
> you're specifically addressing Debian-jessie users.
> Things go out of date quickly, and I hate out-of-date documentation, so
> keeping redundancy low, and linking to pages where content already
> exists, is always recommended.


Debian-jessie is the current stable release. Using "-t jessie-backports"
obtains the latest version of the package from backports

Anyhow, I agree that could go to the InstallingGR page, so I've created
links to there.  Some of this had already been on the HamRadio page
before I started editing it.

> 
> I'd like to encourage people to join editing this page. The "Hardware"
> page focuses on the SDR hardware, but maybe this is a good place to talk
> about other hardware (amps, antennas).
>

My initial thought was that the HamRadio page would just provide links
to other pages.  So rather than documenting power amps and related
issues on the HamRadio page, maybe a transceiver page is needed too,
that could cover the issues for anybody building a transceiver, whether
they are a ham or not.


> Also, it seems the page is focussed on hams starting with GR. The
> reverse path is also common, and it would be nice to have this page be
> useful both to newcomers from the ham *and* the software domains.
>

That is a good point too.  I've added some notes about amateur radio at
the top.

Regards,

Daniel